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(All rights reserved.) s.004 ae E . aa Ae tee DL GS Gt Pa as as San ae as tpl bees ihe rn. 5 ly A 24) ‘ y ' ay rm ia, pi we w oe ret CATALOGUE OF THE NOCEUID & IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. BY Sir GEORGE F, HAMPSON, Bart. ala “i / 43 | LONDON: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. SOLD BY LONGMANS & Co., 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. B. QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY; DULAU & CO., 37 SOHO SQUARE, W.; KEGAN PAUL & Co., PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD; AND AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) CROMWELL ROAD, S.W. 1908, PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. PREFACE Tur subject of Vol. LV. of the ‘ Catalogue of Moths’ is the classifi- cation of the Agrotine, consisting of about 1200 known species and constituting the first of the fifteen subfamilies into which the very large and dominant family Noctwidw, with some ten to twelve thousand described species, is divided. The family has two main divisions—the Trifid group of subfamilies with vein 5 of the hind wing obsolescent, inhabiting chiefly the temperate regions and with comparatively few species in the tropical and subtropical zones and those chiefly found in mountainous districts; and the Quadrifid group with vein 5 of the hind wing fully developed, very largely represented in the torrid zones and with few species in the temperate regions and on mountain- ranges. The difficulty of dealing with the Trifid group is greatly increased by the great variability of many of the species and by the large number of species described from Central Asia and North America, the limits of variation and range of which are very imperfectly known. In the Asiatic species Staudinger and Rebel’s Catalogue has been to a large extent followed; but some of the forms treated in it as varieties will doubtless in the future be found to be distinct species, and some treated as species will be considered to be local vi PREFACE. races or varieties, when the distribution of the forms is better known. In the N. American species Prof. J. B. Smith’s most excellent work with his clearly defined genera and species, as published in his Catalogue of N, American Noctwide and revisions of many groups of genera, has been almost entirely followed, its latest form, published in Dr. Harrison G. Dyar’s Catalogue of N. American Lepidoptera, having appeared too recently to be available for reference in the present volume. The range and limits of variation of the species from the Western States are, however, very imperfectly known, and of the very numerous described species many only exist as one or two specimens in scattered Collections in the States, so that no specimens were available for examination, and of these many will doubtless turn out to be varieties and not species when long series from numerous localities have been accumulated and carefully examined. Prof. J. B. Smith has most liberally presented to the British Museum specimens of all the species not before contained in it that he could spare, has lent many others for examination, and has taken great trouble to clear up numerous points of difficulty. Dr. Harrison G. Dyar also has obtained Sir George Hampson the loan of many species for examination from the National Collection at Washington, and has had coloured photographs prepared of all the unique types contained in that Collection, and, in addition, has most kindly written descriptions of all the known larve of N. American species, published in this Volume under the initials ‘“ H. G. D.” Mr. W. Beutenmuller, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has lent specimens of several species contained in that Collection and sent coloured drawings of the other types in it which it was desired to figure. Dr. A.G. Mayer, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, has sent coloured figures of the types of species from the Neumegen Collection which is now in that Museum; these are reproduced on the plates and acknowledged in the text. Prof. A. R. Grote, of Bremen, also has sent a few American species, and Mr, T, D, A. Cockerell, of East Las Vegas, has sent some from PREFACE. Vil New Mexico. Mr. H. Wolley Dod, of Calgary, Alberta, has presented specimens of many desiderata from that district, and Mr. TH. H. Lyman, of Montreal, has obtained the loan of other Canadian species for examination. Of Palearctic species, Herr R. Piingeler, of Aachen, has lent many forms from his very fine collection, Prof. Ch. Aurivillius has lent, from the Stockholm Museum, his types from Scandinavia and Greenland and also Wallengren’s types from various localities ; and Mr, H. J. Elwes has lent all that was required from the Christoph Collection in his possession. The Abbé J. de Joannis has lent several types from 8S. Kurope, Algeria, and Syria; Mons. Ch, Oberthur types from 8. Europe and Algeria, also many of Guencée’s types, almost the whole of the remainder of which have been sent for examination by Prof. Bouvier, of the Paris Museum; and Mr, G.I’. Bethune-Baker his types from Kgypt. Mons. Paul Dognin, Mr. Herbert Druce, and Mr. W. Schaus have lent their types from Tropical America ; Prof. F. Karsch, of the Berlin Museum, has examined Maassen’s types from Colombia and Ecuador described in Stiibel’s ‘ Reise ; whilst of the species described from Patagonia and Magellan the types described by the late Dr. Carlos Berg have been lent from the Buenos Ayres Museum, Mons. Paul Mabille has lent his types, and those described by Dr. Staudinger have been sent from the Stockholm Museum, and by Prof. K. Kreepelin from the Hamburgh Museum. Mr. E. Meyrick has sent his types from the Australasian region, and others from Hawaii have been lent by Dr. J. D. Alfken, of Bremen. In addition to these, all those whose assistance has been acknowledged in former volumes have continued to give any help that was asked of them. In this Volume the plates are reproduced by trichromatic photo- graphy, which is better suited to give the effect of dull shades grading one into the other, such as are found in most Noclwide, ylil PREFACE, whilst chromolithography is better suited for reproducing sharply- defined bright colours: some allowance will doubtless have to be made for the figures of the American species that have been reproduced from coloured photographs ; when this is the case, it will always be found stated in the text. K. RAY LANKESTER, Director. British Museum (Natural History), June 20th, 1905. SYSTEMATIG INDEX. Fam. NOCTUID& Subfam. AGROTINZE.... PN SHQMUG. (is c8 fe ecmsis a) 001 oe 600i 1. picteti, Stawd. ........ Dy pretiosa, Alphe ca... 3. ladacensis (/e/d.) Heliolonche, Grote 4. modicella, Grote »Heliophana, Grote .......... BT (GMs) 6 =: shelnal swe 6. amaryllis, Smith To waitnel (CAO) po one aeoe Heliosea, Grote &. pictipennis, Grote EG WO GaIs OGis. 5 6)6 dies lese cs 9. celeris (Grote) NOM serssan (G06) \meyey-cee 6 « 11. greefiana (7'epper) : 12. chansyi (Oberth.)...... 13. cognata (rr.) 114l, tcrnloul (Paso) “cones poe 15, pulchripennis (Grote). . 16. imperialis, Staud....... IVE 18. 19. tee weeces villosa (Girote).......- vaccinie (H. Edw.).... P10), FUE, (CORO; conocodue 21. honesta (Grote) Melaporphyria, Grote 22. immortua, Grote ...... Dysocnemis, Grote.......... 23. prorupta (Grote) ...... 24, bellaponna (H. Edw.).. 25. borealis, Hmpsn....... 26. oregonica (H, Edw.) . Pyrocleptria, Hmpsn. ...... 27. californica, Hmpsn..... ASSN LO SES AT FDR) Se oe eS VOL, IV. Oa Cen purpurascens (Zausch.) . Page 19 Page Pseudotamila, Smith ....... Peers 29. copiosa (Leech)........ 27 30. vanella (Grote) ,..... 27 31. perminuta (77. Hdw.).. 28 Raghuva, Moore...... pape. 32. stigmatia, Hmpsn. .... 29 33. multiradiata, Himpsn... 38 34. perdentata, Hmpsn..... 30 35. discalis, Hmpsn. . 3 Boy CwWe, JEWIVOs ooo conde dl 37. confertissima, Wik. .... 31 38. perstriata, HZmpsn. 7 Neocleptria, Hmpsn. ........ 32 39. punctifera (Wik.) .... 32 Rhodocleptria, Hmpsn....... 33 40. incarnata (Freyer) .... 33 Cinlornclan, VES ocodcaccce 34 Al. lupata (Grote) ........ 35 42. albidentina (WUk.) .... 38 By uses) (VEE) ocooguac 36 44, translucens (Feld.) .... 36 45, paradoxa (Girote)...... oy) 4G, cystiphora (Wllgrn.) .. 87 47. hyalosticta (/Zmpsn.) .. 33 48. ononis (Schiff:)........ 39 49, dejeani (Oberth.)...... 40 50. dipsacea (Linn.) ...... 40 51. phloxiphaga (Grote § IHD) soonoghocenepe 4] 52. metachrisea, Hmpsn. 42 53, peltigera (Schiff.)...... 42 54, nubigera (Herr.-Schdff.) 45 55, scutuligera (Guen.) .... 44 56. obsoleta, Fubr. .... 45, 657 57. assulta (Guen.)........ 47 58. xanthiata (Wik.)...... 47 59. chilensis, J/mpsn. 48 GO. virescens (Fabr.)...... 48 ObGplor (CnRaits agooosoocoude 49 61. citrinellus (Grote & Rob.) 50 b Chlorocleptria, Hmpsn. ...... 62. simplex (Smith) Dasypoudeea, Smith.......... Opalucens | (Mor) rece 64. meadi (Grote) ........ (Clagmicllen. Capiie o.00oocnsee0 oc 65. delphini (Zenn.) ...... ZECOPNTON, LE. sian's eas 66. rhodites (£v.) Ole BVELORA CHR 20a. sles G8. phlebophora, Led. hadophora, Gwen: .....s<% ses 69. gauree (Smith § Abd.).. WO; oI, (GHEO, S sa00c4s 71. felicitata (Smith)...... Thyreion, Smith #2. snow (Giote) <4. ore. fide) LOSCA ISILON ee eee 73a, patagonica (Berg).... 74. ligeze (Smth) Rhododipsa, Grote .......... 75. miniana, Grote........ 76. volupia (Fiéch)........ 77. masoni, Smith ........ SMA CM SURECK ee eens Lygrantheecia, Grote § Rob. . 79. bimatris (Harv.) 80. ultima (Streck.) . concinna (Smith) ...... 2. tanena (Streck.) . mortua (Grote) . errans (Smith) SA (USER EC.) Mererteee erect . obscurata (Streck.) .. . mesceana (Grote)...... 8. bicuspida (Smuth) . tuberculum (Hiibn.) » brevis (Grote) ey tecie 6a . septentrionalis (W7k.).. 92. ‘Birenh ((Siecks\ile en oan « 93. inclara (Streck.) ...... . constricta, H. Edw..... . approximata (Streck.). . . thoreaui (Grote § ob.). . hanga (Streck.)........ . marginata (Haw.) . Intrabilis (Smzth)...... . nubila (Streck.) ...... . Imperspicua (Séreck.) .. Mlorus(@Sineck) jeare Aare bifascia (iibn.) ...... Solve, JEW 50505 700500008 OAS lusxan((G7.00e) = eee NOS; ocullata, wrth... Sse 106, reniformis, Smth...... 107. cumatilis (Groze) i O30. OD Ss) jwie Satis 48 MHODMO OM S10) OU Oo LO CFS OG SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 108. 109. 110. Tb 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. inbe 118. 119. 120. rai. hulstia, Tepper........ tenuescens (Grote) .... Cilivaba, Smt eee eee chrysella (Grote) aleucis (Harv.) lncilinea (WUk.) ...... neglecta, Streck. ...... dittusa, Smith os... trifascia, Hiibn. oleagina, Morr, ...... eracilenta, Hiibn....... sexplagiata, Smrth ... biundulata, Smith separata (Grote) 121 a. eximia (Berg) 122. acutilinea (Gote) 128. 124. 125. 126. 127, 128. 129. 1350, 131. 32. 133. 154. 2s eles 6 fo\{e\e, eile te parmeliana (ZZ. Edw.).. obliqua, Smrth ........ nundina (Drury) coercita ( Grote) Dbalba(Grpte)4.4e0ee scutata (Staud.) ...... arefacta (H. Edw.) .... cupes (Grote) tenia Grote) rose albafascia, Smith bruce, Smith. ase! 135. unimacula, Smith ; 136. valsinghami (4. Ldw.) . 137. lanul (Streck.) 138. regia (Streck.) ........ 139, gloriosa (Streck.)...... 140. sanguinea (Geyer) .... 141. saturata (Grote) ...... 142. roseitincta (Harv.) .. 145; lynx (Gens). clsenesck 144, jaguarina (Guen.) re 145. petulans (H. Edw.).... 146, arcigera (Guen.) 147. sordida, Smith........ 148. limbalis (Grote) Hupanychis, Grote ......-... 149, spinosee (Guen.) ...... 150. mexicana, Hmpsn. .... 151. crenilinea (Smith) Grotella, Harosteeeee eee 152. septempunctata, Harv. . VOSS (IS G70; eer Melicleptria, Hin: 225-2. 154. cistella (Swrnh.) 155, eodora (Meyr.) 156, cladota (Swinh.) ...... 157. mesoleuca (Lower) .... 158. neurias (Meyr.) ...... 159, cramboides (Guen.) ... @) 10, fas es eee eee Oot ong ere eee 87 88 SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 160. osmida (Szinh.) ...... 161. ionola (Swinh.)........ 162. pallida (Butl.) ........ 163. canusina (Swink. ) ; 164. moribunda (Guwen.) .... 165. aleurota (Lower) ...... 166. aberrans (Butl.) ...... 167. scutosa (Schiff) ...... ULDaR OTM I Aaa GS sultan (Grote)is ii. ose. 169. dora (Swinh.) ........ 170. metarhoda, Druce 171. decorata (Moore) 5 a - 172. leucosticta, Hmpsn..... 173. albiseriata, Drace 174. sinuata (Moore) ...... 79. aureola (Wik.)........ 176. senegalensis (Guen).... dee mbile, Empsn: 2 36 «4: 178. sanguinolenta( Moore). . L7(9s neta (Sunk. id. 5. . 180. irrorata (Moore) ...... 181. bimaculata (Moore)... 182. nigrifasciata, Hmpsn. .. 183. trifasciata, Hmpsn. .. 184. nigristriata, Zmpsn. 185. fissifascia, Himpsr. .... 186. flavirosea, Hmpsn. .... 187. disticta, Hmpsn. ...... 188. alarioides (Bril.) ...... 189. lanceolata (Wi1k.)...... 190. cruentata (Moore) 191. rubristria, Hmpsn. .... 192. flavia, Hmpsn......... 193. bivittata (Wik.) ...... 194. terracotta (Hmpsn.).... 195. transvalica, Dist....... 196. beatrix (Moore) ...... 197. radiata (Moore) ...... 198. flavistrigata, Hmpsr. .. 199. metaphrea, Hmpsn..... 200. tosta (Moore) ........ 201. albicilia, Hmpsn....... 202. flavocarnea, Hmpsn. 205. modesta (Movre) ...... 204, field (Aiseh.) .......- 205. artaxoides (Moore).... 206. flaviceps, Hmepsn....... 207. holeleuca, Hmpsn. .... Tebdomochondra, Staud..... 208. syrticola, Staud. ...... Copablepharon, Harv. ........ 209. absida (Harv.)........ 210. grandis (Streck.) ...... 211. longipennis, Grote 912. alba (Hurv.)......... 99 100 100 . 100 101 101 101 102 Page AHISUTS wIVOON Ca an aetecl role 119 VAIS. CNS, WORE So0occce 119 214. atcinsoni, Moore ...... 120 215. marginalis (Wik.) .... 121 216, straminea, Hinpsn. .... 121 217. .erugo (£eld:) 9s ...6. 0% 121 Erythrophza, Stawd. ........ 122 218. eudoxia, Staud. ...... 122 ING MIN, JENS eee aGOnd oe 122 PO TACTOSas CLS77>) etare creel 125 220. polyedon (Clerck) - ee 221. hyperici (Schzff.) ...... 124 222. conjuncta (Piing.) 25 IRM WR eoeeaec aun oeor 126 223. bipartita, Wik........- 126 Oxytripiag Stavds, janscrarca soot: 127 224. orbiculosa (Lsp.)...... 127 TsochllorasStaudareeirare tee 128 295. maxima, vSiaud. se. 4 128 226. chloroptera (Himpsn.).. 128 227. herbacea, Adph. ...... 129 DPS, SANAHISGIS Gl se oo ose 129 229. grumi, Alph........... 130 229 a. xanthiana, Staud..... 658 (Grupa, Alpi eis a5 oes 13 2505 fora Alples ts. as 2 ce 150 Agrotiphila, Grote .....6..2% 31 231. unifasciata (Ménétr.) .. 13 232. quieta (Hiibn.)........ 132 233. microreas (Meyr.) .... 132 934. alascee (Grote) ........ 13: 235. staudingeri (Jdschl.) .. 138 236. maculata, Smith ...... 154 237. colorado, Snuth ...... 13: Orosagrotis, Hmpsn. 5c... on 135 238. amphora, Himpsn. 135 239. incognita (Smith) 135 240. montana (Morv.).. 156, 658 241. cashmirensis, Hmpsn... 136 Mesembreuxoa, Hiapsn. .. 157 242. chilensis, Hmpsv. SY/ Cladocerotis, Hmpsn. ........ 158 243. optabilis (Boisd.)...... 138 Tripseuxoa, Hmpsn........... 139 244, strigata, Hmpsn....... 139 Stenagrotis, Hmpsn. ........ 159 245. edmondsi (Putl.)...... 139 Porosagrotis, Smith .......... 140 245 a. caffra, Hmpsn. ...... 658 246. deedalus, Sth ...... 140 247. pluralis (Grote) ...... 14] 2485 Collin (Grote) ence «== 141 249. orthogonia (Morr.) .... 142 250. siceata (Smith)........ 142 251. gypietina (Guen.) 142 252. brachystria, Hnepsn. 1435 xi SYSTEMATIC INDEX. Porosagrotis (con). Paze Page 253. patula (Wik.) .....4.. 144 304. spinifera (IZiidn.)...... 177 254. longidens (Smith) .... 145 305. distinguenda (Led.).... 179 255. vetusta (Wik.)......+. 145 306. christophi (Staud.) .... 179 256. catenula (Grote) ...... 146 307. edmondsi (Butl.)...... 180 957. texana (Grote)........ 146 308. proleuca, Hmpsn. .... 180 258. satiens (Smith) ...... 147 309. hastifera (Donz.) ...... 181 259. scortea (Schaus) ...... 147 310. lutescens (Blanch.) .... 181 260. mimallonis (Grote) .... 148 311. araucaria, Hinpsn. .... 182 Micragrotis, Hmpsn. ....+..- 148 812. obelisca (Sehifi) -....- 1kv 261. exusta, Himpsn. ...... 149 S18. radius (Haw. Gees 183 262. interstriata (Hmpsn.).. 149 314. poliotis, Hmpsn.) .... 184 263. strigibasis (Hmpsn.) .. 149 SLO: varmenay (Cys) wanes 184 264, axylides, Hmpsn....... 150 316. brachypecten (Zmpsn.). 185 265. lacteata, Hmpsn....... 150 317. coquimbensis, Ampsn... 185 266. puncticostata (Hmpsn.). 151 318. americana (Blanch.) .. 186 267. rufescens, Hmpsn. .... 152 319. bogdanovi (Lrsch.) .... 186 268. acydonta, Hmpsn. .... 152 320. mollis (Staud.).. ..... 186 268 a. microstigma, Hmpsn.. 659 321. panoplias (Weyr.) .... 186 268 b. prosarca, Hmpsn. .... 659 322. epicremna (Meyr.) .... 186 IBUON, ELUOIE cre acter ee iatee ole 153 323. mesotoxa (Mey7.). .... 188 269. obesa (Boisd.) ........ 154 324. baliopa (Meyr.) ...... 188 270. polybela, de Joan. .... 155 325. canariensis (Rebel) .... 188 D7, (CRASSA Letts) wet ei'« cia 155 326. tibetana (Moore)...... 189 972, lasserrei (Oberth.) .... 156 327. fissa (Staud.) .... 190, 660 273. graslini (Ramb.) ...... 156 3828. humigena (Piing.) .... 190 274. rugifrons (Mab.)...... 157 329. pallidifrons, Hmpsn. .. 191 275. beetica (Borsd.) ..,... 157 330. cremata (Butl.) ...... 191 276. pierreti (Bugn.) ...... 158 331. spoderopa (Meyr.) .... 192 277. lansarotensis (Rebel) ., 158 332. tephrias (Meyr.)...... 192 978. trifida (F.de Waldh.).. 159 335. lucicolens (Butl.)...... 192 279. fatidia (Hiibn.) ...... 159 334, cognita (Staud.) ...>.. 193 280. endogeea (Boisd.)...... 161 335, photophila (Butl.) .... 193 981. sabulosa (2mbr.)...... 162 336, perigramma (Meyr.) .. 193 982. arenivolans (Butl.) .... 162 337. vilsoni (Grote) ........ 204 983. chretieni, Dumont .... 168 338. lacunosa (Grote)...... 204 284. repanda (Wik.) ...... 163 339. cicatricosa (Grote) .... 205 285, radians (Gwev.)) 62. .0% 164 340. subspinifera (JZmpsn.). . 205 286. infusa (Botsd.)........ 164 341, insertans (Smith)...... 206 287. porphyricollis (Gwen.).. 165 342. neomexicana (Smith) .. 206 288. longidentifera, Hmpsn. . 166 S345. teculan CLlanns\ aera 207 289. interjectionis (Guen.) .. 166 343 a. cinereopallida (Smith). 660 290. segetis (Schiff.)........ 167 344. segregata (Snuth) .... 207 291. subalba (Wik:) ...... 169 345. brevipennis (Smith) .. 208 209) yobustar (Hears ersten 169 346. letificans (Smith) .... 208 293. trifurcula (Staud.) .... 169 347. pugionis (Smrth) ...... 209 294. vestigialis (Rott.) .... 170 548, quadridentata (Grote § PB anno) kos Goc0n6 UAL R663) tS eee 09 PNGH, TAN (PIB 6 6 oan don 6.0.6 alia 349. niveilinea (Grote) .... 210 BOOT. .conticer (Schuf:) i. sae 172 350. oblongistigma (Smith). . 210 298. cinchonina (Guen.) .... 178 Soll, olivalis((Grrote) eee ae 211 298 a. hemispheerica(ZZmpsn.) 660 352. plagigera (Morr.) .... 211 999. edictalis (Smith) ...... 173 353. ridingsiana (Grote) .... 212 300. admirationis (Guen.) .. 173 354, flavidens (Smvth)...... 212 301. ceropachoides (Guen.).. 174 855. biclavis (Grote) ...... 213 302. cinerea (Schaff.) ...... 174 356. atristrigata (Smzth).... 215 308. crassilinea (Willyrn.) .. 178 357. hollemani (Grote)’ .... 213 358. 359. 360, 361. 362. 363. 5SG4. 365. 366. 367. 368. 369. 370. 371. 372. 373. “74, 379. 376, 377. 378. 379. 380, 38l. 382. 385, 384. 385. 586. 387. 388. 389. 390. ool. 392, 393, 394, 395. 596. 397. 398. 399. 400. 401. 402. 403. 404, 405, 406. 407. 408. 409. 410. 411. 412, 415, SYSTEMATIC INDEX. Page collocata (Smith)...... 914 nevada (Smith) ...... 214 acuminifera (Lv.) . 215 submolesta (Piing.).... 215 flaviscapula (Smith) .. 216 candida (Smith) ...... 216 procellaris (Meyr.) .... 217 sponsa (Smzth)........ 217 OS 07 217 bicollaris (Grote)...... 218 excogita (Smith) ...... 218 punctigera (Wik.) .... 219 perpolita (Morr.) .... 219 EUTIS; (OSI7TEA I a ales Sarwvane “ANS perfusca (Grote) ...... 220 fumalis (Grote) ...... 220 velleripennis (Grote) .. 220 atomaris (Smith)...... 221 adumbrata (Zv.)...... 221 atrofusca (Smith)...... 222 stigmatilis (Smith) .... 222 gagates (Grote) ...... 223 diantheecize (Mab.).... 223 falclandica, Hmpsn. .. 224 misturata (Sith) 224 moerens (Gircte) ...... 224 robiginosa (Staud.) .... 225 exculta (Smith) ...... 225 cursoriodes, Hmpsn. 226 heringi (Stauvd.) ...... 226 serricornis (Smith) .... 226 eremioides (Meyr.) .... 227 citricolor (Grote)...... 227 vigurea (Piing.) .. 227, 661 remota (Smith) ...... 228 infnacta (Morr) os. 6. 228 detersa (Wik.)........: 229 luteola (Smith)........ 229 tetrica (Smith) ...... 23 fulda (Smith) ........ 280 neevula (Smith) ...... 28 termessa (Smith) ...... 231 detesta (Smith) ...... 231 homicida (Staud.) .... 232 contagionis (Smith) .... 282 tronella (Smith) ...... 232 confusa (Alph.) ...... 238 subdecora (Staud.).... 233 acornis (Smzth)........ 233 birivia (Schiff.)........ 234 GEEMIB GT OLE) <2. cis-d | tate DOE relaxa (Smith) .....,.. 2385 vulpina (Smith) ...... 235 bostoniensis (Grote) 235 sessile (Smith)........ 236 testula (Smith)........ 236 414. 415. 416. 417. 418. 419, 420, diol. 422, 423, 424. 425, 426. 497. 428. 429, 450. 451. 432 v=. 453. 454, 455. 456. 4357. 458, 459. 440, 441. 442. 445, 444, 445, 446, 447. 448, 449, 450, 45], 452. 453. 454, A455. 456. 457, 458. 459, 460, 461. 462, 463. 464, 465. 466. 467. 468. 469. xiii Page tocoyse (Smith) ...... 23 audentis (Smith) ...... 237 medialis (Simzth)...... 288 feniseca (Harv.):...... 238 difformis (Smth)...... 239 grisescens (Labr.) .. 239 decora (Schiff.)........ 240 simplonia (Geyer) .... 241 culminicola (Staud.) .. 241 vallus (Smith) ........ 242 luteosita (Smuvth) ....., 942, extranea (Smith) ...... 248 trifasciata (Smuth) .... 243 bifasciata (Sith) . 248 comosan@ 7077) mine cite 244 dacota (Smith) ...... .. 244 brochan(orn. evs ha 244 mbes (WEL) Aoooaenc 245 psammopheea (Meyr.).. 246 sculptilis (Harv.)...... 246 deedala (Druce) ...... 247 murdoci (Smzh) ...... 247 cursoria (Hiifn.) ...... 248 friabilis (Grote) ...... 249 nigricans (Linn.)...... 249 nyctopis, Hmpsn....... 250 rma (WOR) oheanac 251 tubefactalis (Grote) 5 Dll 5 . holoberba (Smith) .... intolerabilis (Piing.) brevirami ( Zmypsn.) bo bD bO bO bO or Or Or Ot © H= Co Co bo bo conspicua (Ziibn.) ... septentrionalis (W/k.).. rimliatst (RAD) Bon oes 254. perturbata (Smith) .... 255 objurgata (Smith) .... 255 messoria (Harris) .... 256 atropulverea (Smith) .. 257 micronyx (Grote) 257 hilaris: (fpr) = nc0da wees terrena (Smith)........ 258 laganee (Smith)........ 259 ontario (Smith) 56 BY) quinquelinea (Smith) .. 260 itodes (Smith) ........ 260 pedalis (Smth)........ 261 teleboa (Smith)........ 261 recticincta (Smith) .... 262 falerina (Smith) ...... 262 CONANOS/ GIs) asc ani. o's 262 territorialis (Smith)... . 263 conjuncta (Smith) .... 263 lineifrons (Smith) .... 264 cerrvillei (Smith) .... 264 MUG BaK Er)! tol ake si nls 264. CHomis CAGED). Wasco 265 XIV Euxoa 470. ANTAL 472. ATiay 474. 475. 476. ATT. 478. 479, 480. A481. 482. 483. 484, 485, 486. 487. 483. 489. 490. A491. 492. 493. 494, 495, ADG. 497. 498. 499, 500. 501. 502. 503. 504. 505. 506, 507. 508. 509. 510, oll. 512. Bliss 514, Dilip: 516. ‘Oli 518. 519. 520. 521. a, 523. 524. 525; SYSTEMATIC INDEX. (con.). Page mustelina (Christ) .... 266 mmmixtar(Guobe)ete. cs 266 denticulosa (Esp.) .... 267 fuscigera (Grote) ...... 267 Intulenta (Smith)...... 268 annulipes (Smith) .... 268 ternaria (Smith) ...... 269 insignata (W1k.) ...... 269 brunneigera (Grote) .. 269 dreuseni (Staud.)...... 270 fauna Ons) ecloetwes 270 orbicularis (Sm7th) .... 271 incalida (Smith) ...... 271 mollis ( Wik.) ....... . 272 opipara (Morr.) ...... 272 tristicula (Morr.) . 273 mUMIS((GVOLE)% Sees Bo dissona (Moschl.).,.... 274 TREUEDEE. (UM sooboooc 274 mialisi(S726/))) se. selene 275 enteridis (Smith)....... 275 alticola (Smith) ...... 276 cariosa (Smith)........ 276 infausta (Wik:) .... +. 277 megastigma (Smith) .. 277 MIpPiba (GES). etene 278 Colatia (Grate)! pereeiece 278 layin (CROWD) oyoonooc 278 noctuiformis (Smith) .. 279 basiflava (Smith)...... 279 basalis (Grote)........ 280 solitaria (Smzth) ...... 280 TOWEL (SOONG po boo ad0c 281 melanoneura (Meyr.) .. 281 austalea (Meyr.)...... 282 Satis) (laps) einen cen Oe nostra (Smith)........ 283 reuda (Streck.) .... 283 decolor (iforrs) ake 6. 284 tessellata (arr.) 285 intrusa (Smith) ...... 286 albipennis (Girote) .... 286 verticalis (Grote) ....... 287 recussa (#20bn:)) wae. 200 neotelis (Smith) ...... 288 titubatis (Smith)...... 289 pallipennis (Smith) .... 289 hispidula (Gen. ) 289 bilitura (Guen.) ...... 290 ochrogaster (G'uen.).... 290 compressipennis (Sth) 291 obeliscoides (Gaen.).... 292 excellens (Grote)...... 292, (mua) (JENIN) 5 bs ooo & 293 pindard(Smuth)s2.. Gh. 295 idahoensis (Grote) . 295 Page 526. factoris (Smith) ...... 295 527. foeminalis (Smith) .... 296 528. furtiva (Smith) ...... 297 529. vanidica (Smith) ...... 297 530. basigramma (Staud.) .. 298 531. intusa (Smith) ........ 208 OLS avibeAM CL Ss) bs occa 298 533. islandica (Stawd.) .... 299 34. henrietta (Smth)...... 800 535. atrifera (Grote) ...... 300 536. vestermanni (Staud.) .. 301 537. laminis (Smith) ...... 502 538. tesselloides (Grote) .... 302 539. silens (Grote) ..... ee oOe 540. silenis (Smith) ........ 303 541. divergens (Wik.)...... 304 542. nordica (Smith) ...... 304 548. fusimacula (Smith).... 805 544. ceesia (Smith) ........ 505 545. redimicula (Morr.) .... 806 546. acutifrons (Smith) . 306 547. strigilis (Grote) .s 202% 307 548. servita (Smith)........ 308 549. pictifascia (Hmpsn.) .. 308 550, axiliodes, Hmpsn. ..,. 308 551. lineifera (Blanch.) .... 309 Ps WnGhe (CORP) aoodooac 310 553. oberthuri (Leech)...... 310 554. auxiliaris (Grote)...... 311 555. sorella (Schaus) ...... 312 556. balinitis (Grote) ...... 312 557. agrestis (Grote) ...... 313 558. inconcinna (Harv.).... 38l4 559. terrealis (Grote) ...... 314 560. intracta (WIk.) ...... 515 561. xanthiodes, Hmpsn. .. 315 562. difficilis (Hirsch.) ...... 518 563. flavicollis (Smith) . ols 564, manethusa (Druce).... 319 565. acclivis (Morr.) ...... 519 566. albicosta (Smth)...... 320 567. proclivis (Smzth) 320 568. fumicolor (Hmpsn.) 321 - 568a. rufomixta, Hmpsn. .. 661 569. apicalis (Grote) ...... 321 570. cleiducha (Dognin) .... 822 571. marcida ( Christ.) 322 572. t-nigrum (Guen.)...... 323 573. abnormis (Smith)...... 323 573 a. ruticeps, Hmpsn. .... 661 574, pronyeta, Hmpsn. .. d24 yay, aeselhuise, (TUS) sacccase 324 576. indigna (Herr.-Schaff.) . 324 577. epipytia, Hmpsn....... 325 578. hirtipalpis ( W7k.) 326 579. eremicola (Stndf.) 326 SYSTEMATIC INDEX, Pace 580. cirghisa (Hv.)'........ 526 O8l.. clara (Staud.) ...... 0 327 582. ionara (Staud.)........ 328 583. singularis (Staud.) .... 328 584. amoena (Staud.) ...... 328 585. peperida, Himpsn. 329 586. opisoleuca (Staud.).... 829 587. forcipula (Schiff.)...... 330 588. exacta (Staud.) ...... 330 589. glaucescens (Christ.) .. 85 590. turbans (Staud.) ...... 33 591. signifera (Schiff.) . #ide2 . 592. celsicola (Bell.)’ ...... 392 593. improba (Staud.)...... 335 594. multicuspis (Lv.)...... 395 595. sequicuspis (Staud.) B54 596. lagena (Grote) ........ 334 597. albalis (Grote)...2.... 335 598.. aethes (Mad.) ........ 589 599. lucipeta (Schiff.) ...... 356 600. pygmiea (Bang-Haas).. 356 GOl. nyctina, Hmpsn. ...... 336 LOGINS 1S ee eee ae BY 602. gladiaria (Morr.)...... 387 603. venerabilis (Wik.) . .. 338 604. milleri (Grote)...:.... 309 605. circumdata (Grote) .... 889 606. pectinicornis (Smth) .. 840 607. evanidalis (Grote) 540 608. robustior (Smzth)...... o41 G09; olivia’ (Morn) oes se. 345 (GUO, Gliweeincr, We aacoo doe 343 611. edentata, Smith ...... 344 612. subgothica (Haw.) .... 345 G3. herilis (Grote) 2... .°. 0. 346 614. honesta (Staud.) ...... 347 Gib. gravis (Grote)... 0.5. 347 616. vancouverensis (Grote) . 348 617. volubilis (Harv.)...... 349 Glen DEXA (BETO) ire stais cle 3.015 349 619. exneipennis (Grote) .... 350 ~ 620, duo-signa, Hmpsn. .... 85 621.. xiphias (Meyr.) ...... 351 622. dislocata (Wik.) ...... 351 623. aulacias (Meyr.) ...... 32 624, informis (Leech) ...... Bd2 625. exclamationis (Liim.) .. 858 626. malefida (Guen.)...... 303 627. annexa (Treit.) ...... Bo4 628. canities (Grote) ...... 309 629. experta (W1K.). 22.2.0: 596 G30; elerica, (Butl.) <. 0.056 856 ienmonassa, Wier 2s wwe she 357 631. sinuata, Moore’........ 357 Spee, (orellizi, VE | Swe coe bc 358 633. spilota (Moore) ...... uo9 634. 635. 636, 6357. 6328. Opigena, Borsd...... 639. Agrotis, Ochs. 640. 641. G42. 645, 644. 645, 646. 647. 648. 649. G50. 651. 652. 653. 654. ae 695. 656. 6n7: 658. 659. 660. 661. 662. 663. 664. incisa, Moore lanceolata (Moore) . clava (Leech) pallidula (Leech) polygona (Schiff) badinodis, Grote subrosea (Steph.) opacifrons, Grote . spina, Guen. ypsilon (Zott.) ... geniculata, Rob. Grote §& cissigma (Mén.) dapsilis, Grote aurulenta, Smith musiva (7iibn.) exoleta, Leech ....... glareosal (Hsp. ink. ces 0 docilis, Grote castanea (Lsp.) temperata (Schaus) ... costahs, Wk. tibiata, Gwen. J OOo 00 6 ee eee eee 0 0 Doo 0 OOs0 0 06 <9) ese» oeee eer ee evceveecee HOMOMNS!, JOH goucooec =) 81.0) 9 el efie) eh ella el el ee polenta LCCCLO seis aneteecteraie subcorticea, Staud. .... violacea, Grote § Rob. . clarivena, Ping. ...... ose eee SOF OO hypochalcis, Turner.... 38 665. orbona (Hiifn.) ...... 385 GGG comess (2/007; eile 386 667. pronuba (Linn.) ...... 387 668. collaris, Grote § Fob... 388 G69) stentsi, Leds ou... .. 388 670. musivula, Staud....... 389 671. c-nigrum (Lenn.)...... 389 672. degenerata, Staud. .... 391 673. deraiota, Hmpsn....... 391 74, stupenda (Butl.) ...... 392 675. mysteca (Schaus)...... 393 676, flammatra (Schiff) .... 398 677. atritegulata, Hmpsn. .. 394 678. mandarina, (Leech) . 394 G7 9s vidi Stauidan wre. 35. flavirena (Moore)...... SOombIMGuAy (UCM) svete 37. griseivena, Hmpsn..... 38 741. eugramma, Hmpsn..... 399 43 432 Page 743. fennica, Uausch. Wo... 433 (AA, ela, StQUd. . snide 435, (45 eoblata, wos: senses 434 746. flavotincta (Smith) .... 434 747. collina (Bowsd.) ...... 485 748. melancholica, Led. .... 486 749, sareptana, Herr.-Schaff. 436 750. trisignata, Mssn....... 437 oily, loouista, JZ, aceon 437 752. poliogramma, Hmpsn... 438 753. albifurca, Hrsch. ...... 438 754. agalma, Piling. ........ 439 755. substrigata (Smith) .... 489 756. coelebs, Staud. ........ 440 (5. laments, Drucermeeitec 440 758. unicolor (Wik.) ...... 44] 759. suecica, Awwv. ...... 442 760. deplana (Frr.) ....... . 444 761. multangula (HZiibn.) .. 445 762. capnistis, Led. ........ 446 763. juneia, Grote 9.2. cares 446 764. rectangula (Schiff.) .... 446 765. patefacta (Smuth) 447 W166. atritrons, Grote ne. « 448 767. piscipellis, Grote ...... 448 768. cinereicollis, Grote .... 449 769. melanura, Koll. ...... 449 770. subporphyra (Wik.) .. 450 771. tepperi, Smith ...... »» 450 771 a. semidolens, Wilk..... 662 772. annularis (Saalm.) .... 450 773. dispalata (Sinh.) 451 TCA, SNCCa (GUEN:)i he aatetere 451 775. putris (Zinn.) 2.2.56. 452 776. coniorta, Hmpsn....... 453 Hii Cuno JOVI bona doc 4538 Wie. talday OSehaus) isc. 454 778 a. ecstriata, Hmpsn..... 662 779. cinctithorax (Wik.)....° 454 780. catenifera, Wik. ...... 455 TB Tavidan (Scheffe) nse stress 455 782. inopinata (Smith) 456 M783) (Sierras) ere 456 (84. acta, AGIs Saale 457 785. squalida, Guen. ...... 457 786. unimaculata, Morr..... 458 787. augurs( Habre ectaaeer 458 788. sibirica, Bowsd......... 459 789. jalapa, Hmpsn. ...... 459 WO, lnehalls, (CHRO socndn eo 46 791. lucens (Butl.) ........ 460 792. deplorata, Staud....... 461 793: senna (Geyer) wows 46] 794, clemens, Sith ...... 462 Metalepsig( {Grote nici.) at. ae 462 795. cornuta (Grote) ...... AG2 SYSTEMATIC INDEX, xvii Page Page Kucoptocnemis, Grote ........ 463 848. festiva (Schiff)........ 49] 796, stenistis, Hmpsn. .... 463.) 849. ceramophwa (Meyr.) .. 492 797. fimbriaris, Guen. ...... 464 | 850. tenuis (Buil.) .....;.. 492 798. tripars (Wik.))........ 465 Spl. loresi (Staud.)in. 0.5.6 492 Onychagrotis, JHAGGNT Os ~ aoe eee 465 852. destituta (Leech) ...... 493 799, rileyana (Morr.) ...... 465 855. homochroma, Hmpsn..., 493 Pseudorthosia, Grote ........ 466 854. cinerascens (Smith)..., 494 800. variabilis, Grote ...... 466 855. nyctymerina (Staud.) .. 494 MPBISIN Sip FAO hoe ocean cs ok ao 467 856. similis (Sfaud.) ...... 494 801. hyperborea (Zett.) . 468 857. psammoda (Sfaud.).... 495 802. gravida (Mab.)........ 469 858. anachoreta — (/Zer7,- 805. perdita (Sfaud.) ...... 469 SCHEME MN wietsic seks aichy 497 804. bicolor (Mad.) ........ 469 859. luperinoides (Guen.) .. 497 805. typhlina (Mab.) ...... 470 | -860. stridula (Staud.) ...... 498 806. coraxa (Piing.) . 470,663 | 861. voccei (Moschl.) ..:... 498 807. dissociata (Staud.) .... 471 862. cuprea (Schiff.)........ 499 808. interclusa ( W7é.) 5 ely 863. preecipua (Stazd.) . 499 809. coppingeri (Butl ) . 472 864. muscula (Staud.) ...... 500 SILOM iricida CMG)! occa... A472 865, lasciva (Staud.) 1.2... 500 SEE whilanis(Grote)ne cas. 0 . 472. 1| "5866. juldussi\ (Alpe. e ck. 501 812. fungorum (Grote) » 473 857. modesta (Staud.)...... 501 815. madida (Guen.) ...... 473 868. isochroma, Hmpsn..... 502 814. molepa (Schaus) ...... 473 | 869. argillacea (Alph.) . 502 815. straminea (Leech) .... 474 870. violetta (Staud.) ...... 502 816. herrich-scheefferi (A/ph.) 475 Sil calainay (Staud. ante ce 503 817. vittata (Staud.) ...... 476 | 872. junonia (Staud.) ...... 503 SIS; digna (Alph.)..0.54.. 476 873. suavis (Staud.)........ 504 819. postfusca (Hmpsn.).... 477 | 874. simulatrix (Hiibn.).... 504 820. tibetana (Staud.) ...... ATT | 875. viscotti (Stndf.) ...... 505 821. heesitans (Wik.) ...... 478 | 876. lucernea (ZLinn.)...... 505 822. infantilis (Staud.) . 478 | 877. ignobilis (Stawd.) . 506 833. faceta (CTR RO TEs oss ohare RS A79 | 878. helvetina (Botsd.) .... 506 824. salicarum (Wik.)...... ATO | 879. plumbea (Alph.) ...... 507 825. manifesta (Mor.) 480 880. subplumbea (Staud.) .. 507 826. ochracea (Wik.) ...... 480 881. quadrangula (Zett.).... 507 827. ocacensis (Pack.)...... 481 | 882. leetifica (Staud.) ...... 508 828, olivascens ( Hmpsn.) 481 | 883. diplogramma, Hmpsn... 508 829: hersi (Christ) .......: 482 | 884. monogramma, Hmpsn.. 509 830. coturnicula (Gres.).... 482 885. ledereri (Eisch.) ...... 509 831. littoralis (Pack.) ...... 483 886. simulans ([Hiifn.)...... 510 832. monochromatea (Morr.). 483 S87. latens (AUbn:) ices & 510 833. xanthostola (Mab.).... 483 888. ashworthi (Douwbl.) .... 511 834. colima (Schaus) oo. 484 889. candelarum (Staud.) 511 835. constanti (Will) ...... 484 890. castra (Schaus)........ 512 836. serraticornis (Staud.) .. 485 891. tiniloides (Dognin) .... 512 837. senescens (Staud.) ». 485 892. amina (Dogmin) ...... 515 838. cungessi (Alph.) ...... 485° | Nyssocnemiis, ed.) Siiieis<.. 515 339, panda (Leech) ........ 486 by Olah: (WIE) sasandeons 515 840. bistrigata (Wssn.) DAS, |, LycophotianHebmimis ances « . 514 841. territica (Smith) ...... 487 894. radiata (Schaus) ...... 514 842. elevata (Smith)........ 488 895. innominata (HZuds.).... 515 843. tecta (Hiibn.) ........ 488 | 896. molothina (£sp.)...... 516 844. retracta (Jimpsn.) . 489 | 897. perigrapha (Piing.).... 516 845. flavicosta (Wilgrn.) .. 489 898. lutescens (#v.)........ 517 846. fishi (Grote) .......... 490 | 899. romanovi (Christ.) ..., 517 847. cinerea (Staud.) ...... 490 | 900. achromatica, Himpsn. .. 518 VOL. IV. c XVill SYSTEMATIC INDEX. eee (con.). Page 901. eofrensis (Schaus) . 518 902.. sichima (Moore) ...... 519 903. junctimacula (Christ.).. 520 904. erschofh (Staud.)...... £ 521 | 905. militaris (Staud.)...... ¢ 52] 906. planifrons (Smith) .... 399 907. fidelis (de Joan.) ...... ¢ 522 908. rodea (Schaus) ........ 523 909. radiola, Hmpsn. ...... 523 910. ononensis (Brem.) .... 524 911. mendosica, Hmpsn..... 524 912. porphyrea (Schiff) ... . 524 SS Gime (COREA Gaaguoes (25) 914. flavina (ferr.-Schaff.) . 526 915. ochrina (Staud.) ...... 526 916. cermesina (Mab.)...... 526 917. petersi (Christ.) ...... 527 918. rips (Htibn.) ........ 527 919. farinosa (Staud.) ...... 528 920. scandens (Zley) ...... 529 921. congrua (Smith) ...... 529 922. quebecensis (Snuth).... 530 923... élata ((Smuth) eat. -- 5380 924, cuprina (Staud.) ...... 531 925. astricta (Morr)... .. 551 9296. nigra (Smith). 6. vs. 532 927. denticulata (Warr.) .. 533 O28--oecultar(Linn.), etic. 533 O29: spreeiixa (Morr) es wa 55 930. erythrina (Ramb.) .... 535 931. ochronota, Hmpsn. .... 586 932. semifusca (Butl.)...... ¢ 535 933. margaritosa (Haw.) .. 536 934, demutabilis (Smith) ., 587 935. vocalis (Grote) ciao 538 936. eminens (Led.)........ 538 937. .elecams) (2u:) eile so 589 938. larixia (Guen.)........ 540 939. grandipennis (Grote) .. 540 940. rudens (Harv.)........ 541 941. tamerlana (Bang-Haas) 541 942. chaldaica (Boisd.) . O41 943) tumceil (Piings)meeeeee 042 944. pellucidalis (Grote) .... 542 945. ocellina (Schiff.) ...... 546 946. alpestris (Bousd.)...... 547 947. multifida (Led,) ...... 548 948. degeniata (Christ.) .... 548 949, truculenta (Zed.)...... 549 950, toxistigma, Hmpsn. .. 549 Oy Fehahnin(Gi7:7s15)eeeeee 550 952. adorea (Schaus) ...... 550 953. microstigma, Schaus .. 551 954, interrupta — )iee. pool 955. candelisequa ( Schiff.) . 551 956. muscosa (Geyer) ...... & 552 957. 958. 959. 960. 961. 962. 963. 964. 965. 966. 967. 96%. 969. 970. 971. 972. 973. 974. 975. 975 976. 977. 978. 979. 980. 981. 982. 983. 984. 985. 986. 987. 988. 989. 990. 991. 992. 993. 994, 995, 996. 997. 998. 999, 1000. 1001. 1002. 1008. 1004. 1005, 1006. 1007. 1008. 1009. 1010. 1011. Page bitriangula (npsn.) .. 553 isopleura (Hopsn.).... 553 orthogramma, Hmpsn. . 554 ignicans (Guen.) ...... 554. imapecta Ochs.) .< ine es 555 biformis (Schaus)...... 556 messia (Guen.)........ 556 melanobasis, mpsn. .. 557 ferruginescens (Blanch.). 557 rmmnnaeh (SES) Soanooox 558 digna (Mfor.) hace. sos 558 atricincta (Smith) .... 558 OAUTA (LA1G.) weer elie 559 margaritacea (Vill.).... 559 insignata (Led.) ...... 560 butleri (Schaus) ...... 561 vaxvaba (Schaus) ...... 561 simplicia (Morr.) .... 561 aspersa,(Butl.)...5.... 562 a. ecyinacea, Himpsn.... 663 caer, (/20876)) a5 aoa. 562 atrisparsa, Hmpsn. .... 562 perirrorata (Hmpsn.) . 563 tuscirufa, Hmpsn...... 563 funebris (Schaus)...... 564 sordescens (Staud.) .... 564 tenuescens (Smith) .... 565 conchidia { Butl.) ...... 565 differens (Wik.) ...... 565 exuberans (Smith) . 566 postventa ( Geyer) . 566 costigera (Wik.) ...... 566 lubricans (Gwen.)...... 567 pulverea, Hmpsn. oo (Hey pudens (Mab.)........ 568 conformis (Swinh.) .... 568 vallesiaca (Boisd.) .... 568 poscila(Alph.) 1. cern 569 Pupax (CL rett.) Take eee 569 photophila (Guen.) .... 570 electra (Staud.) ...... 571 caradrinoides (Staud.).. 571 hadjina (Staud.) ...... 572 macrina (Piing.) ...... 572 devota (Christ.) ...... 5738 renigera (Hiibn.)...... 573 pudica (Staud.) ...... 574 umbrifera (4lph.) .. 574 spreta (Smith) ..<..... 575 fimbriola (Esp.) ...... 575 brunnescens, Hmpsn. .. 576 molibdoida (Staud.) .. 576 nanalis (Grote) ...... 577 oliveata (JZmpsn.) .... 577 preecurrens (Staud.).... 578 preecox (Linn.)........ 578 SYSTEMATIC INDEX. Page PRT Aa GMOLE nics © wien ere le wales «3 579 1057. acetosellee (Schiff.) .... 1012. chionanthi(Abbott§Sm.) 579 1058. oxalina (Hiibn.) ...... Aplectoides; Butl.. osc... we. HSOMMMNEULOIS, ELSI yar.torete levers 6 1013. speciosa (Hibn.) ...... 580 1059. nigroviridis (W?k.).... 1014. imperita (Hiibn.)...... 582 1060. atrovirens (W7k.) HOLS, pressa (Grete) cs ..0. 582 1051. venalba (VWoore) ...... 1016. condita (Guen) ...... DSOu ME MITOIS ELLUM WH) sie state cto ave Uitaies (EROUe of 6 3 bo 8b odlo.G Hoe 5835 1062. youngi (Smzth) ...... LOL 7. sagittaria, Grote... +. 584 1068. elimata (Guen.) ...... MOUS: spicata Grote 1.6.0 wk 584 1064. tenebrifera (W7k.) .... 1019. unicolor, Grote........ 585 1065. indeterminata (W7k.) .. OBO: satyrica, Grote........ 585 1066. stellaris (Grote) ...... MVR CT OLE® , Frenulum of female simple. a*, Abdomen with lateral anal pencils of hair ............ °, Abdomen without anal pencils of hair; fore wing with tufts of raised scales in cell ......,.-0.:eeeeseeeees - }?, Frenulum of female multiple. a’. Retinaculum of male bar-shaped. a+, Fore wing with tufts of raised scales in cell ......... }*, Fore wing without tufts of raised scales in cell...... 2°, Retinaculum of male not bar-shaped. a‘, Mid tibie spined ......... otis selsoe eprep cen ees posennoe }*, Mid tibize not spined. GP. Hiyes hairy, es... eseee spoon sobaSnOSEnAABSHINIOLNNG }°, Byes not hairy. a®, Eyes with long overhanging cilia ............. ares b°, Eyes not ciliated. a’, Hind wing with vein 5 from close to lower angle of cell, strong 3", Hind wing with vein 5 from well above angle of. icell, rather weak: 2. .ccsss-s.seceesss seoseaeeseces }1, Hind wing with vein 5 parallel to 4................ Joet8¢ IBS Maxall arya pallpipresenti..ecsssceeascree caerkte earn = ees ceee ees Euteliane. Stictopterine. Sarrothripine. Acontiane. Catocaline. Momine. Plusiane. Noctuine. Erastriane, Hypenine. Hybleine. The names adopted for the subfamilies are derived from the following genera :— Agrotis, Treit., 1825, type rectangula, Hadena, Schranck, 1802, » reticulata. Cucullia, Treit., 1826, » spectabilis. Aecronycta, Treit., 1825, 5 leporina. Eutelia, Hiibn., 1827, » adulatrie. Stictoptera, Guen., 1852, » cuculliordes. Sarrothripa, Curt., 1824, 5» revayana. Acontia, Treit., 1826, » malve, Catocala, Treit., 1826, >» fraxini. Moma, Hiibn., 1827, » ludifica. Plusia, Treit., 1826, . deaurata. Noctua, Linn., 1758, 55 Stree. Erastria, Treit., 1826, . trabealis. Hypena, Schranck, 1802, »» proboscidals. Hyblea, Fabr., 1794, yy ouerd. AGROTIN&. 5 Subfamily AGROTIN A. Proboscis usually well developed, sometimes aborted; palpi usually short, upturned or porrect; frons rounded, often with rounded prominence, sometimes with corneous plate below it, or with corneous processes of various forms; eyes naked, sometimes overhung by cilia, in Ala hairy; antenne usually ciliated, often pectinate or serrate; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, when there are usually crests on pro- and metathorax or ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only ; tibie more or less spinose, all the tibiz being sometimes strongly spined, in others the spines are reduced to one between mid and hind spurs of hind tibie ; abdomen rarely with dorsal crests. Wings usually broad, some- times rather narrow, the termen rounded or crenulate: fore wing with vein 1 @ weak, not anastomosing with 16; ic absent; 2 from middle of cell; 3 and 5 from near lower angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from the areole ; 11 free, from the cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a andd present; 1 ¢ absent; 5, 4 from lower angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 arising free, then bent down and touching eell, then again diverging, in Thyreion snowi connected with cell at middle by an oblique bar after diverging. Fig. 2.—Larva of Agrotis deraiota. 1. (From Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix. pl. 176. fig. 4.) Larva smooth, the warts with 1 hair; all the prolegs present ; the 12th somite with dorsal hump. 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A. Fore tibize with spines or claws. a. Frons with prominence. a‘. Frontal prominence with apical corneous wall and central process hollowed out in front . b'. Frontal prominence rounded in front. a>. Frons with corneous ridge across the pro- TiaUDEVVIYSE) | CHAR pe aB REE ORpE Ean up ciaccdsucdaen Hane . Frons without corneous ridge across the prominence. a>, Byes small, reniform. a‘, Frons with corneous plate below the prominence. >. Fore tibia with several outer claws. Fore tibix with two inner claws ...... 08, Fore tibiz with one inner claw......... 6°. Fore tibiz with one outer claw. a6, Thorax clothed with hair only ...... .. b8. Thorax clothed with hair and scales... }*, Frons without corneous plate below the promimence. . Fore tibix short and broad, with stout claw on inner side and short claw on OUD EM ei sroteisistere 5 etolereqalatetatelettjsiciarsieelslsieisiete’eevaiste 6°. Fore tibiz normal, with slender apical claws) [24 ACHE Gd ODA OGHEO TRC RUSE EEE c5. Fore tibix with spines only............... }°. Byes large, rounded. a*, Frons with corneous plate below the prominence. a, Fore tibie with several outer claws. a®, Fore tibix with two inner claws ...... 6°. Fore tibize with one inner claw. a’, Thorax clothed with hair only ...... 7, Thorax clothed with hair and scales. a°®, Head and thorax clothed with rough hair mixed with a few scales ...... b°. Head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales ........-.......s: b°, Fore tibize with one outer claw. a®. Fore tibie spined at sides. a’. Head and thorax smoothly clothed Wailer naive Chalhy cadatcocedscaounonenoabenoe +7, Head and thorax clothed with rough Nan amd Scales: casoscccees ecco s. . Head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales ................ 5°, Fore tibize not spined at sides. a’, Head and thorax clothed with hair only. a®, Fore tibise short and broad, with inner claw. w. Thorax with crest; tibia very slightly spitetls tcsescrescescncseceuet 6°, Thorax without crest; tibie strongly spined ............. depdods: 68. Fore tibiz normal, without inner claw, one claw on outer side and one on Ist joint of tarsus ........... Groreua, p. 96. Nnocierrera, p. 32. He iornana, p. 13. Henrosna, p. 15. Hatrormis, p. 15. Pyrocierreria, p. 25. Psruporamina, p. 27. MEtarorrnyrtia, p. 22. DysocyeEmis, p. 23, Lyarantiacta, p. 60. Tuyreton, p. 57. Riopopresa, p. 59. Scuinta, p. 72. RroporioRra, p. 55. Kuranycus, p. 94. MELIcLerRia, p. 97. Ciraricina, p. 52. RiropocieEpTRia, p. 33. Epornron, p. 54. ba | e NOCTUIDA. 6", Head and thorax clothed with hair bean scales. . Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rounded .........00.....2005 Raguvva, p. 29. bo’. Fore wing rather long and narrow, . the apex somewhat produced ....... Timora, p. 103. e°. Fore tibiz without outer claw............ Hespomocnonpra, p. 117. }*, Frons without corneous plate below the prominence. @. Fore tibie with two claws on inner 6 (is edadeeere Aoebeccosopegaconcosecoadas bas0sc . Oxytos, p. 49. . Fore tibia with one claw on inner side, - Fore tibiz with three claws on outer Pils ei caaboonsanonacdagtoaduce sinatesuigeelstiaeai CHLOROCLEPTRIA, p. 50. 6°, Fore tibiz with one claw on outer side. a’, Fore tibiz short and broad, with stout claw on inner side and short claw OnNOuteT Gee: osuec seas secasnceoeesee . Dasyroup#a, p. 51. b7, Fore tibie normal, with’ Slender apical claws ......... anobasaoocouats Paees CuLoripEa, p. 34. ©. Fore tibiz with spines only......... Looe CorasLernaron, p. 118. ce’, Frons with truncate conical prominence. a’, Wyes small and'reniform ..................+ .. Orosacrotis, p. 135. b°, Eyes large and rounded. a°®. Frontal prominence with central flat COINCOUS PLOCESS «......222eeeeeeereereereeeees MersemBrevxoa, p. 187. . Frontal prominence without corneous process. a*, Fore tibie short, with three long claws on inner side at extremity and short claw Olt OWE Goo gonogstioeboo césacecoanogccegentonone Micracrotis, p. 148. b*, Fore tibiz short, with ‘long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer . Cianocerotis, p. 158. ce’. Fore tibiz with the spines at extremity VWEIAy EMO -ecencoscabooa0s DORR OCR OCR COC aACnE Porosacrotis, p. 140. d+. Fore tibiz with the spines at extremity slender. a, Proboscis aborted, minute ............... Trresnuxoa, p. 189. °. Proboscis fully developed 18. Hyes ciliated ...... eonearaneeneeeesawesese Srmnacrotis, p. 139. b°, Eyes not ciliated......... er bens: ... Huxoa, p. 153. d', Frons with vertical ridge .................- ... WHELTIA, p. 337. ce’. Frons with slightly roughened prominences. Psruporrnosta, p. 466. b. Frons without prominence. a’. Kyes small, reniform. a°. Fore tibise with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ......... ...... HELIOLONCHE, p. 12. See tibiz spined. . Fore wing with the apex rectangular ; antenn: of male ECHINALE encores eee ance: Grom, p. 180. b°, Fore wing with the apex rounded ; an- tenn of male not pectinate! °. Palpi with the 3rd joint up- turned, almost naked. a'°, Palpi with the 2nd joint broadly fringed with hair in front...... Evpreracroris, p. 643. b'°, Palpiwith the 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair in front... Ruyncnacroris, p. 648. b°, Mid tibiz not spined. a*, Abdomen with dorsal crests ............608 Bucrara, p. 126. 4‘, Abdomen without dorsal crests. a5. Head and thorax clothed with rough hair and spatulate scales ............... Prornvxoa, p. 649. 6°. Head and thorax smoothly sealed ...... PRoTAGROTIS, p. 650, Genus ALA. 2 Type. Ala, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 49 .............6- peiinetscnes ae picteti. Trichanarta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 507 (1896) ...........60e ladacensis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending more than the length of head, fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint acuminate, well developed ; eyes hairy; antennz ciliated; frons with large tuft of hair; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair mixed with scales; mid and hind tibie strongly spined. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked. Secr. I. (4/a), Antenne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. A, Fore wing with the reniform placed on a medial dark SHAME cies). Satins celcenenneme ten teetades cnn ete eee REE oer ee picteti. B. Fore wing without medial dark shade ..................0.008 pretiosa. ALA. ill 1. Ala picteti. Ala picteti, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 49; Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 89, pl. 8. f.61 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; abdomen black with some grey hairs. Fore wing brown, almost entirely suffused with grey but leaving the inner margin dark; a curved dark sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line curved, with the more or less developed black-brown claviform on its outer edge and sometimes also a small elliptical grey-centred orbicular stigma: reniform with greyish centre defined by black-brown, its inner edge angled inwards on median nervure, placed on a distinct Fig. 3.—Ala picteti, S. }. brown medial shade; postmedial line indistinct, grey, oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled, incurved below vein 4; subter- minal line grey, slightly defined by brown on inner side and the area beyond it rather browner, minutely waved, angled inwards below costa and in submedian fold, slightly incurved at discal fold ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing white, irrorated with fuscous especially towards base ; veins and a discoidal lunule fuscous; the inner area and a broad terminal band fuscous black, the latter with its inner edge sometimes incurved at discal fold; cilia white. Underside white irrorated with fuscous, both wings with dark discoidal lunule and broad terminal band. Hab, W. Turxestan, Turcomania,1 ¢, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul, 2 3; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, Korla, xp. 26-28 millim. *2. Ala pretiosa. Ala pretiosa, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 453 (1892); id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 38, pl. 3. f.8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with olive and grey hair. Fore wing grey irrorated with olive, the basal, costal, and inner areas dark olive-brown; stigmata black-brown defined by whitish, the orbicular and claviform small, round, obliquely placed, the reniform large; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it dark brown with a pale obliquely curved subterminal band with waved edges expanding towards costa. Hind wing white; the basal half suffused with fuscous ; a dark discoidal lunule conioined to a streak from base 1) NOCTUID#. in submedian fold; the inner area and a broad terminal band fuscous black ; cilia white. Hab. Tiser, Nan Schan Mts., in Coll. Elwes. Fvp. 26 millim, Secr. II. (Zrichanarta). Antenne of male ciliated. 35. Ala ladacensis. Anarta ladakensis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 38 (1874); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 508. Dark brown mixed with black. Fore wing irrorated with black ; a minutely waved antemedial line with the orbicular stigma, a spot below the cell and one on inner margin beyond it black ; the reniform Fig. 4.—Ala ladacensis, §. 4. (From Moths Ind, vol. iv.) T* large, black; a slightly curved and oblique, minutely waved post- medial line; a waved punctiform subterminal line and a terminal series of points. Hind wing pale yellow, the basal and inner areas suffused with black ; a discoidal point sometimes present; afuscous subterminal mark on apical area. Underside whitish; fore wing with the discoidal spot and subterminal band prominent. Hab. Kasumir, Kardong, 14,000 ft. (McArthur), 1 g ; Lapa, type T 2 in Coll. Rothschild. wp. 22 millim. Genus HELIOLONCHE. Type Heliolonche, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 115 (1873)... modicella. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint fringed with very long hair, the 3rd clothed with rough hair ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long rough hair; frons not prominent, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes smooth, narrow ovate; antenne of male ciliated ; tibisee clothed with long hair; fore tibiz short, broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibize spined. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced, the termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 4. Heliolonche modicella. Heliolonche modicella, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 116, pl. 3. f. 12 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with ochreous-grey hairs. Fore wing purplish red, irrorated with black; some black and HELIOLONCHE,—HELIOPHANA. 13 ochreous hair at base of inner margin ; a dull ochreous mark in end of cell; an obliquely curved dull ochreous band from below apex to vein 1 before middle, with blackish edges and attenuate at extremi- ties ; cilia ochreous white, blackish at base. Hind wing black-brown, Fig, 5.—Heliolonche modicella, 3. }. the cilia greyish ochreous, with their bases black; the underside with the apical area grey. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Oregon, The Dales (Walsingham), 2 3, California, 1 ¢,4 9, Grote and Zeller Colls., type. wp. 22 millim. Genus HELIOPHANA. Type Heliophana, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p, 220 (1875) ...... mitis, Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique to just beyond frons, fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform; antenn of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with rough hair; fore tibiz short and broad, with two curved claws on inner side and three claws and spines on outer; mid and hind tibiw spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced and the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the short areole; 11 from cel]. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 shortly stalked. A. Hind wing with the base and two discal spots yellow ... bina. B. Hind wing with white medial band ...................0000005 amaryllis. (Cap Eliordewin er umam aculatememesecacencicmetaseccesaccinc-ostencce croc mitis, *5, Heliophana bina. Anthecia bina, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 186 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. OC p- 290. g. Fore wing vinous red, variegated with brown and olive-yellow, the latter principally on terminal area, the former on basal and medial areas ; ante- and postmedial lines very indistinct, with more prominent white points on costa. Hind wing black, the base and two discal spots yellow ; ciliayellow. Underside black, pale yellow, and red-brown, the subterminal band of hind wing entire. ® darker and redder. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Nebraska. Hp. 23 millim. This species is unknown to me. 14 NOCTUID 2. *6. Heliophana amaryllis. (Plate LIX. fig. 1.) Heliophana amaryllis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 180 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with sparse pale yellowish hair. Fore wing dirty greyish brown, the medial area dirty yellowish white; subbasal line whitish defined by black ; antemedial line whitish, detined on inner side by black, on outer by a grey shade, slightly incurved in cell and angled outwards on median nervure; orbicular and reniform black, the former round, touching the antemedial line, the latter large ; a slight medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line whitish, defined on inner side by a grey-brown line, on outer by the dark terminal area, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, angled inwards below costa and in discal and submedian folds, excurved above and below middle : veins of terminal area and cilia streaked with whitish. Hind wing black, with whitish medial band almost divided at lower angle of cell by the large black discoidal spot ; cilia whitish at tips. Under- side of fore wing white with black fascia below base of cell, large black orbicular, reniform, and subapical spots, an irregular black terminal band; hind wing with the medial band broader than above. Hab. U.S.A., California, Colton. Exp. 20 millim. This species is unknown to me: figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 7. Heliophana mitis. Melicleptria mitis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 116, pl. 3. f. 7 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. Heliophana obliquata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 130 (1891). ¢. Head and thorax fulvous yellow; abdomen black, with fulvous segmental lines and the extremity fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, with rufous markings irrorated with black; a diffused band from Fig. 6.—Heliophana mitis, $. 1. costa beyond middle to base of inner margin; an obliquely curved band from costa befere apex to middle of inner margin; a terminal line. Hind wing black-brown, with the cilia pale yellow. Under- side of both wings fuscous black, the costal and apical areas yellowish. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type, Mississippi. Zap. 20 millim. HELIOSEA.—HELIOTHIS. 15 Genus HELIOSEA. Type Heliosea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. ii. p. 220 (1875) ...... pictipennis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique to beyond frons, fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform; antennze of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair; fore tibiz spined, with curved claw on inner side and three claws on outer; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced, the termen oblique; veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing w ith 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. The unique type is without head and fore legs, and the descrip- tion is supplied from that of Mr. Grote. 8. Heliosea pictipennis. Heliosea pictipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875); id Tl. Essay, 62, pl. iii. f. 32; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. ¢. Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen black, with some hair at base and the extremity yellow ish white. Fore wing ochreous ; the basal area suffused with crimson to the obliquely cur ved crimson antemedial line ; the costal area suffused with crimson to the crimson postmedial line, which is slightly excurved to vein 4, then Fig. 7.—Heliosea pictipennis, 3. 3. incurved ; termen and cilia suffused with crimson. Hind wing black, with white medial band expanding to base on costa and not quite reaching inner margin ; cilia white at tips. Underside white ; fore wing with some diffused black at base, and a diffused postmedial band from vein 5 to inner margin ; hind wing with black patch at base, extending on inner area to middle, the terminal area black from vein 4 to tornus. Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 18 millim. Genus HELIOTHIS. Type. Heliothis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 91 (1816), non deser. ; z revi ochmebt. Hur. v.18, Psa LOUUS20) jse- no neeceecan-teicnencse cardut. Anthecia, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 162 (1840) ............ cognata. Trypana, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 58 (1841) ............ cardui. Adonisea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 220 (1875)... pulchripennis. Canidia, Grote, Reyised Check- list, p. 86 (1890), non deser.. sczssa. 16 NOCIUID®. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; frons with rounded prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antenne of male minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; fore tibia short, broad, spined at sides and with long curved claw on inner side and short claw, rarely three claws, on outer ; mid and hind tibia strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced, the termen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell very short ; veins 3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 strongly stalked. AupEindewineyblood-1ed tse ssasecnnes ote seecececaemeeaeeeeet cere saeee celeris. B. Hind wing yellow, with large black discoidal spot. (pRoreswine deep) punploigee.s-jasces-coseecsse sen eeeeee eset grefiana. b. Fore wing black, suffused with rufous .................0065 scissa. C. Hind wing black, with indistinct ochreous medial band... chansyi. D. Hind wing black, with prominent whitish medial band or spots. a. Hind wing with the medial band entire. a', Hind wing with the medial band reaching costa and TbabaXe ewe WAST Tl .555 op.a5dacHjeBecnoNoD AdHD JoonsbosoapOD00nGS -- cognata. }', Hind wing with the medial band not reaching costa Enndl They wae Ndeba {eB sqapHaadopacoOdseHkN[e & sosAScodon cardut. c!, Hind wing with the band reduced to a medial patch. pulchripennis. b. Hind wing with the band divided entirely or almost entirely into two spots. a. Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band purple. a?, Fore wing with the medial band almost entirely suffused with grey-green............... eckieninseteees imperialis. }?, Fore wing with the medial baud not suffused with grey-green. a°, Hind wing with the costa on underside not white Alt DASE! Gem ancaesNancasnaer erence meas swasee ere cre ens: purpurascens. }°, Hind wing with the costa on underside white Ea Lek 2 ech goncend ononadaneogadect Josadeadbascondapdaa: villosa ab. }', Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial band not purple. a. Fore wing with the reniform stigma ill-defined... villosa. b*, Fore wing with the reniform stigma prominently defined by whitish. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular stigma ill-defined. a‘. Fore wing with whitish antemedial, post- medial, aud subterminal lines................4. vaccine. bea Hore) winowwabhout lim estees-aseesece sete nea eeet sueta. +°, Fore wing with the orbicular stigma prominently definediibyswihttishy ap csss.ce ene sasaeeeereeneeeereee honesta. *9. Heliothis celeris. (Plate LIX. fig. 3. Meliclepiria celeris, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 148 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288. ¢. Head and thorax black, clothed with olivaceous hair ; pectus and legs ochreous ; abdomen black, with the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing deep purple, with the medial and terminal areas tinged with olivaceous ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, the latter defined by whitish and with a more prominent patch below median neryure forming a Y-shaped band; cilia a por HELIOTHIS. Wf purple. Hind wing deep blood-red, with traces of a paler band near base; cilia pale. Underside deep blood-red, with the costal edge and cilia purple; hind wing with a faint pale band near base. Hab. U.S.A., 8. California, Yosemite (Godman) in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 17 millim. 10. Heliothis scissa. (Plate LV. fig. 5.) Lygranthecia scissa, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p- 415 (1876) Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. 3. Head black with some grey hair; antenne and thorax rufous mixed with black; abdomen black with whitish segmental lines, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface with grey and vinous hair. Fore wing blackish overlaid with rufous hair; an oblique whitish triangular mark from middle of costa to vein 2; the reniform small, oblique, black with some white hair on it; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; terminal area tinged with grey. Hind wing black, with large yellow patch, in, beyond, and below the cell, terminating in a point on vein 1, its outer edge produced to a point in discal fold and with a large oblique black discoidal spot on it. Underside of fore wing with broad yellow medial band, not quite reaching costa, constricted below the cell and with the black reniform spot on it; hind wing with the costal and apical areas suffused with red, the yellow band reaching inner margin. Hab. U.S.A., Florida, 1 3 type. . Exp. 22 millim. *11. Heliothis grefiana. (Plate LIX. fig. 4.) Melicleptria grefiana, Tepper, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. x. p. 245 (1888); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288. 2. Fore wing rather pale vinous red; an obliquely curved yellow antemedial line, orbicular and reniform large, defined by the ante- and postmedial lines and by yellow between and below them ; postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, its inner side produced to a point in discal fold; termen pale grey. Hind wing yellow, with the margins black ; a large black discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., 8. California. vp. 22 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof. Smith’s figure. *12. Heliothis chansyi. Anthecia chanzyi, Oberth. Et, Ent. i. p. 51, pl. 2. ff. 4a, 6 (1876); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 3. Head and thorax pale tinged with vinous red; abdomen blackish, with ochreous segmental bands. Fore wing vinous red, with broad oblique pale ochreous medial band, its outer edge slightly excurved from costa to submedian fold, where it is somewhat angled inwards ; terminal area pinkish white, with the veins rather darker. Hind wing dull black, with obscure ochreous medial band; cilia VOL. IV. Cc 18 E NOCIUID. ochreous. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with the costa, apex, and a transverse band ochreous; hind wing silvery grey, with very indistinct medial band. @. Head and thorax tinged with greenish ; fore wing with the inner edge of medial band angled outwards to lower angle of cell, the terminal area wholly green except an apical ochreous spot. Hab. Aueerta, Bou-Saada, type in Coll. Oberthur. Lup. 20 millim. 13. Heliothis cognata. Noctua cognata, Frr. Beitr. iii. p. 134, pl. 135. f. 3 (1830); Hiibn. Schmett. Eur. ui. f. 828; Herr.-Schitf. Eur. Schmett. ff. 550, 551; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ; abdomen black with pale segmental rings, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale olive-brown. Fore wing black, overlaid with rufous scales; a curved whitish antemedial line; the postmedial line slightly angled below costa, then oblique, the area between the two. lines whitish tinged with brown towards costa and inner margin, forming a whitish band enclosing the small dark reniform stigma; a narrow pale terminal band with dark streaks on the veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing black, with white medial band reaching inner margin and with irregular edges; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, with the white band extending on inner area to base; reniform black; apical area and a spot above tornus whitish tinged with rufous ; hind wing with some rufous on inner side of medial band at costa and on apical area. Hab. Austria; Huneary, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Easrern Europe; Asta Minor, Lydia, Pontus. Hap. 22 millim. 14. Heliothis cardui. Noctua cardui, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 191. ff. 2, 3 (1786) ; Hiibn. Beitr. ii. pt. 4, pl. 1. f. B; id. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 313; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. vu. pt. 1, p. 311, pl. 119. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Heliothis cardui, var. purpurata, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221 (1903). Fig. 8.—Heliothis cardui, 3. 3. Head and thorax black, clothed with pale olive-brown hair ; abdomen black with pale segmental lines, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale olive-brown. Fore wing black overlaid with rufous HELIOTHIS, 19 scales ; a whitish spot in end of cell conjoined below cell to a band from costa beyond iniddle and forming a Y-shaped band with arms on each side of the reniform ; a pale terminal band traversed by dark streaks on the veins, its inner edge angled inwards in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing black, with white medial band with waved edges not reaching inner margin; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, with the white band produced to base on inner area, the apical area ochreous white; hind wing with the costal area ochreous white. Ab. 1. purpurata. Fore wing more or less suffused with purple. Hab. France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzernanp; Spain ; Traty; Huneary, Frey Coll.; Eastern Europe; Armenra; AsIA Mrivor, Pontus. vp. 22 millim. 15. Heliothis pulchripennis. (Plate LY. fig. 1.) Melicleptria pulchripennis, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 241 (1874); id. Ill. Essay, 62, pl. iii. f. 31; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 288. dabriisen languida, H. Edw. Pap. i. p. 20 (1881). Head, thorax, and abdomen black with grey hair, the head and thorax more or less strongly tinged with purplish crimson; legs with pink hair. Fore wing grey-brown, more or less completely suffused with purplish crimson ; a curved silvery-blue antemedial line; a similar postmedial line slightly excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved, the area between the lines not suffused with crimson except towards costa and inner margin and on the reniform stigma, which often has an ochreous white spot before it and large patch beyond it; a terminal band of the ground-colour with sinuous inner edges, often more or less suffused with crimson. Hind wing black ; the costal area ochreous white to near apex, and a some- what wedge-shaped patch beyond the cell between veins 6 and 2. Underside of both wings greenish grey, the basal area and discoidal spot black, the costal and terminal areas crimson. Ab. 1. languida, The crimson suffusion much reduced. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 6¢,1 9, Grote Coll. Ep. 24-28 millim. 16. Heliothis imperialis. Heliothis imperialis, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 129 (1871); id. Rom. Mém. ii. p- 69, pl. 4. f. 4a, ¢; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with grey-green hair; tips of tegule, meso- and metathorax deep purple ; pectus and legs white. Fore wing black; the basal area deep purple; a grey-green medial band slightly angled outwards below costa, then constricted, and with a small white spot in the cell on its inner edge; the subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and bent outwards to tornus, defined by the area beyond it being grey- green often tinged with purple. Hind wing black; white spots just beyond and below end of cell, often conjoined; cilia white at c2 20 NOCTUID. tips. Underside yellowish white; fore wing with black streak below base of cell, orbicular and reniform black, terminal area black except at apex ; hind wing with black patch on basal inner area conjoined to a discoidal spot and diffused patch near tornus. Hab. Armenta, Caucasus, 5 ¢. vp. 26-30 millim, Larva. Brownish white, paler below; head and 1st somite above tinged with orange; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral and sublateral inter- rupted narrow dark lines. Food-plant, the capsules of Cephelaria procera. 17. Heliothis purpurascens. Noctua purpurascens, Tausch, Mém. Mose. 1809, p. 319, pl. 20. f. 4; Mill. Te. iii. pl. 128. ff. 5-7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Heliothis pulchra, Ky. Bull. Mose. 1842, iii. p. 554, pl. v. f.8; Herr. Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ff. 217-8. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with grey hair; patagia tinged with purple at extremity. Fore wing black overlaid by purple hair; a whitish spot at base; a whitish ¥Y-shaped medial band enclosing the greyish reniform stigma, with some purple on it at costa and inner margin; a diffused grey subterminal straight line. Hind wing black, with white spots just beyond and below end of cell, often conjoined ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, the medial band extending to base on inner area, an apical white patch; hind wing with medial white band, the apical half of costal area black, extending on termen to vein 2. Hab. S8.E. Russia, Sarepta (Christoph), 9 3, 392, Urals, 1 9; Asta Minor, Pontus; Trser, Kuku Noor. vp. 26 millim. Larva. Mill. Icon. iii. p. 247, pl. 128. ff. 5-7. Pale yellow, the ventral surface greyer; head and first and last somites orange; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral and sublateral series of black points. Food-plant, the capsules of Cephelaria tartarica. 18. Heliothis villosa. (Plate LY. fig. 2.) Melicleptria villosa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 531, pl. vi. f. 6 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288. Heliothis paucillus, Grote, Bull. Buff, Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 118, pl. Mee ti (3) 1873). Holiothis persimilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 117, pl. ui. f. 11 (1873). 3g. Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some grey hair ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing black, overlaid with grey and pale rufous scales; traces of a pale curved antemedial line with an elliptical whitish spot beyond it in the cell; a pale postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; a somewhat greyer terminal band. Hind wing black-brown, with small white spot in end of cell and rather larger spots beyond and below its extremity ; cilia white at tips. Under- side black; fore wing with white spots before and beyond the reniform, a white patch on middle of inner area, and some grey at HELLOTHIS. Q} apex ; hind wing with the costal area whitish except towards base, conjoined to spots before and beyond the discoidal black spot and to an apical patch extending to vein 2, a spot below end of cell. 2. Fore wing with white spot in cell before the orbicular stigma; a Y-shaped band on medial area not reaching costa or inner margin ; hind wing with the spots larger. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas bright purple-pink, and with small whitish spots in cell of both wings before middle, the reniform strongly defined.—Colorado, Bullion Mt. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢, California, 1 2 type persimilis, New Mexico, Beulah (Cockerell), 1 2. Hap. 22 millim. *19. Heliothis vacciniz. Meliclepiria vaccinie, H. Edw. Proe. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 184 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. Head and thorax brown ; abdomen black-brown, with segmental whitish lines. Fore wing pale brown with a golden tinge; the basal area darker; antemedial line moderately curved, slightly dentate towards inner margin; medial shade whitish, brown towards costa ; orbicular nearly obsolete ; reniform large, prominent; postmedial line whitish, bent outwards below costa, nearly straight towards inner margin; subterminal line prominently dentate at middle and with four or five short black streaks from it; cilia golden brown with darker patches. Hind wing black, with medial white band broadest below middle, but not reaching inner margin ; a Short white subterminal striga; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, reddish towards costa, and with broad creamy- white medial band, a reniform subapical spot, and irregular terminal band; hind wing black, with reddish-white subcostal patch, an oblong creamy-white discal spot with small spot below it. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Hwp.18 millim. This species 1s unknown to me. 20. Heliothis sueta. (Plate LV. fig. 4.) Heliothis suetus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 117, pl. iii. f. 10 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. Heliothis californicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. 149 (1873). G. Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some grey hair; pectus, legs, and abdomen with whitish hair. Fore wing black, overlaid by grey and purplish-red scales; a somewhat X-shaped medial whitish band formed by spots before and beyond the reniform, conjoined to a quadrate spot below the celi between the indistinct whitish curved antemedial line and the postmedial line, which is excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved. Hind wing black, with large whitish spot beyond the cell and somewhat quadrate spot below its extremity ; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with the white band and black reniform spot very prominent, the apical area suffused with white; hind wing with 22 NOCLUID®. the costal area white from near base, conjoined to a small spot in cell, the large spots beyond and below its extremity, and the white apical area which extends down to vein 2. Fore tibie with three claws on outer side. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 2 ¢ type californicus. Kup. 30 millim, *21. Heliothis honesta. (Plate LV. fig. 3.) Melicleptria honesta, Grote, Pap. i. p. 77 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 2. Black; head, thorax, and abdomen with some grey-white hair; pectus, legs, extremity and ventral surface of abdomen mostly white. Fore wing irrorated with pale olive-brown scales ; the cell with white patches before and beyond the orbicular, confluent with the postmedial white band which is excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved in submedian fold and not extending below vein 1; a maculate white subterminal band, angled inwards in discal fold and at vein 2 and not reaching tornus ; cilia chequered with white. Hind wing with white band just beyond middle from vein 6 to just above inner margin, its inner edge indented at lower angle of cell, then angled inwards below cell; cilia white. Underside of fore wing with the basal costal area white and confluent with the medial band, the whole terminal area white; hind wing white, with black discoidal lunule, patch on middle of inner area, and two patches towards tornus. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Mt. Hood, Mt. Tallac, in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 28 millim. Genus MELAPORPHYRIA. Tepe Melaporphyria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 75 (1874)... imzortua. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, clothed with rough hair; head and thorax clothed with rough hair, frons with rounded prominence; eyes small, reniform ; antenne of male ciliated ; fore tibice spined at sides, with long slender claw on inner side and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 5, 7 from upper angle. 22. Melaporphyria immortua. Melaporphyria immortua, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pp. 75, 220 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. 3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with ochreous and rufous hair ; abdomen black-brown with pale segmental lines. Fore wing blackish, suffused with purple to the postmedial line except on inner margin; the veins grey to the subterminal line; the ante- medial line grey, highly curved and very oblique towards costa and inner margin, with a diffused black band on its inner side; traces of a blackish discoidal mark; the postmedial line grey, oblique MELAPORPHYRIA.—DYSOCNEMIS. 23 and slightly curved, the area beyond it yellow-brown; cilia dark brown mixed with ochreous. Hind wing yellow-brown; the basal half suffused with black to the curved medial line ; diffused blackish Fig. 9.—Melaporphyria immortua, $. }. postmedial and terminal bands. Underside yellow-brown; both wings with the basal area blackish, conjoined to the diffused discoidal spot and curved postmedial band. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Newton, 1 ¢ Grote Coll., New York, Colorado, New Mexico, Gullinas Canon (Cockerell), 1 ¢. Exp. 28 millim. Genus DYSOCNEMIS. Type Dysocnemis, Grote, Revised Check List, p. 34 (1890), non deser. /edladonna. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, clothed with long hair; frons with rounded prominence; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; eyes small, reniform ; antenne of male minutely ciliated ; fore tibix spined at sides ; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing short and broad; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle or shortly stalked. A. Fore wing with the medial area prominently whitish, a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform almost obsolete BISON CL ncrirodogodopcachaposopsoodconuaconsunbonanqecdenoBoneqresaesccce prorupta. b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform prominent...... belladonna. B. Fore wing with the medial area not prominently whitish. a. Hind wing with the whitish medial band not indented by theyblackidiscoidallspotisssecscssscessnccses cossaceaasocseesee sie borealis. }, Hind wing with the whitish medial band indented by Ehekbacke@iscoldalspoteencuscessssncecesonasseeccnectnecssesseee oregonica, 23. Dysocnemis prorupta. Heliothis proruptus, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iv. p. 294 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. Melicleptria venusta, H, Edw. Proce. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 133 (1875). Head and thorax black-brown tinged with crimson ; pectus, legs, and abdomen clothed with long black hair, the anal tuft whitish at extremity. Fore wing black-brown suffused with crimson; the basal area bounded by the black antemedial line, which is excurved below costa and to inner margin; the medial area white, slightly irrorated with fuscous or sometimes suffused with red-brown; the o4 NOCTUIDA. discoidal spot indistinct, blackish, with some red-brown above it on costa; the postmedial line black, oblique from costa to vein 4, where it is strongly angled, then strongly incurved. Hind wing Fig. 10.—Dysoenciis provupta, 3. {.- black, with large white medial patch not reaching inner margin and with its outer edge angled at vein 4; cilia white. Underside of fore wing with the discoidal: spot black and conjoined to a black costal fascia. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, California, 1 2 Grote Coll., ( Walsingham) 12 6,29. Eep. 30 millim. *24. Dysocnemis belladonna. Melicleptria beliadonna, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 20 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. Head and thorax with long brown hair; tarsi whitish : abdomen black, with dorsal brown crest at base. Fore wing rich brown, deepest towards base and inner margin: medial area whitish irrorated with brown, somewhat triangular in shape and_ not reaching costa or inner margin, with the large black-brown orbicular and reniform stigmata on it; postmedial line narrow, blackish, strongly excurved at middle, where it almost touches the slightly sinuous whitish subterminal line; a terminal series of triangular brown spots in the interspaces; cilia brown. Hind wing black, with large discal subelliptical white patch; cilia brown, white at tips. Underside of fore wing black-brown, with large creamy- white discal patch, orbicular and reniform black. Hab. U.S.A., Utah. Hap. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. 25. Dysocnemis borealis, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 6.) 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the two former tinged with rufous. Fore wing with the basal area black and including the small round indistinct black orbicular stigma; no trace of the ante- or postmedial lines; the medial area pale, irrorated and suffused with brown ; the reniform small, black, and rather diffused ; terminal area black-brown. Hind wing black, the basal area including the discoidal spot and followed by a broad yellowish- white postmedial band, which does not reach inner margin and has its outer edge slightly angled at vein 4. Underside of fore wing DYSOCNEMIS.—PYROCLEPTRIA, 20 with large white discal patch enclosing the prominent black reniform stigma; hind wing with yellowish-white band as on upperside. Hab, Canavs, Hudson’s Bay, St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 1 9 type. Hwxp. 28 millim. 26. Dysocnemis oregonica. (Plate LY. fig. 7.) Melicleptria oregonica, H. Edw. Proce, Cal. Ae. Sci. vi. p. 155 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. ¢. Head and thorax black mixed with pale olive hair; abdomen black mixed with grey hair. Fore wing black suffused with pale olive; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, the former round, the latter large, with whitish in the cell before and between them and with a diffused whitish band beyond them to just beyond the postmedial line, which is minutely waved and slightly angled inwards in discal fold, and is excurved from below costa to vein 8, then incurved, or may be almost obsolete; an indistinct pale sub- terminal line slightly waved towards costa. Hind wing black, with some white before the large oblique black discoidal lunule, which has a white band beyond it not reaching inner margin and with its outer edge slightly angled at vein 4; a pale subterminal mark between veins 2 and 4. Underside of both wings with more white; the black spots prominent and a black streak below cell of fore wing. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Washington Terr., 1 ¢, Nevada, 1 o, Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada, 3 ¢, Grote Coll. Ex pp. 28- 38 millim. Genus PYROCLEPTRIA, noy. Type, P. cora. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence; eyes small, reniform ; antenne of male ciliated; head clothed with rough hair ; thorax clothed with rough hair mixed w ‘ith large scales ; fore tibise spined at sides, short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side.and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibiz spined. Fore wing short and broad; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 1] from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. As Eliadiowine WeAdish OFANLO s. 202... 025. . doscaveeascasesee caceslane californica. Basend wing orange-yellows £2. c.vsaselwra.ctaowsensideandentet see cord. 27. Pyrocleptria californica, n. sp. (VDlate LV. fig. 8.) ¢. Head and thorax clothed with grey, pale brown, and black hair ; pectus and legs with brownish-white hair ; abdomen black, with some brownish- white hair and scales. Fore wing reddish brown, mixed with ochreous and a few black scales; a double waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a pale antemedial line defined on each side by black and incurved in cell; claviform indicated by some black scales on its outer edge; orbicular and reniform black, overlaid by rufous scales and with ochreous spots 26 NOCTUID®, between and beyond them; the postmedial line pale defined by black, bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold, and bent inwards below vein 4 to below end of cell, a brownish band between it and the grey subterminal line, which is excurved below costa and at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered brown and black. .Hind wing deep orange; some black suffusion at base and on inner margin; a large black discoidal lunule; a moderately broad terminal black band; cilia ochreous white, blackish at base. Underside of fore wing orange, with streak below the cell; orbicular, reniform, and terminal band black. Hab. U.S.A., California (Walsingham), 1 3 type. Hap. 20 millim. 28. Pyrocleptria cora. Fieliothis cora, Ey. Bull. Mose. 1837, p. 47; id. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 824; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iv. p. 227, pl. 70. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 49. ff. 246, 247; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 22]. Anthecia coreta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 899 (1852). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey hair and the thorax with black scales; pectus and legs brownish ochreous ; abdomen black with ochreous segmental lines, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing red-brown; a subbasal black striga from costa; the ante- and postmedial lines grey arising from black costal strise, the former highly curved, the latter excurved to Fig. 11.—Pyrocleptria cora, G. 3. vein 4, then strongly incurved : a dark medial shade obtusely angled at lower angle of cell; grey streaks on the veins of medial area except towards costa, and short streaks on the veins beyond the postmedial line, where there is some darker brown suffusion ; an indistinct minutely waved subterminal line, with a black mark on its inner side at costa; fine brown lines on termen and through the cilia. Hind wing orange ; the base and inner margin black: a large black discoidal lunule sometimes conjoined to the black basal area; a moderately broad terminal black band with slightly sinuous inner edge. Underside orange; fore wing with point in cell, spot below it, the reniform, and a curved postmedial band forking towards costa black ; hind wing with black discoidal lunule; traces of a terminal band suffused with red towards apex. Hab. Huneary; S. Russta, Sarepta, 3 gd, 2 9; Urats, 1 CS ; W. Srperia, Altai; Moneoria; EK. Sinprra; Amur. wp. 24 millim. PSEUDOTAMILA. 27 Genus PS9EUDOTAMILA. Type Pseudotamila, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. x. p. 238 (1883)......... vanella. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliqne, extending to well beyond the frons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; frons with large rounded prominence ; eyes small, reniform ; antenne of male ciliated ; head and thorax ‘clothed with large scales and hair, the metathorax with crest; fore tibiz rather short.and broad, spined at sides, and with long curved claw on inner side at extremity, and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; ‘6, 7 from upper angle. Ape iINIC WING OPANGE. 5. ;.ceeeuccaseceeosivsacUsesentevedesswncddersaedncs coptosa, B. Hind wing black. a. Hind wing with antemedial whitish band and discal spot. vanedla. 6, Hind wing with white discal spot with another spot below it. perminuta. 29. Pseudotamila copiosa. (Plate LV. fig. 9.) Heliothis copiosa, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 23. ¢. Head and thorax clothed with rufous, black, and a few grey scales; abdomen black, with grey segmental lines, the ventral surface yellowish. Fore wing red-brown ; a yellowish spot at base of costa; a highly excurved and slightly waved antemedial grey line; the postmedial line oblique towards costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, the area between the lines pale suffused with black; the reniform blackish with some rufous before it, placed on the medial shade which is oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; the subterminal line with some black before it at costa and the area beyond it tinged with grey, angled outwards at vein 7, then excurved and dentate, incurved below vein 2. Hind wing deep orange; the base black, extending on inner margin almost to join the terminal black band which has a sinuous inner edge ; a large oblong black discoidal spot. Underside orange; fore wing with spots in and below middle of cell, the reniform stigma and postmedial band black ; hind wing with short subbasal streak below the cell, discoidal spot, and subterminal band obsolescent towards costa, black. Hab, W.Cutxa, Hou-Kow, 10,000 ft.,1 ¢ type. vp. 28 millim. 30. Pseudotamila vanella. Tamila vanella, Grote, Can, Ent. xi. p. 197 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p: 287 Head and thorax clothed with black-brown, rufous, and white scales; palpi below, pectus, and legs clothed with greyish-white hair; abdomen black, with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing black, overlaid by rufous or yinous-red and white scales ; a curved white 28 NOCTUID&. subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line black, slightly excurved between middle of cell and vein 1; the medial area white, tinged with rufous towards postmedial line and with grey towards inner margin; the reniform represented by a whitish discoidal line on a dark patch and with dark suffusion above it; the postmedial line white defined by brown, minutely waved, excuryed from costa to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line formed by a series of dentate black and white marks, angled inwards to the postmedial line at discal fold, then excurved and again angled inwards in submedian fold; a terminal series of black Fig. 12.—Pseudotamila vanella, g. 1. points; cilia chequered black-brown and whitish. Hind wing black, with white medial band narrowing to above inner margin, which it does not reach, and with a large oblique discoidal spot connected with the terminal black area ; a more or less developed whitish subterminal line between veins 5 and 2; underside of fore wing white, the costal area rufous, the basal area in and below cell, a large discoidal spot, and postmedial band black; hind wing with the costal area rufous. Hab, U.S.A., Nevada, 1 3 type, California (Walsinyham), 3 3, 19. exp. 22 millim. *31. Pseudotamila perminuta. (Plate LIX. fig. 2.) Melicleptria perminuia, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 21 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 287. Fore wing dark brown, irrorated with white scales; a curved whitish antemedial line; reniform blackish, defined by the Y-shaped medial whitish band, which does not reach costa or inner margin ; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 4+, where it is strongly angled outwards, then greatly incuryed. Hind wing black, with pure white discal spot and another below it towards inner margin. Underside of fore wing blaek, with broad medial white band and discal spot. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Hap. 13 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from specimen in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. RAGHUVA. 29 Genus RAGHUVA. me Raghuva, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 362....... OOneee seceseseee CONfertissima. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antennz of male somewhat laminate and ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibisee short and broad, with long curved claw on inner sideand short claw on outer; mid and hind tibix spined. Fore wing rather short and broad; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. Sucr. I. Fore wing of male with rather large glandular swelling on middle of costa and prominent semihyaline elongate brands below costa and in cell, the neuration much distorted. 32. Raghuva stigmatia, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax ochreous brown mixed with greyish ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing greyish ochreous ; clavi- form a narrow elongate streak defined by some blackish scales and arising from near base; median nervure obscurely streaked with brown; reniform with brownish outline and centre, distorted by Fig. 13.—Raghuva stigmatia, 3. HIM the brand in cell; postmedial line ill-defined, brownish, dentate with some whitish on its outer edge; a series of brownish somewhat. dentate marks on termen and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish ochreous tinged with brown; the cilia whitish with a dark line near base ; the underside with indistinct discoidal spot, postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Hab. Basvrotand, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 3 ; C. Cotony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 3 type. Hap. 30 millim. Secr. II, Fore wing of male with small glandular swelling on middle of costa and elongate depressions below middle of costa and in cell. A Fore wing with dentate postmedial line. a. Fore wing with radiating streaks on the veins of ENaC eioec anne dnoso0 oclsdnuadoriguadedsasaroecosceD000N08 multiradiata. b. Fore wing without radiating streaks on the veins of KOMMUMAMATCAS pnsojaeatiesmeercrisnscliaar cei atcstesinecieectee sce perdentata. 30 NOCTUID®. B. Fore wing with non-dentate postmedial line. a. Hind wing white, with large black discoidal spot and broad\terminalfuscons) band <--.css.e-4-eeeeeee nee see es discalis. (o, Vabwanel qavayer WaMiiRoNAeT AUECOWE) ghasooagscsacsoossshoKosadoonsnbE cand. C. Fore wing with postmedial series of black points. a. Fore wing with discoidal spot, no fuscous fascia on MMCSCIAN CNEL VUNG) on ssecer nsec coc ceecce ORE eee EERE EEE EE Rene confertissina.. 6. Fore wing without discoidal spot, a fuscous fascia on MEdIAnmenvune and! vel 4 .c-reaeeeee seen eEeeeeeeeatee eee perstriata. 33. Raghuva multiradiata. (Plate LV. fig. 10.) Raghuva multiradiata, Ampsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 257 (1902). Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown mixed with black ; antenne blackish ; tarsi black, with pale rings. Fore wing pale olive-brown ; the costa black; a subbasal dentate black line from costa to vein 1, with some rufous and white between it and the waved black antemedial line, which is acutely angled outwards above inner margin: claviform very large and elongate, with brown outline and pale streak defined by brown streaks at middle; orbicular and reniform with blackish outline and centre, the former elliptical, the latter large ; the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and defined by white on outer side; the terminal area dark olive- brown, with pale hastate marks with short black streaks on the veins extending from the postmedial line to termen; a terminal series of black spots; cilia pale and black. Hind wing fuscous brown, with obscure rufous subterminal patch between veins 2 and 4. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except terminal area; reniform black ; hind wing with black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 3g, Athi R. (Betton), 1 9; Masnonaranp, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 3 type. Eup. 30 millim. 34. Raghuva perdentata, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 11.) ¢. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with black; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with rufous along median nervure, between veins 2 and 5 and beyond the postmedial line; a highly dentate fuscous antemedial line; orbicular small, round, whitish with fuscous outline and centre; reniform fuscous, with irregular outline; the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then highly dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and defined by white on outer side; some pale and black marks on apical part of costa and a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous, with pale line through them. Hind wing ochreous white, with ill-defined fuscous postmedial line between veins 4 and 2, and slight dentate brown terminal marks on the veins towards apex. Underside of fore wing with the reniform black, a curved fuscous postmedial band. 2. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. Br. BK. Arrica, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 g type; Bursa, Myingyan (Watson), 1 2. Hap. 22-24 millim. RAGHUVA. 3li 35. Raghuva discalis, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 12.) @. Head and thorax pale olive-brown ; abdomen pale irrorated with black, and with diffused dorsal black bands. Fore wing pale olive-brown, the costal area, the median nervure, and veins 3, 4, and 6 to the postmedial line suffused with white; a diffused blackish fascia below base of cell, some brown above median nervure and some black scales on a discoidal brown patch ; the postmedial dark line strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and somewhat sinuous, defined by whitish on outer side, beyond which is a diffused brown band; a terminal series of black points on a brown line. Hind wing whitish; the basal, costal, and inner area suffused with brown ; a large black discoidal lunule; a broad blackish postmedial band diffused to termen in places ; cilia white, with a dark line at base. Underside of fore wing whitish, the costal area brown, blackish streaks above and below base of median nervure, the reniform and curved postmedial band black. Hind wing white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a short black streak in base of cell, a large discoidal lunule and postmedial streaks on veins 2, 3, 4, and 6. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Athi R. (Betton), 1 9 type. Hwp. 26 millim. 36. Raghuva cana, n.sp. (Plate LV. fig. 13.) Q. Head and thorax grey-white ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface white irrorated with black. Fore wing with the basal half and costal area white irrorated with black ; two black points in cell before upper angle and one beyond the angle; a postmedial fuscous line with slight black striz on the veins strongly excurved from below costa to vein 4, then very oblique, the area beyond it except towards costa ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with black ; an oblique fuscous line from termen just below apex to inner margin before tornus; a fine white terminal line; cilia grey, with two fine white lines through them. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia white with brown line at base. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with the termen whitish. Hab, Br. KE. Arrica, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 2 type, Athi-ya- Mawe (Betton), 1 9. Havp. 26 millim. 37. Raghuva confertissima. Leucania confertissima, Wk. xxxii. 625 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. L80. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous brown; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, and with rufous streaks on the veins; traces of a waved antemedial line, with the diffused fuscous claviform on its outer edge; the orbicular represented by a fuscous point; the reniform obscure fuscous; a postmedial series of black points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; some obscure dentate fuscous marks sometimes present on termen ; a B2 NOCTUID. black point on costa before apex and a terminal series. Hind wing ochreous white, with traces of a subterminal dark band. Fig. 14.—Raghuva confertissima, §. +. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) Hab. 8. Inpta, Gooty (Campbell), 1 9, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 3d type. Exp. 26-28 millim. 38. Raghuva perstriata, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 14.) ¢. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous; an obscure diffused fuscous fascia along median nervure and above vein 4 to termen; antemedial black points on median nervure and vein 1; a curved postmedial series of black points on the veins; a minute black streak on costa before apex and a terminal series of points. Hind wing ochreous. Hab. N.W. Himatayas, Kangra, 1 ¢ type. xp. 30 millim. Genus NEOCLEPTRIA, nov. Type, V. punctifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons and fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous ridge across it; eyes large, naked ; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair, without crests; fore tibize with slender curved claw on inner side and shorter claw on outer; mid and hind tibize spined; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell: 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. 39. Neocleptria punctifera. Heliothis spinose, Wik. xi. 686 (1857), nee Guen. — Heliothis punctifera, W1k. xi. 691 (1857). Heliothis leucatma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 368. Head and thorax grey mixed with black and often tinged with rufous; abdomen whitish dorsally, strongly irrorated with black especially in female. Fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with black and more or less strongly suffused with rufous; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line angled outwards below costa and cell and bent outwards above inner margin, with a less distinct line on its inner edge; claviform often represented by a diffused blackish patch; orbicular and reniform brown-edged and with fuscous centres, the former round, the latter with two black points above it on costa ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell NEOCLEPTRIA.—RHODOCLEPTRIA. 33° to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and with indistinct line beyond it; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa, inwards at discal fold, then excurved and with dark mark on its inner side at costa; a terminal series of black points and often some black marks at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous and rutous. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas sometimes tinged with fuscous; a more Fig. 15. Neocleptria punctifera, 3. 3. or less prominent dark discoidal lunule; the terminal area black, with diffused inner edge and often with pale subterminal spot at middle; cilia white, with dark line at base. Underside white ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata black; both wings with fuscous postmedial band. Hab. N. Ausrratia, Roebuck B. (J. J. Walker), 3 9 ; W. Aus- TrALIA, Sherlock R. (Clements), 3 3,5 2, Geraldton (Saunders), 29; N. 8. Wares, Broken Hill (Lower), 3 g¢,6 9; Vuicrorta, . Melbourne; hab.? 1 ¢,5 @ type. wp. 32-38 millim. Genus RHODOCLEPTRIA, nov. Type, 2. incarnata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd joint short; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennze of male almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair, without crests ; fore tibiz short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibix spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle 40. Rhodocleptria incarnata. Noctua incarnata, Freyer, Beitr. iii. pl. 256, f. 4 (1839), & iv. pl. 383; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. Heliothis boisduvalii, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 163 (1840) ; Dup. Lép. Fr, Suppl. iii. pl. 38. f.5; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 52. f. 262. Head and thorax pale olive-green, more or less strongly tinged with pink; hair on pectus white, on legs pink; abdomen brownish white, with the dorsal crest at base and ventral surface pink. Fore wing olive-yellow ; the costa tinged with pink with dark points on it; the orbicular represented by a dark point; the reniform a small VOL. IV. D 34 NOCTUID H. dark lunule on the medial shade, which is angled at lower angle of cell, then oblique: the postmedial line represented by a curved series of dark points or obsolete; the subterminal line very in- distinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia pink. Hind wing white ; the basal area suffused with dark brown ; the discoidal spot diffused; the terminal area broadly blackish, Fig. 16.—Rhodocleptria trcarnata, 3. j with pale patch on middle of termen; cilia pink. Underside of both wings with the marginal areas broadly pink ; fore wing with the reniform and a broad fascia below the cell confiuent with the postmedial band blackish. Hab. Sparx; Averers; Huneary; Barxans; 8. Russra, Sarepta, 7 $,2 9, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Anwenta; Asta Minor, Taurus, 1 o, Zeller Coll., Pontus, Lydia; Syrma; ©. Asta. Lap. 34-36 millim. Larva. Pale yellow; head spotted with black; a dark dorsal line ; warts black; 1st somite with two subdorsal warts in front, the lower confluent with a large one behind, three lateral and one sublateral ; 2nd and 3rd somites with two transverse subdorsal warts, three lateral behind and two lower down in front, and one sublateral; the abdominal somites with the two subdorsal warts placed longitudinally, three lateral and one sublateral ; 2nd to anal somites with subdorsal orange patches and slight subdorsal and lateral lines. Genus CHLORIDEA. Type. Chlovidea, Westw. Jardine’s Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 198 (1841)...... VIPESCENS. Aspila, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 174 (1852) .....--..ceee cence eens e eee ee es Virescens, Heiiocheilus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 828 (1865) ...... paradoxus. Heliothas: elaiibis enti num € Oesee seeee ae eieetceesttsees ere een eteee dipsacea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with rough hair in front and projecting to just beyond frons, which has a rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; antenne ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales; fore tibix spined at sides and with a slender apical pair of claws ; mid and hind tibiz spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellular ; 6, 7 from upper angle. i CHLORIDEA. 3D Secr. I. (Heliocheilus). Fore wing of male with the costa dilated and thickened at middle, with an elliptical patch of ribbed hyaline membrane below it anda more elongate patch in the cell; the subcostal nervure bent downwards and the veins from its extremity distorted. AupEndcwinetulvousryellOw:... 2:54. <<-ceousseeecmendodesesostecss oo0- lupata. B. Hind wing brown, with fulvous-yellow subterminal pitch... a/bidentina. C. Hind wing black, with ochreous postmedial band ............ Fervens. D. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area blackish. a. Hind wing with black fasciz in submedian fold and on ANU G HEMATOMA tan cac tnt. sane niece seen neretm anne eect ce ese et translucens. b. Hind wing without black fascize in submedian fold and on inner margin. a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line moderately dentate and produced to white points ................--sesccoreoss- paradoxa. bo‘. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly dentate and defined by white throughout. a>, Hind wing with the postmedial line incurved at OUR Ana csc saeeptenrse eet eps tna se gies acase cinnsteceeceee a cystiphora. }°. Hind wing with the postmedial line not incurved at vein 4..... SoCo AEOSEdSE So pEUEHE BEER OBOE ERC BORUr tenraadt ote hyalosticta. 41. Chloridea lupata. (Plate LV. fig. 16.) FHcliothis lupatus, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 224 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 281. Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with fulvous on terminal half; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; traces of a waved ante- medial line; orbicular represented by a blackish point in cell: reniform blackish, with white discoidal line on it; a medial shade from lower angle of cell toinner margin ; the postmedial line formed by a series of black points with white points on their outer edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and with a rufous band on its outer edge; a terminal series of black points; cilia fuscous. Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous, espe- cially towards termen; an indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line ; a slight brown terminal line and line at base of cilia except towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform prominent. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 9 type. Hap. 34 millim. 42. Chloridea albidentina. (Plate LY. fig. 15.) Perigea albidentina, W\k. xxxii. 680 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 269. 2. Head and thorax dull brown; abdomen brownish ochreous irrorated with dark scales. Fore wing ochreous brown suffused with rufous ; the antemedial line represented by some white points ; the orbicular a small dark spot with white centre; reniform diffused, dark with white centre; the postmedial line dentate, white with black points on its inner side, curved from costa to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, and with a diffused rufous band on its inner edge ; some black points on termen; cilia fuscous. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with dark brown and paler towards base; an oblique dis- p2 36 NOCTUID!. coidal bar; an ochreous-red patch on termen between veins 4 and 1. Underside reddish ochreous ; fore wing with the orbicular and reni- form black ; both wings with obscure postmedial band. Hab. U.S.A., Florida (Doubleday), 1 Q type. xp. 30 millim. 43. Chloridea fervens. (Plate LV. fig. 19.) Heliothis fervens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 186. Heliothis foveolatus, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 263; id. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 552, pl. 10. f. 9; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. $. Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous and with paler segmental lines and anal tuft. Fore wing red-brown, rather redder towards inner margin; the markings obsolete except a somewhat curved postmedial dark shade. Hind wing black, with ochreous postmedial band from costa to vein 1, towards which it is reduced to two small spots ; cilia pale. Q. Head and thorax dark chestnut ; pectus and legs ochreous, the tibie and tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen black, with rufous segmental bands, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface pale rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing chestnut, darkest on inner and terminal areas; the subbasal and antemedial lines almost obsolete; the orbicular and reniform represented by indistinct blackish patches; the postmedial line very indistinct, minutely waved, incurved below vein 3; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line. Hind wing black, with pale ochreous spot beyond the cell; the termen irrorated with grey; cilia tipped with white. Under- side of fore wing with the disk black ; the orbicular and reniform black, with ochreous-white patches before and beyond them; hind wing with the costal area rufous, the rest of medial area whitish with large black discoidal lunule. Ab. 1. Hind wing with pale patches in and below cell, a pale dentate mark on middle of termen.—W. China. Hab. Amurtand, Ussuri; Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 2 type; W. Curna, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 9. Exp. 32 millim. ; *44, Chloridea translucens. Heliocheilus translucens, Feld, Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 49 (1874); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 176. ¢. Head and thorax pale olive-brown ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale olive-brown ; traces of a sub- basal line ; a sinuous antemedial line angled outwards on median nervure ; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; some whitish before the indistinct dentate postmedial line, which is excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the area between it and the indistinct pale sinuous subterminal line tinged with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous whitish; a large black discoidal lunule; a broad terminal black band emitting fasciz to base in submedian fold and on inner margin ; cilia pale. Hab. N.W. Hraatayas, Urni (Stoliczka), type t fo in Coll. Roth- schild, vp. 28 millim. CHLORIDEA. 37 45. Chloridea paradoxa. Heliocheilus paradoxus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iv. p, 829, pl. ii. ff. 3-5 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 269. 3. Pale brownish ochreous. Fore wing with the orbicular usually present as a dark point above median nervure ; reniform represented by an obscure spot ; the postmedial line represented by a curved series of dark points with white points on their outer edge ; some dark points on termen usually present ; cilia brownish. Hind wing ochreous white, with diffused dark discoidal spot ; traces of a curved postmedial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous with a pale patch at middle. Underside of fore wing with the reniform large and black and with a curved dark band beyond it ; hind wing with terminal black spot below vein 2. Fig. 17.—Chloridea paradoxa, 3. }- ©. Fore wing with the markings more developed, the orbicular and reniform spots distinct; a dentate black postmedial line. Ab. 1. S$ @ much browner ; fore wing irrorated with black ; the clavitorm, orbicular, and reniform stigmata of female prominent and with white centres; the postmedial line with fuscous band on its outer edge ; hind wing with the basal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A.,1 3,19; Texas, Alabama, 1 ¢, Colorado, 2 ¢. Exp. 26-32 millim. *46. Chloridea cystiphora. (Plate LXI. fig. 1.) Anthecia eystiphora, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 172 (1860) ¢. Anthecia inflata, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 172 (1860) ¢. Anthecia onca, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 172 (1860) 9. ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown: abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, grey below. Fore wing grey mixed with brown ; the antemedial line waved, interrupted by the hyaline streaks except at costa and from cell to inner margin; claviform well developed, blackish ; orbicular obliterated by the hyaline streaks ; reniform large, with blackish centre and ochreous annulus defined by black; postmedial line strongly dentate, black defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, defined by brown suffusion before and beyond it, dentate and angled inwards in discal fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale ochreous ; the basal area suffused with brown; a brown discoidal bar ; a strong 38 NOCTUIDZ. brown postmedial line incurved below vein 4; terminal area brown, with ochreous spots in discal fold and on each side of vein 3. Underside whitish ; fore wing with black discoidal patch and curved postmedial band; hind wing with fuscous discoidal bar, sinuous postmedial line incurved below vein 4, and indistinct subterminal line with black spots at discal and submedian folds. Q. Fore wing, orbicular with blackish centre and ochreous annulus defined by black. Hab. Payama, type 7 din Mus. Stockholm; Garapacos Is., type T 2 onca in Mus. Stockholm ; Sr. Josrpn Is.; ? Hawan, Honolulu, type T ¢ inflata in Mus, Stockholm. Fup. 30 millim. 47. Chloridea hyalosticta. (Plate LV. fig. 17.) Heliothis hyalosticta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 507 (1896). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey irrorated with dark scales. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with dark scales ; antemedial and medial dark points on costa; reniform represented by a fuscous discoidal bar ; the postmedial line curved, highly dentate, whitish with dark streaks on the veins on its inner side and a brownish spot beyond it on costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown; a discoidal bar, curved postmedial line, traces of a brown subterminal band, and some black points on termen. Underside of fore wing with the reniform prominent, black. Q. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform blackish with pale annuli defined by a dark line, the former elongate; an obscure brown band beyond the postmedial line; the underside with the orbicular linear, black. Hab. Stxv, Karachi (Swinkoc), 1 ¢ type, Bhuj (Nurse), 1 Q ; Burma, Thyetmyo (Watson), 1 2. up. 3 24, 2 28 millim. Sect. IL. (Chloridea). Fore wing of male normal. A. Hind wing with large black discoidal spot. f a. Fore wing with distinct whitish subterminal line not incurved at discal fold .............c0seeeerseneesseeree eee ees ononis. b. Fore wing with the subterminal line indistinct and slightly incurved at discal fold. a}. Fore wing with the terminal area as dark as post- HAGEL ES) Gapguo oooebooeobosuodebeodosode es) _ cceAccRce dejeani. b'. Fore wing with the terminal area paler than the postmedial area. a®, Hind wing with the inner edge of terminal dark area angled outwards at vein 4 .......-.+.seeeee eee dipsaced. 2. Hind wing with the inner edge of terminal dark area not angled outwards at vein 4......-+..-.00++. phloxiphaga. B. Hind wing without large black discoidal spot. a. Fore wing without oblique antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines. a, Hind wing with the basal area blackish ............... metachrisea. b!. Hind wing with the basal area pale. a2. Fore wing with subterminal black pointabove tornus. a®, Fore wing with prominent dark marks on costa above reniform stigma and at postmedial band. peltigera. Co We) CHLORIDEA. 53, Fore wing without prominent dark marks on COS late esse saccsdse-s cere nace diese ceriel vas senseless nubigerd. 6, Fore wing without subterminal black point above tornus, «@. Fore wing without pink costal fascia. «e*, Fore wing with the inner area not suffused with rufous and fuscous. @. Fore wing with the reniform stigma large aM edidanrkic cc... scndogastascear- en eeetree meessoee seutuligera. }°. Fore wing with the reniform stigma obso- lescent. a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line in- distinct and strongly dentate ........... . armigera. 6°. Fore wing with the postmedial line distinct, double, and hardly dentate ... assulta. }*, Fore wing with the inner area suffused with HULOUs TaN Mp MIsCOUsmee aac ceee eis tastes ease wvanthiata. b3, Kore wing with pink costal fascia.................. chilensis. 5, Fore wing with oblique antemedial, medial, and post- mre cite WIM OS Ntsc seeiaw cssices necesosteseveceseess Facanesecone virescens. 8. Chloridea ononis. Noctua ononis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p- 143; Hsp. Schinett. Eur. iv. pl. 172. ff. 4-6; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pl. 63. f. 312; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 119. iS 3; Oberth. Et. Ent. xvill. p. 44, pl. 111. f. 41; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Melicleptria septentr ionalis, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p.45 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with olive-grey hairs, the ventral surface with white hair. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale olive-brown ; the basal area usually reddish brown to near the antemedial line which is indistinct and waved; the orbicular a very indistinct dark ring-mark; the reniform olive-brown with blackish outline and placed ona medial brown band which is oblique from it to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved to the outer edge of medial band, and with a dark band from just beyond it to the pale diffused subterminal line which is slightly angled inwards at vein 6; an obscure terminal series of dark points some- times present. Hind wing black, with short whitish streak usually present in cell before the large oblique biack discoidal lunule, which has a whitish band beyond it not reaching inner margin and some- times interrupted at the lower extremity of discoidal lunule; more or less prominent subterminal white spots above veins 2 and 33 cilia white, with their bases dark on apical half. Underside whitish, with the discoidal spots and postmedial band black; fore wing with black orbicular and streak below base of cell. Hab. Hupson’s Bay Terr.; Br. Cotumsia, Calgary; USA, Colorado (Cockerell), 1 d ; Franck; Gurmany, Zeller Coll, 3d, 2 9 ; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll., 1g,1 9; Ivaty: Avsrri; Hun- GARY; S.E. Russta ; ARMCENTA ‘ ; Caene AsIA; SIBERIA ; “Anco ane Centr. & W. Carna. Lup. 28-32 millim. 40 NOCTUIDA. 49. Chloridea dejeani. Heliothis dejeani, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p. 44, pl. iii. f. 40 (1893). Q. Head and thorax pale olive-brown mixed with grey ; pectus clothed with grey hair; legs mostly black; abdomen black with pale segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale olive-brown, the inner and terminal areas dark ; traces of a waved antemedial line; the orbicular and reniform represented by obscure black patches, the latter with black point above it on costa; the postmedial line minutely waved, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, the area beyond it dark, especially before the indistinct waved subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous white, the basal area suffused with black to the large black discoidal lunule, the inner margin black; a broad black terminal band, its inner edge slightly angled outwards above vein 4, then incurved; traces of a pale patch at middle of termen; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing with the disk white, the orbicular and reniform prominent, black ; hind wing with basal black streaks below the cell. 3. Fore wing with the orbicular absent on upper and under sides ; a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; hind wing without trace of pale patch on termen. Hab. W. Cutna, Ni-tou, 1 9, Ta-Tsien-lu. wp. 32 millim. 50. Chloridea dipsacea. Noctua dipsacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p.856 (1766); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 172. ff. 1-3; Hitbn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 311; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 119. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Heliothis maritima, Grasl. Aun. Soc, Ent. Fr. (3) iii. p. 68, pl. 7 (1855). Heliothis sperguiarie, Led. Noet. Eur. p. 230 (1857). Heliothis adaucta, Butl, Tl. Het. B. M. iii. p. 19, pl. 45. f. 4 (1878). Head and thorax pale brownish tinged with olive; abdomen olive-grey irrorated with black, thickly on dorsal surface, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale olive-grey ; the subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; an indistinct, irregularly- dentate antemedial line; the orbicular usually represented by three black points in the form of a triangle ; reniform indistinct dusky or prominently black, with black points round its edge; an indistinct dentate medial line from cell to inner margin, often with an oblique shade on its inner edge to the antemedial line at inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with black points on the veins at extremity of teeth, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards above vein 5 and incurved below vein 3; a brown band between the postmedial and subterminal lines, below vein 3 extending to the medial line; the subterminal line pale, with dark mark on its inner side at costa and points on the veins, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of black points or spots. Hind wing ochreous white; the inner and costal areas suffused with black; a large black discoidal spot ; the terminal area black, its inner edge angled outwards at veins 4 and 1 and incurved between those points ; a bidentate pale CHLORIDEA. 4] subterminal patch between veins 2 and 4; cilia white, with fuscous line at base towards apex. Underside whitish; fore wing with the basal half of inner area, the orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band black; hind wing with the markings of upperside showing indistinctly through. Ab. 1. maritima. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more rufous; hind wing more fulyous yellow.—France, Canaries, Japan, Corea. Hab. Kvurorr except polar region, Britain, France,2 ¢ , Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Canartzs (Leech), 1 ¢ ; Syrra, Lebanon, 19, Burma, Ss, 1 2 ; KE. Turkestan, Yarkand, li ¢ ; Amur, 1 9 ; Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 2 6, 1 2, Oiwake (Pryer) 1 2, (Maries) 1 $6,122, (Jonas) 1 $,1 9 type adaucta; N. Cuina, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 9; W. Cara, Hou-kou, 2 ¢; N.W. Hrmatayas, Hunza (Sir M. Conway), 1 9, Cashmir, Sind Valley, 1 d6, 1 9, Dras (Leech), 1 3,12. Hep. 26-38 millim. Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 109; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 162, pl. 245. f. 3. Green to purplish brown; dorsal line dark-edged; subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged below ; spiracular line green or yellowish ; subspiracular line white; head green, pink, or yellowish, brown- speckled. Food-plants: Linaria, Centaurea, Ononis, Ke. 8, 9. 51. Chloridea phloxiphaga. (Plate LV. fig. 21.) Heliothis phioxiphagus, Grote & Rob. Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 187 (1867). Heliothis phlogophaqus, Grote, List of N.-American Moths, p. 36 (1882) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 8300; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 270. Heliothis acesias, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 108. f. 42 (1874). Heliothis luteitinctus, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 426. Heliothis interjacens, Grote, Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 80 (1880). Heliothis armiger, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 299 (part.), nee Hibn. Head and thorax olive-brown ; pectus and legs paler; abdomen whitish irrorated with black, thickly on dorsum, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale olive-brown ; the subbasal line repre- sented by black points below costa and cell, the antemedial line by points on the veins, the orbicular by three points in a triangle; the reniform indistinct or rather prominent, blackish, with points on its edges placed on the medial shade, which is angled at lower angle of cell, then oblique ; an indistinct dentate postmedial line with black points on the veins at extremity of teeth, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at vein 5 and incurved below 3, the area between it and the subterminal series of points slightly darker, this series with a dark mark on its inner edge at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of black points : cilia dark brown. Hind wing ochreous white; the basal area streaked with black; a large black discoidal lunule; the terminal area broadly black, with slightly waved inner edge, and with a subterminal pale dentate mark between veins 4 and 2; cilia whitish, dark at base. Underside whitish; fore wing with streak below base of cell, orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band black ; hind 49 NOCTUID 2. wing with the discoidal lunule black ; a curved postmedial line with black patch beyond it extending to termen below vein 2. Ab. 1. interjacens: pale ochreous tinged with rufous. Ab. 2. lutettincta: hind wing with the ground-colour orange- yellow. Hab. Br. Cotumpia; U.S.A., C., W., & S. States, N. Illinois, 1 3,1 Q type Juteitinctus, Utah, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, California (Walsingham), 4 3,4 9, Havilah, 6 ¢, 3 9 type wterjacens ; Mnxico (Hoege), 1 5,1 2, Milpas (Forrer),1 3, 1 2, EI Paso (Godman), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. Eup. 32-36 millim. Larva. Coquillet, Papilio, i. p. 56. (Redescribed.) Head 2:7 millim., green, brownish freckled on the vertex, epistoma whitish. Body green, traces of whitish dorsal and subdorsal lines; cervical shield not cornified. Skin white, granular. Stigmatal band broad, whitish green, white-edged below. Dorsal line obscure, geminate, blackish filled. Tubercles raised, conical, small, black. Spiracles black-rimmed. Food-plant, Grindelia squarrosa. 7-8.—-H. G. D. 52. Chloridea metachrisea, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 18.) 2. Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with reddish brown; abdomen fuscous brown with orange segmental bands, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black. Fore wing greyish, suffused with olive-brown and irrorated with a few dark scales; an obscure dark waved subbasal line; the antemedial line strongly incurved in cell, and excurved below costa and cell and strongly above inner margin, the orbicular an obscure blackish spot with some points beyond it from subcostal nervure to inner margin towards which it becomes a waved line; reniform with greyish centre and fuscous outline on a diffused brown patch extending to costa and with the obliquely waved medial shade from it to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, and with the area between it and the lunulate sub- terminal line darker, this line having a dark patch on costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 2; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing deep orange; the basal area suffused with black to the discoidal lunule ; a broad terminal black band incurved below vein 4; the inner area dark. Underside of fore wing orange; the orbicular and reniform black ; the basal half of inner area and postmedial band fuscous. Hab, Manascascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 2 type. vp. 32 millim. 53. Chloridea peltigera. Noctua peltigera, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pl. 63. f.310; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 119. f.5; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 109; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Phalena-noctua alphea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 99, pl. 250 F (1779). Noctua florentina, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 135. f. 2 (1788). CHLORIDEA. 43 Phalena charmione, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 162, pl. 56. f. 10 (1791). Noctua barbara, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 111 (1794). Phalena straminea, Donovy. Brit. Ins, ii. pl. 61 (1813). Head and thorax ochreous yellow tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous, slightly tinged with rufous; the subbasal line represented by minute points on costa and median nervure; the antemedial line indistinct, with brown point on costa, angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a slight rufous mark, the orbicular by a brown point; the reniform with greyish centre and brown outline connected with costa by a brown mark with a striga on its outer edge; an oblique waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, with white points at extremity of teeth, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, with a rufous band on its outer side defining the sub- terminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points and a more prominent spot above tornus. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the veins and discoidal lunule brown; the terminal area brown, with diffused inner edge and pale subterminal patch at middle ; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside white ; fore wing with the reniform black; both wings with brown band beyond the postmedial line. Ab. 1. 2. Hind wing orange-yellow.—S. Africa. Hab. KEvrorn, C. & Southern; Britain, Spain, 1 ¢,1 9, Frey ‘Coll., Gibraltar, 1 ¢, Sicily, 6 ¢,1 2; Morocco, Tangier (Leech), 1 5,1 2, Mogador (Leech), 2 g ; Canartes (Godman, Leech), 1 3, 19; C. Conony, 1 6,2 9; Asta Mrvor, Taurus, 1 ¢, Anatolia, Boz Dagh, 1 ¢,1 9; Syria, 1 g, Lebanon (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 2; Persta, Fao (Cumming), 1 ¢; N.W. Himatayas, Dalhousie (Har- ford), 1 3,1 9, Khairabad (Verbury), 1 3; Nupat (Hardwicke), 246; Kuten,1 6,19. Exp. 34-40 millim. Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 109; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 158, pl. 245. f. 4. Green or ochreous reddish with white dots; dorsal and subdorsal lines darker; spiracular line white ; head green or brownish. Food- plants: Ononis, Pyrethrum, Arenaria, Ke. 5-8. 54+. Chloridea nubigera. Heliothis nwhigera, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 366 (1845) ; Ramb, Cat. Lép. 8. And. pl. 12. f. 5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. Heliothis perigeoides, Moore, P, Z. 8. 1881, p. 361. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; pectus white ; abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous, tinged with rufous or greyish brown; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a highly waved antemedial line with dark points on the veins; claviform with indistinct brown outline and sometimes a dark centre; orbicular and reniform with brown outline, the former round with dark point at centre, the 44 NOCTUID®. latter with the centre greyish and a brown patch above it on costa ; an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, with whitish points at extremities of teeth, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, and with a red-brown band on its outer edge defining the subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, dentate inwards to the post- medial line above vein 5 and incurved below vein 3: a terminal series of black points and more prominent spot above tornus. Hind wing white ; the veins brown ; the terminal area brown, with diffused inner edge and pale subterminal patch at middle; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside white; fore wing with the reni- form black ; both wings with brownish band beyond the postmedial line. Hab. Spatn ; Canartes; Axerers (Vrs. Nicholl), 1 9; C. Russta, Krasnow (Christoph), 1 9; Armenta; Asta Mrnor, Lydia; Syria, Beyrout (Lederer), 1 $, 19; Somaninanp (Yerbury), 1 o; N.W. Himatayas, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 9; Kuren, 2 ¢, type peri- geoides. Hep. 80-40 millim, Larva. Mill. Amn. Soe. Linn, Lyons, xviii. p. 35, pl. 104. ff. 9, LO. Reddish brown, with slight dark dorsal line; subdorsal band alternately black and white except on Ist somite; a diffused brown sublateral band. 55. Chloridea scutuligera. (Plate LY. fig. 20.) Heliothis scutuligera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 180 (1852). Heliothis errans, Wk. xxxiii. 769 (1865). Head and thorax ochreous, more or less strongly tinged with olive-brown; pectus and legs paler; abdomen ochreous, tinged with orange towards extremity, the ventral surface pale with dark irroration. Fore wing pale ochreous, suffused with olive-brown except in and beyond end of cell; the costa brown; a brown streak below base of cell; the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete; the orbicular represented by a dark point ; the reniform a black lunule with greyish centre, its lower angle produced, its upper edge usually connected with the costa by dark suffusion ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, excurved to vein 3, then ‘incurved, and usually with a series of prominent white points on its outer edge, and with the area beyond it brown to the pale subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous yellow, more or less tinged with rufous; a dark discoidal lunule usually present; a broad black terminal band with dentate ochreous patch at middle. Underside of fore wing with prominent black reniform ; both wings with dark postmedial band, on hind wing angled outwards to termen above und below middle. Hab. Namaavatand, O’oklep (Lightfoot), 1 ¢ ; Narat, Durban (Leigh), 1 9; Basvtotanp, Motsekua, 3 ¢, 1 2, Maseru, 3 ¢ (Crawshay); C. Cotoxy, Knysna (Trimen), 2 6,1 2 type errans, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 9. Evp. 30 millim. CHLORIDEA. 45 56. Chloridea armigera. Noctua armigera, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 370 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 119, ff. 6,7; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 299; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 174; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 270. __ Heliothis pulverosa, Wik. xi. 688 (1857). Heliothis conferta, Wik. xi. 690 (1857). Thalpophila rubrescens, Wik. xv. 1681 (1858). Heliothis uniformis, WUgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). Heliothis punctigera, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). Heliothis umbrosus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. i. p. 219 (1863). Head and thorax olive-grey or pale reddish brown: abdomen white, dorsally tinged with fuscous or reddish brown. Fore wing olive-grey or pale reddish brown ; an indistinct double waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and outline, the former round, the latter with two strive above it on costa; an oblique slightly waved median line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a double dentate postmedial line, the teeth produced to slight white points on the veins, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, Fig. 18.—Chloridea armigera, . 4. (From Mothis Ind. vol. ii.) then oblique, the area between it and the subterminal line usually darker, at all events towards costa, this line slightly angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing white; the veins brown; the terminal area broadly fuscous, with somewhat diffused inner edge and pale subterminal patch at middle often obsolescent or absent ; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform black; both wings with blackish band beyond the postmedial line except on costal area of hind wing. Ab. 1. Fore wing with prominent angled dark brown medial band diffused on outer side.—Hawaii. Ab. 2. rubescens. Hind wing with the ground-colour orange- yellow.—Australia. (a) Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with rufous, (>) Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with dark pink. Hab, Canava; U.S.A. throughout, Texas, 5 ¢,4 9, California, 19; Mexico (Hoege), 2 3, Morelas (H. H. Smith), 1 9, Milpas (Forrer), 1 3, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 6, 2 2, Durango (Becker), 46 NOCTUIDAE. 3.6, 8" Maria (Richardson), 1 ¢; Guaremata (Lodriguez, Cham- pion), 3 3,3 93; Costa Rica (Underwood), 2 3; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 g,1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamartca, 1 2; Bar- BADos (Frampton), 2 $ ; Sr. Vincent (H. H. Smith), 1 9; VeEne- ZzUELA, 1 9 ; Braziz, Rio, 1 9 ; Pxrv, Callao (J. J. Walker), 1 9; Cutt, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 3, 1 2: C. Verpas, St. Vincent (J. J. Walker), 1 9 ; .Kurorz, Central and Southern, Britain, France, Nice (Leach), 1 ¢, Germany, Zeller Coll., Spain, 1 g,1 9, Frey Coll. Sicily, 1 ¢, 8S. Russia, Sarepta, 1 9 ; Maperra (Meel:), 1 go; Canartes (Leech), 2 ¢; W. Arrica, Congo (Curror), 1 3.19; Soupan, Gebt el Meghahid (Dunn), 1 9 ; Apyssrnta, 1 ¢; Br. E. Arrica, Machakos (Crawshay), 2 5, 1 2, Tana R. (Crawshay), 192; N’Gamitanp (Lugard), 1 6,1 2; Transvaat (Ross), 1 3; Nara, Malvern (Marshall), 1 9 , Durban (Leigh), 2 3; Basvrotann, Masite (Crawshay), 1 2 ; C. Conony (Dr. Sinith), 1 g, Knysna (Trimen), 1 5, Grahamstown, 1 ¢, C. Town, 2 6, 1 9, type pulverosa; ADEN (Yerbury), 1 $; Syria, Lebanon, 1 ¢; Javan, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 2 3, Fushiki (Leech), 1 9; E. Canna, Shanghai (Prycr, J. J. Walker), 1 3,1 9, Chusan (J. J. Walker), 1 2; Formosa (Hobson), 2 9; W. Cura, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 2, Washan (Pratt), 1 ¢: Kasuuir, Gourais Valley (Leech), 1 ¢, Kuijar (McArthur), 1 9; N.W. Himatayas, Simla (Swinhoe), 1 3, 2 9, Dalhousie, 1 9, Akhor (Yerbury), 1 ¢, Campbellpur, 4 9°, Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 3,3 9, Deyra Dun, 2 2, Allahabad,1 ¢, 19; Sram (Russell), 1 9; Areuanistan, Kandahar (Roberts), 1 6; Sip, Kurrachee (Swinhoe), 1 g, Kutch, 1 9: Bomsay (Swinhoe), 1 3, Mhow, 1 9; Mapras, 1 9; Nixerris (Hampson), 26,2 9; Ceyrton (Green), 1 5, 19; Perrax, Kinta Valley (Ridley), 1 9; Sineapore (Rrdley), 1 2; Java (Horsfield), 3 3, 39; N. Ausrraria, Pt. Darwin, 1 9, Condillac I. (J. J. Walker), 1 o; W. Avsrratia, Sherlock R. (Dr. Clements), 1 9, Freemantle (J. J. Walker), 2 3,123; Quzenstanp, Brisbane (Turner), 1 3, 2 9; N.S. Watzs, Moreton B., 2 5, 2 9, type rubrescens, Sydney (Raynor), 6 3,6 2; Vicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 g ; Tasmanta, Launceston, 1 ¢; N. Zeatanp, Dunedin (Purdie), 1 ¢, Auckland, 3.3, 49, type conferta; Gitserr Is. (Woodford), 23,39; Hawatt (Blackburn, Perkins), 1 3,4 2. Exp. 30-42 millim. Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 108; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 152, pl. 245. f. 1. (Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulations pale, the sides spotted with darker brown and also the vertex. Body dull green; dorsal line fine, white, broadly edged with black; pale mottlings in lateral space, scarcely forming lines ; an even dark shade above the broad whitish substigmatal line, broadly greenish-centred ; white specks in subventral space. Cervical shield black, with white sub- dorsal line and white speckles. On somites 4 to 11 a black shade from tubercle i-iii, fainter on somite 10. Tubercles i-iv large, black, conically elevated; spiracles black. Dorsum minutely pilose. Thoracic feet blackish. Food-plants: corn, cotton, tomatoes, Losa, Reseda, Calamintha, &e. 6-7.—H. G. D. CHLORIDEA. 47 57. Chloridea assulta. (Plate LV. fig. 22.) Heliothis assulta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 178 (1852). Heliothis temperata, W\k. xi. 689 (1857); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p- 591, Heliothis separata, Wik. xi. 691 (1857) ; Semp. Schmett, Phil. ii. pl. Ix. f. 1. Heliothis suceinea, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 362. Head and thorax orange tinged with red-brown ; fore tibize brown above; abdomen orange. Fore wing orange tinged with red- brown; the veins rufous; a double curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, strongly waved, the inner line indistinct ; orbicular and reniform with dark centres and brown outline, the former round ; the medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled, then incurved; the post- medial line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and with its inner line minutely waved and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, the area beyond it brownish to the subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, dentate inwards to the postmedial line at vein 5 and out- wards nearly to termen on veins 4, 3, 2; cilia rufous. Hind wing orange-yellow; the terminal area broadly black with somewhat sinuous inner edge, with postmedial line just before it between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform black; both wings with blackish band beyond the post- medial line, except on inner area of fore wing and costal area of hind wing. Hab. W. Arnica, Congo (Curror), 1 9 ; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 3 2; Corna, Gensan (Leech), 2 5; KE. Cura, Shanghai, 1 9, Ichang (Pratt), 1 6, 29; Formosa (Hobson), 2 ¢; N.W. Hnowarayas, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 9, Allahabad, 1 ¢, 1 9; Buvran (Dudgeon), 1 3; Bompay (Swinhoc), 1 3,1 2 type succinea ; Cryton (Pole), 3 2 ; Burma, Hsipaw (De Nicéville), 1 9; Java (Horsfield), 1 9; QueENstanp, Rockhampton; Samoa, 2 ¢ type seperata; Tanrtt (J.J. Walker), 1 8. Exp. 24-36 millim. Type fT in Mus. Paris. Larva. Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. ix. p. 92, pl. 176. f. 22. Pale greyish green, the dorsal area browner ; a broad yellowish lateral stripe from 8th to 12th somite; a minute prominent subdorsal black spot on each somite, two spots on the lateral stripe and one below it; head pale red. Food-plant, Physalis peruviana. 58. Chloridea xanthiata. (Plate LV. fig. 23.) Heliothis xanthiata, W\k, xxxiii. 770 (1865). Q@. Vertex of head and front of thorax olive-yellow ; palpi, frons, and hinder part of thorax rufous; pectus and legs yellowish, the tibiz and tarsi brown tinged with pink; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with fuscous and towards extremity with pink, Fore wing olive-yellow ; the inner margin fuscous suffused with rufous and with rufous above it; a waved rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line excurved below 48 NOCTUID®. costa and more strongly below cell and above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform represented by small brown spots with rufous points round them, the latter with rufous mark just before it on costa ; an oblique minutely-waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at vein 5 and incurved below vein 4, with rufous suffusion on its outer edge on costa extending to apex ; a curved subterminal series of points; cilia pinkish. Hind wing white; the veins brownish; a dark discoidal point; the inner margin fuscous; the terminal area broadly black with nearly straight inner edge ; the veins towards termen streaked with red; cilia pink. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, a streak below middle of cell, and a diffused postmedial band black ; hind wing with the terminal area purplish pink. Hab. Navat, Karkloof (Marshall), 1 9. wp. 34 millim. 59. Chloridea chilensis, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 24.) ¢. Head and thorax ochreous strongly tinged with crimson, and the hairs tipped with grey; tibie and tarsi tinged with pink; abdomen ochreous, the dorsal crest at base pink. Fore wing olive ochreous; the costal area pink, with some ochreous and brown points on costa; a dark subbasal point below the cell; antemedial points in submedian fold and on vein 1; the orbicular a small dark spot ; reniform somewhat quadrate; a curved postmedial series of dark points ; a more or less distinct subterminal punctiform line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia pink. Hind wing pale ochreous; the veins streaked with brown ; the terminal area broadly fuscous with diffused inner edge ; cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band fuscous. 2. Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous. Hab. Cuitt, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 2 3,1 2 type. Eup. 36 millim. 60. Chloridea virescens. Noctua virescens, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 216 (1781); Smith, Cat. Noct. U.S. p. 268. Phase rhexia, Smith & Abb. Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 199, pl. 100 (1792) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 298. Aspila subfleca, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 175 (1852). Xanthia viridescens, Wik. x. 465 (1856). Xanthia prasina, Wik. x. 465 (1856). Xanthia pyraloides, Wik. x. 466 (1856). Aspila tergemina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 108. f. 55 (1874). Heliothis spectanda, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1875). Chicridea molochitina, Berg, Ann, Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 282 (1882). Chloridea distincta, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 117 (1898). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with green; palpi and antenne whitish irrorated with red; frons ochreous; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tibia and tarsi tinged with red; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged CHLORIDEA.—OXYLOS. 49 with green ; the costal edge reddish ; an indistinct greenish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; oblique antemedial, medial, and postmedial reddish lines, the last two angled inwards to costa and the 1st and 3rd with pale bands on their inner edge; claviform, orbicular, and reniform indistinetly outlined with greenish, the two former round, the last large; a very indistinct pale waved sub- terminal line; cilia red at tips towards apex; a terminal series of black points, often obsolete. Hind wing semihyaline white; the veins towards termen and a diffused terminal band narrowing to apex and tornus red. Underside of fore wing with more or less prominent reddish discoidal spot and postmedial band. Ab. 1. subflewa. Hind wing without terminal band. Ab. 2. rhevia. The red tones replaced by fuscous, the lines of fore wing dark and more diffused, and the pale bands more distinct. Ab. 3. spectanda=molochitina. Fore wing with whitish band on inner edge of medial line also; the postmedial band arising almost from apex. Ab. 4. distincta. More uniform brownish ochreous. Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., Middle, Central, and Southern States, 1 ¢, 4 9, Alabama, 1 ¢, Kansas, Colorado, California; Mexico, Cordova (Aumeli, Trujillo), 2 2, Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 1 9°, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 3, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $,1 2; Guaremata (Champion, Rodriquez), 3 3, 19, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Harrr (Tweedie), 1 3,12, type viridescens; St. Croix; Sr. Lucis, 1 9; St. Vincent (H. H. Smith), 1 2; Grenava (H. H. Smith), 14,29; Grenavines, Union I. (#. H. Smith), 1 9: Vunezueta, 1 ¢ type pyvralidoides ; Brazin, Santarem (Bates), 25,3 2 type prasin«, Sao Paulo (Jones), 22, Castro Paratia, typet distincta in Coll. Schaus; AreEntina, Goya (Perrins), 1g ; Pzrv, Callao (J. J. Walker), 3 3. Exp. 28-36 millim. Larva. Riley, Am. Ent. iii. p. 7. (Redeseribed.) Head green, tubercle ii black. Body green, a dorsal and lateral blackish shade. Substigmatal band broad, white, reddish filled; subventral area pale. Tubercles large, conical, black ; cervical shield black, cut by pale dorsal line. Feet blackish. Food- plants: Rhevia, Solanum sieglinge, and Tobacco.—H. G. D. Genus OXYLOS. rte Oxylos, Grote, Check List Noct. p. 19 (1875) ......cccsecseeeeseaeees citrinellus. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique to beyond frons, the 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair below ; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair ; fore tibiz short and broad, with two long curved claws and three spines on inner side and four claws on outer ; mid and hind tibiz strongly spinea. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. VOL. LV. EB 50 NOCTUID. 61. Oxylos citrinellus. Heliothis citrinellus, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iii. p- 180, pl. ii. f. 79 (1870); Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 272. ¢@. Head and thorax very pale yellow ; abdomen white, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing uniform very pale yellow. Hind wing white, with black discoidal lunule and terminal band leaving some Fig. 19.— Oxylos citrinellus, 8. 3 1: white on termen towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the costal area tinged with fuscous, the orbicular and reniform stigmata and subterminal and terminal bands fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 3, Grote Coll., Colorado. wp. 30 millim. Genus CHLOROCLEPTRIA, nov. Type, C. simplex. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending well beyond frons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair below, the 3rd moderate; frons with rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair ; fore tibiz with a long curved claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 62. Chlorocleptria simplex. Schinia simplex, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 129 891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. ¢. Head and thorax yellowish white, tinged with pale green; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing pale yellow-green, the costal area whitish green. Hind wing ochreous Fig. 20.—Chlorocleptria simplex, G. }. yellow, with some fuscous scales just below and in end of cell and on terminal area especially towards apex. Underside yellow, the cilia of fore wing pale green. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Colorado Springs, 1 3. Exp. 32 millim. DASYPOUDMDA. Hil Genus DASYPOUDAA. Type Dasypoudea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 213 (1883)............ lucens, Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, and fringed with hair below; ftons with rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with thick hair, the latter rather quadrately scaled and with slight metathoracic crests ; legs with long hair, the tibize spined; the fore tibiz rather short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; abdomen in the type species with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded; yeins 3 and 5 from near augle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour crimson ..................400008 lucens. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour green ...........s.eeceeeeeeee ees mead. 63. Dasypoudza lucens. Fieliothis luwcens, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 69; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 286. Tamila luzuriosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882). Q. Head and thorax clothed with deep crimson and bluish-white hair; pectus with white and brownish hair; legs with white and pinkish hair; abdomen brown irrorated with yellowish-white, the dorsal crest deep crimson and bluish white, the ventral surface i) Fig. 21.—Dasypoudea lucens, 3. white mixed with pink. Fore wing deep crimson suffused with bluish white, the veins streaked with white; a dentate subbasal white line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line dentate; an ill-defined crimson discoidal lunule; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; an irregularly dentate subterminal whitish line angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and inwards in discal and submedian folds; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing yellowish, with some black-brown suffusion at base conjoined to the large dis- coidal lunule; the terminal area black-brown, with irregular inner edge and waved yellowish subterminal line towards tornus; cilia white at tips. Underside yellowish white, with patch below the cell, orbicular, reniform, and curved postmedial band blackish, some crimson on termen towards apex; hind wing with crimson spot on middle of costal area and postmedial and subterminal lines, becoming a blackish band towards tornus, the large discoidal lunule black. Hab. U.S.A., Racine (Dr. Hoy), 1 2, Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Exp. 32 millim. E2 52) NOCTUID®. 64. Dasypoudza meadi. (Plate LV. fig. 25.) Heliothis meadi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. 121, pl. f. 5 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 286. Head and thorax clothed with pale greenish-yellow and white hair; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. .Fore wing pale yellow- green, tinged with black in places; a silvery-white mark at base conjoined at median nervure to the curved subbasal white line defined on outer side by some black scales; the antemedial line curved and defined by some black scales, expanding into a triangular white mark on costal area; the medial area with whitish patches on costal area and in and below cell, defining the green orbicular and reniform stigmata; the postmedial line silvery white, defined by black scales on outer side, acutely angled outwards beyond lower angle of cell and incurved above and below that point; the terminal area with white patches at apex and from vein 4 to tornus, defining a dentate subterminal line ; cilia chequered white and green. Hind wing white; the basal and costal areas suffused with black confluent with the large black discoidal lunule; the terminal area black, its inner edge rather irregular and indented towards tornus and with white subterminal patch between veins 2and4. Underside white; fore wing with patch below the cell, orbicular, reniform, and postmedial band black; hind wing with discoidal lunule and postmedial band towards tornus black. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, 1 ¢, Montana, Colorado, 19. EHuap. 28 millim. Genus CHARICLEA. Type. Chamelea; Curt Brit. Ents plai6 (1825) nesassscceeeeceeeetenseaeneet delphini. IRA RY OC eh, Va killa, WENA, 105 AH (UUSY7/)) conoapagacersnooscnodenaobanancer delphini. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons and fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large. rounded; antennzx of male minutely ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the latter rather quadrately, and with crests on pro- and metathorax; tibia thickly fringed with hair, the fore tibis short and broad, with long curved claw cn inner side and short claw on outer, the mid and hind tibiz very slightly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base and with crest on Ist segment. Fore wing with the apex moderately produced ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 65, Chariclea delphini. Noctua delphinii, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 518 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 175. ff. 1-4; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pl. 42. f. 204 & pl. 137. f. 622; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. vii. pl. 110. f. 1; Steph. Ill. Brit. eee iii. p. 92; Curt. Brit. Ent. pl. 76; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 220. Head and thorax ochreous white, the palpi, frons, and metathorax tinged with rufous, the tegule and patagia with olive ; legs tinged CHARICLEA. 53 with purplish pink; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with olive, the sides purplish pink. Fore wing whitish, strongly suffused with magenta, most deeply on basal area and beyond the postmedial line; a double highly-curved dentate antemedial line; orbicnlar small, eliptical, and defined by pink, connected with the reniform by a streak on subcostal nervure, the latter purple defined by pink and by black on upper part of outer side, where it is produced to a Fig. 22.—Chariclea delphini G 1 lobe, the lower part slightly produced on inner side, and with sinuous line from it to inver margin; the postmedial line donble, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, the area between it and subtermina] line deep magenta, brownish towards costa; the subterminal line excurved between veins 7 and 4, then incurved; a fine terminal line; cilia tinged with ochreous. Hind wing white, the veins and inner margin brown; the terminal area fuscous brown, the termen itself magenta; cilia white. Under- side of both wings with the ground-coleur white. Hab. Brirarn, South; France; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Swirzertanp, Zeller Coll.; Iraty; Swepen; Russza, Livonia; Greece (Merlin); Armpnta; Asis Minor, Pontus. Hap. 34-38 millim. Subsp. 1. darollesi, Oberth, Et. Ent. i. p. 49, pl. 4. f. 5 (1876). Very much paler. Hab. Aterers; Armenta; W. Turkestan, Ferghana. Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 144. Slender; violet-grey, with an interrupted black dorsal line edged with yellow; each somite with four large black dots; sides paler, with broad yellow sublateral band with five large black dots above it on each somite; head yellow, with three large black dots and border on each hemisphere behind, frontal plate black ; dorsal plate black, bisected by a yellow line ; anal plate yellow, dotted with black. Food-plant, flowers and seed of Delphiniwin consolida, 54 NOCTUIDZ. Genus HDOPHRON. Type ZEdophron, Led. Noct. Bur. p. 180 (1857) ...---seeeeeeeseeteee eens rhodites. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, fringed with long hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it produced at sides into lateral walls; eyes large, rounded ; antennx of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair ; fore tibizx with long curved claw on outer side and another at end of Ist joint of tarsus; mid and hind tibix slightly spined ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with the apex moderately produced ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 from well above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11-from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing prominently streaked with pink...............++ rhodites. B. Fore wing with slight dusky streaks. a. Fore wing with dark discoidal bar ..........2:++sseeeeeee VeENOSA. b. Fore wing without dark discoidal bar .....-...++.:see+++- phlebophora. 66. Aidophron rhodites. Heliothis rhodites, Ey. Bull. Soc. Mose. 1851, p. 685; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. Simyra aurorina, Hery.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. Suppl. f. 579 (1851). 3. Head and thorax dull pink; pectus and legs whitish ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish pink the medial part of costal area greyish; the cell, a streak below basal half of vein 1, another below vein 2, and others above Fig. 23.—A%dophron rhodites, 3. nie and below vein 5 pale yellow; some yellowish spots on termen ; cell yellow intersected with pink. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous except in cell and on costa; cilia white intersected with brown. Underside white, the veins brownish, the terminal area tinged with pink. Hab, Russta, Central and Eastern, Astrabad, 1 ¢; ARMENIA; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus; Pursta. vp. 32 millim. 67. Aidophron venosa. Adophron venosa, Christ, Stett, ent. Zeit, 1887, p. 165; id. Rom. Mém. v. p. 88, pl. 2. f. 9; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow, the veins finely streaked DOPHRON.—RHODOPHORA. (979) with brown; an oblique dark discoidal bar. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins streaked with brown. Underside white, the veins slightly streaked with brown. Hab. Anmenta; W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, 1 ¢. xp. 30 millim. 68. Addophron phlebophora. Adophron phiebophora, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. ii. p. 144, pl. 2. f. 9 (1858) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow; antenni ochreous ; abdomen whitish, the extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore wing sulphur-yellow, the veins more or less strongly tinged with brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown; the veins brown; the termen suffused with yellow. Hab. Armenta; Asta Minor, 3 6,6 9; Syrta, 2 ¢, Mardin; Persta. Hvp. 32-34 millim. Larva. Staud. Hor. Ent. Soe. Ross. xiv. p. 401 (1878). Head pale brown, the segments with darker margins; body greenish, with red-brown markings, paler towards extremity, forming bands on each somite, sharply defined below, toothed and with a pale point at the stigmata; a prominent dorsal line; sublateral area tinged with brown; the warts each with a short hair. Food-plant, Phlomis. Genus RHODOPHORA. Type. Alaria, Westw. Jardine’s Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200 (1841), non descremec Schrank VeErMmes sLSOscets ees: c niealen!hweinsiap felicitata. 69. Rhodophora gaure. Phalena gaure, Smith & Abb. Insects Georgia, ii. p. 197, pl. 99 (1797) ; Westw. Jardine’s Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 200, pl. 24. f.4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 272. Porphyrinia maiutina, Hiibn. Ziitr. p. 35, ff. 557, 558 (1827). Head and thorax very pale yellow; patagia and metathorax orange posteriorly ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the tibizw and 56 NOCTUID®. tarsi tinged with pink. Fore wing very pale yellow; the basal area deep rose-pink down to submedian fold, emitting streaks on subcostal and median nervures, and with some pink below its extremity ; an oblique very deep pink postmedial band arising from Fie. 24.-—Rhodophora Gaure, Gr t costa near apex, angled inwards in discal fold, almost obsolete below submedian fold, and bent outwards to inner margin; the terminal area suffused with pink; cilia pink. Hind wing white; the terminal area more or less suffused with pink down to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas pink. Hab. US.A., 8. States, Georgia, 38 g,3 9 (Doubleday), Colorado. Eep. 34 millim. Larva (redescribed).—Head 3:5 millim., brown, with irregular darker blotches over the lobes. Body pale orange, a sharp transverse black stripe in the centre of each segment to the subventral fold, and more obscure bands in the incisures. . Fore wing with the medial area suffused with purplish [UAE caodoue spdacansocncsdosadapoousbaqnooou. Mesceand, b*. Fore wing with the medial area not. suffused with purplish pink. a*, Fore tibiz with five claws on outer side ...... bicuspida. }°, Fore tibiz with three claws on outer side. a4, Fore wing with the basal and subterminal areas not strongly irrorated with black, (WO) WEES AREY? ccboe coccesogeennneesoceoaaadodas tuberculum. . Fore wing with the basal and subterminal areas strongly irrorated with black, the imeSnwitishieetanetasseane acasceneece vee Orevis. 6, Hind wing wholly black. a', Fore wing with the ground-colour black-brown... septentrionalis. b', Fore wing with the ground-colour pale yellowish. a’. Fore wing with the basal area, medial shade, and postmedial band prominently rufous...... siren. }?, Fore wing with the rufous shades almost obsolete. znelara. e. Hind wing whitish with dark terminal band. w, Hind wing with the whitish area irrorated with fuscous, ?, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete at middle and conjoined so as to enclose triangular patches on costa and inner TANI gstalsieaies Ahicobaciac ore ndenacopopenodo jbo ncaasasee constricla, 62 NOCTUID®. v?, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines entire and separate. a>. Fore wing with the postmedial line crenulate. a*, Hind wing with black discoidal spot ...... approximata, 6+. Hind wing without black discoidal spot. a. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled: below, theicell geeesaceeeetese rere thoreaui. }. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly Curved | a avseaarte tek nere eee ee eeeeereee hanga. °, Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly LosteyheN PEL Mie eae cea saooGaedocanactcct bonanpasadaas marginata, 1. Hind wing with the whitish area not irrorated with fuscous. a, Hind wing with large black discoidal spot. a’, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines prominently white, the former retracted to baserat medianinieryuneeeest acorn sence intrabilis. 6°. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines Very nGistinets.sschs.gsscason cet escent course nubila. 6°. Hind wing without discoidal spot. a. Thorax and medial and terminal areas of fore wing irrorated with white ............... imperspicud. b°, Thorax and fore wing not irrorated with white. a‘. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas blackish ),..;..acessesmscessanensscae stones lora. 6*, Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas pale DROW nats seceetee seer eas ere .. bifascia. 79. Lygranthecia bimatris. (Plate LV. fig. 31.) Pippona bimatris, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 10 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 266. $. Head yellowish white; palpi fuscous at tips; antenne fulvous; thorax pure white ; legs yellowish white, the tibie and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing silvery white. Hind wing white, with slight fuscous suffusion from base through the cell to apex. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the margins. Fore tibize with two claws and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab: U.S.A., Texas, 1 3 type. Hep. 34 millim. 80. Lygranthecia ultima. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) Heliothis ultima, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. ¢. Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; pectus and legs ochreous irrorated with red-brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with grey, the medial area ochreous irrorated with red-brown ; the lines white ; the ante- medial line waved, excurved at median nervure, then oblique; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; traces of a sinuous subterminal line, with the area beyond it rather paler. Hind wing ochreous slightly tinged with brown and with a brown discoidal spot; the terminal area broadly brown. Underside pale; LYGRANTH@CIA. 63 fore wing with brown discoidal spot and postmedial line with patch beyond it below middle; hind wing with slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, with diffused patch towards tornus. Fore tibia with two claws and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢, Grote Coll. Hep. 34 millim. *81. Lygranthecia concinna. (Plate LXIX. fig. 1.) Schinia concinna, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 128 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. Head and thorax dark ochreous with an olive tinge ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with olive, the markings chocolate-brown; basal area brown, deepest towards the antemedial line, which is white, prominent, excurved and sinuous to median nervure, then incurved and sinuous; reniform large, dark, some- what ill-defined, obscured by the dusky medial shade; postmedial line white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, obso- lescent and reduced to points beyond the cell; postmedial area dark, paler towards the subterminal line, which is only defined by the area beyond it being ochreous; cilia ochreous, with a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing obscure fulvous towards the base, becoming blackish towards termen ; cilia dirty ochreous white. Underside ochreous; fore wing with the disk black, con- joined to a subapical spot; a black discoidal spot ; hind wing with large discoidal black spot and a terminal band. Fore tibize with two claws on inner side and three on outer. Hab. U.S.A.,8.Texas. Hep.24millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. *82. Lygranthecia? tanena. Schinia tanena, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). Head and thorax olive-yellow; abdomen clear yellow. Fore wing with the basal area yellow-brown ; antemedial line whitish, produced outwards to a point on median nervure; medial area ochreous shaded with brown; a dark quadrate reniform stigma extending to costa; postmedial line whitish, the area beyond it yellow-brown; the terminal area ochreous. Hind wing black, with the basal area yellow. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Bastrop (Heiligbrodt), Exp. 16 millim. This species is unknown to me. 83. Lygranthecia mortua. (Plate LV. fig. 32.) Anthecia mortua, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 528, pl. vi. f. 1 (1864); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. Anthecia packardii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii, p. 528, pl. vi. 7. 2 (1864). Anthecia nobilis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iii. p. 529, pl. vi. f. 8. Anthecia labe, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). 4. Head and thorax yellow-brown tinged with red-brown ; 64 NOCTUID 2. pectus and legs orange-yellow, the tibise tinged with pink ; abdomen orange-yellow, dorsally tinged with rufous, ventrally with pink. Fore wing pale greyish brown suffused with rufous ; the basal area rather darker rufous, bounded by the sinuous whitish antemedial line, which is strongly excurved at median nervure; reniform indistinct, dusky ; the pale postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 5, then strongly incurved, and with a rufous band between it and the subterminal line represented by a series of dark points slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points usually present. Hind wing orange, with a blackish discoidal spot and broad terminal band with more or less developed orange spot on it at middle. Underside of both Wings with some red irroration on costal area. © much darker; abdomen suffused with fuscous: above; fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas dark rufous; hind wing with the basal area to end of cell black with irregular outer edge. Ab. 1. labe. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. Fore tibix with two claws and two to four spines on inner side and five claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 6,1 9, Colorado, Larima Co. (Smith), 2 3, Arizona. HEwvp, 28-32 millim. *84, Lygranthecia errans. (Plate LIX. fig. 7.) Schinia evrans, Smith, Trars. Am, Ent. Soc. x. p. 235 (1883); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous with olive-brown markings ; the basal area brown, its outer edge excurved below cell: a medial brown shade expanding towards costa, nar- rowing to a line at inner margin; reniform defined by brown; the postmedial line pale, excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; the terminal area brown, with the subterminal line pale, sinuous, the area beyond it rather paler. Hind wing yellow, with dark discoidal spot and broad terminal band. Fore tibie with two claws and three spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. US.A., Arizona, Eap.24millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof. Smith’s figure. *85. Lygranthecia ? ar. Schinia ar, Streck, Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. 1. p. 10 (1898). Head, thorax, and abdomen dull ochreous. Fore wing dull ochreous; the basal area brown except towards costa; subterminal and terminal areas brown; the antemedial line indistinct, white, excurved and somewhat trisinuate: reniform indistinct, brown ; postmedial line indistinct, white, slightly crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line white, dentate, angled inwards at vein 5; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing fuscous, the base and basal half of costal area ochreous, ed LYGRANTH@CIA. 65 a small ochreous spot beyond discoidal spot; cilia fuscous, white at tips. Hab, U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll). Ewp, 20 millim. This species is unknown to me. *86. Lygranthecia? obscurata. Schinia obscurata, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). Head and thorax olive-brown ; abdomen dorsally blackish. Fore wing with the basal area olive-brown, produced outwards to a point on median nervure; medial area clear pale ochreous; reni- form olive-brown, large, quadrate, extending to costa, on which is a fascia connecting it with basal area; postmelial area olive-brown ; terminal area pale clear ochreous; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing black, with the base yellow; cilia black, white at tips. Hab, U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Latrobe (Schmidt). Hap, 22 millim. This species is unknown to me. 87. Lygranthecia mesceana. (Plate LVI. fig. 9.) Lygranthecia meskeana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 224 (1875) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 300; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. Heliothis fastidiosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 121 (1876). Lygranthecia rufimedia, Grote, Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 31 (1883). g. Head and thorax pale olive-yellow ; palpi, pectus, and legs yellow, the extremity of palpi and tibie tinged with pink; tarsi banded with brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing with the basal area olive-brown tinged with pink to the antemedial line, which is white and bent outwards at median nervure, then oblique; the medial area ochreous suffused with pink and with an indistinct dark discoidal patch ; the postmedial line with white points on it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and with an olive-brown band beyond it with sinuous outer edge; the terminal area and cilia pale olive. Hind wing black; the costal area pale ochreous to beyond middle, a spot beyond discocellulars and another below end of cell and some diffused ochreous before medial part of termen ; cilia ochreous and brown at base, white at tips. Underside with the costal area of both wings tinged with pink ; some black in and below cell near base; a discoidal spot on fore wing conjoined to the postmedial band, which on hind wing extends to termen at tornus and on inner area to the subbasal patch. Fore tibise with two claws and one spine on inner side and four claws on outer. Ab. 1. rufimedia. Abdomen dorsally banded with fuscous ; fore wing with the postmedial band darker and diffused to middle of termen; hind wing with the ochreous spots reduced and with hardly a trace of ochreous before termen. Fore tibize with two claws and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Bastrop Co., 1 d type, Florida, 1 ¢ type VOL, IY. ws 66 NOCTUID. rufimedia, New Mexico, Roswell ( Cockerell), 1 3 ; Muxico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 ¢, Godman-Salvin Coll, wp. 24-26 millim. *88. Lygranthecia bicuspida. (Plate LXIX. fig. 2.) Schinia bicuspida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 127 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. Head and thorax ochreous; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing ochreous ; the basal area dark ; the subbasal line pale, angled out- wards below costa; vein 1 pale; the inner area irrorated with black ; antemedial line pale, sharply angled outwards on median nervure, incurved below vein | ; reniform indistinct, dark ; a dusky medial shade expanding towards inner margin; postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal area strongly irrorated with black, especially towards termen, defining the pale subterminal line, which is strongly incurved at discal and submedian folds, angled outwards at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia intersected with black. Hind wing black, with a broad yellow medial band bisected by the large black discoidal spot; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing pale yellow with a basal dark shade, a large discoidal spot and broad subterminal band ; hind wing white, with black discoidal lunule and incomplete terminal band. Fore tibize with two claws on inner side and five on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas. Hvp. 24 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sei. 89. Lygranthecia tuberculum. (Plate LVI. fig. 5.) Melicleptria tuberculum, Hiibn, Zuty. iti. p. 29, ff. 517, 518 (1827) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 283. Anthecia dorsilutea, Wik. xi. 695 (1857). ¢. Head and thorax orange-fulvous, the latter with fuscous scales mixed; abdomen orange-fulvous, dorsally banded with black-brown. Fore wing pale rufous; pale subbasal and antemedial lines with dentitions in the cell meeting each other, the subbasal line not reaching inner margin, the antemedial oblique and sinuous below the cell and with some black scales on its inner edge; the pale postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and with some black irroration beyond it; the pale sub- terminal line excurved at middle. Hind wing with the basal half orange, with some black suffusion below base of cell and a black discoidal spot conjoined at extremities to the black-brown terminal halt of wing; cilia yellowish, white at tips. Underside of fore wing orange-yellow, with some black in and below cell before middle and a discoidal spot conjoined to the postmedial band, which is very wide except towards costa; hind wing with black discoidal spot conjoined to the large patch on tornal area. Fore tibize with two claws and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A.,3 3 type dorsilutea, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida. Exp. 26 millim. LYGRANTHCCIA. 67 90. Lygranthecia brevis. (Plate LVI. fig. 6.) Anthecia brevis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 530, pl. vi. f. 4 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. Anthecia brevis, var. atrites, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iii. p. 530, pl. vi. f. 5 (1864); id. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. 119 (1873). 3. Head and thorax orange-fulvous mixed with whitish; abdomen pale orange, the dorsum black except the 1st and last three segments. Fore wing ochreous whitish, largely suffused with red- brown and black; the basal area rufous, bounded by the pale ante- medial line, which is angled inwards in cell and on vein 1; a diffused brown discoidal spot; the pale postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and with a rufous band beyond it with its outer edge angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved below middle; some blackish points on termen; cilia chequered with brown. Hind wing black-brown, with yellowish spots beyond the discocellulars and below end of cell; cilia yellowish white. Underside of fore wing yellowish, with black streaks in and below cell and discoidal spot conjoined to the postmedial band ; hind wing with some black below base of cell conjoined to the discoidal spot aud the postmedial band. Q. Hind wing without the yellow spots. Fore tibize with two claws and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, 1 3g, (Cockerell) 1 9, New Mexico. Hp. 26 millim. 91. Lygranthecia septentrionalis. (Plate LVI. fig. 7.) Omia septentrionalis, Wik. xv. 1744 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. Q. Head and thorax yellowish mixed with brown; abdomen black-brown, the extremity tinged with yellowish. Fore wing black-brown, suffused in part with ochreous and rufous; the ante- medial line pale, excurved at median nervure and angled inwards at vein 1; an ochreous spot in middle of cell sometimes conjoined to one below the cell; an obscure dark discoidal spot; the post- medial line pale, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved ; an obscure ochreous apical spot and indistinct subterminal line angled inwards in discal fold, then excurved. Hind wing black-brown. Underside of fore wing with whitish spot in end of cell conjoined to a spot below it and a spot beyond end of cell. Fore tibize with two claws and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Ilinois (Doubleday), 2 9 type. vp. 28 millim. *92. Lygranthecia siren. Heliothis siren, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p, 122 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. Head and thorax reddish yellow ; abdomen black above, yellowish below. Fore wing greyish yellow ; the basal area rufous, with the F2 68 NOCTUIDAE, diffused black antemedial line on its outer edge: a slight medial rufous shade: the black discoidal spot rather small ; a postmedial rufous band defined by the blackish postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter angled inwards to near former at discal fold. Hind wing black, with the cilia white. Underside of fore wing black, the costal edge yellowish white, the termen white ; hind wing black, with apical white patch extending on costa to before middle. Hab. U.S.A., Texas (Boll). Exp. 24 millim. This species is unknown to me. 93. Lygranthecia inclara. (Plate LVI. fig. 8.) Heliothis inclara, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. 2. Head and thorax olive-yellow mixed with whitish; abdomen pale fulvous-yellow, the dorsum black except the Ist and terminal segments. Fore wing pale olive-yellow ; the lines pale and very indistinct ; the antemedial line excurved at median nervure, then oblique; a blackish discoidal point; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and with some dark scales on its outer edge; the obscure subterminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle. Hind wing black-brown. Under- side black; fore wing with the margins whitish, expanding into a patch on inner margin beyond middle ; hind wing with the costal and a large apical area narrowing to a point at vein 2 whitish. Fore tibie with two claws and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 9, Grote Coll., Arizona, Phoenix, 1 9. Exp. 28 miilim. *94. Lygranthecia constricta. (Plate LIX. fig. 6.) Lygranthecia constricta, H. Edw. Papilio. ii. p. 128 (1882) ; Sinith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. x. pl. viii. f. 42; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 283. Fore wing dark brown; the medial area slightly paler, defined by pale ante- and postmedial lines, which are interrupted at middle and confluent with each other so that the medial area is divided into two triangular patches ; terminal area broadly brownish grey ; a pale subterminal line. Hind wing dusky, with ill-defined paler medial band and dark discoidal spot. Underside dusky, with slightly paler areas and dark discoidal spot. : Fore tibice with two claws and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., N. Carolina. Ewvp. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof. Smith’s figure. *95. Lygranthecia? approximata. Schinia upproximata, Streck. Lep. Riop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). Dull ochreous. Fore wing with the basal area fuscous, darkest towards margins and antemedial line, which is prominent, white, LYGRANTHCCIA. 69 crenulate ; medial area ochreous with a dark brown medial shade ; reniform dark, quadrate ; postmedial line prominent, white, crenu- late ; postmedial area dark fuscous; an irregularly dentate sub- terminal line ; terminal area pale ochreous, in one specimen suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points, rarely absent ; cilia yellowish white intersected with fuscous. Hind wing dull ochreous white tinged with black: the basal area black; a large black discoidal spot conjoined to the broad terminal black band; cilia fuscous, white at tips. ; Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll). Hvp.18 millim. This species is unknown to me. 96 Lygranthecia thoreaui. (Plate LVI. fig. 1.) Anthecia thoreaui, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 181, pl. ii. f. 80 (1870) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. Head and thorax dull brown, the scales tipped with grey ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing dull brown irrorated with grey ; the antemedial line whitish, somewhat oblique from costa to submedian fold, then very oblique inwardly to inner margin; the medial area greyer, with diffused brown discoidal patch; the post- medial line white, crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved ; a terminal grey band, Hind wing grey-brown with the terminal area darker. Fore tibie with two claws and one spine on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., New York, 135,19, Grote Coll., Texas, Alabama, Kansas, Indiana. vp. 34 millim. *97. Lygranthecia? hanga. Schinia hanga, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. 1. p. 9 (1898). Head, thorax, and abdomen dull greyish brown. Fore wing dull greyish brown, the medial area more ochreous ; terminal area rather paler ; antemedial line white, slightly crenulate, evenly curved ; reniform represented by an obscure shade; postmedial line white, slightly crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then moderately incurved ; cilia chequered yellowish white and brown. Hind wing dirty white, with a broad fuscous terminal band with pale sub- terminal line on it from vein 5 to tornus; cilia fuscous, white at tips. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), Hvp.28millim, This species is unknown to me. 98. Lygranthecia marginata. (Plate LVI. fig. 2. Cambrus imarginata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 874 (1810); Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 54. f. 68; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 282. Anthecia rivulosa, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 184, pl. ix. f. 12 (1852). Microphysa contracta, W1k. xii. 836 (1857). Euclidia designata, Wik. xxxiii. 985 (1865). Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 70 i NOCTUID HE, abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey ; the antemedial line white, strongly excurved at middle and very oblique towards inner margin; the medial area much greyer, with a diffused dark discoidal spot ; the postmedial line white, slightly bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 5, then strongly incurved ; a very slightly curved whitish subterminal line, Fig. 27.—Lygranthecia marginata, S. }. with the area beyond it rather greyer. Hind wing grey-brown, with an obscure discoidal spot; a pale ochreous postmedial line, the area beyond it rather darker ; cilia white at tips. Fore tibize with two claws and one spine on inner side and three or four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Middle, Southern, and Central States, New York, 8 ¢ type contracta, 2 2 type designata, Massachusetts, Nantucket, 1d, Alabama,1 9. wp. 30-34 millim. *99. Lygranthecia intrabilis. (Plate LVIII. fig. 32.) Schinia intrabilis, Smith, Insect Life, v. p. 331, f. 3 (1893). @. Head and thorax white tinged with pale olive; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing grey-white; a white streak on median nervure to origin of vein 2, then curved to submedian fold, then oblique to inner margin, the included space being tinged with olive; medial area suffused with ochreous, with the black discoidal spot of underside showing through; the postmedial line white, slightly defined by brown on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 2, then bent outwards to tornus, the area beyond it tinged with olive ; a slight whitish subterminal line. Hind wing white, with large black discoidal lunule and some suffusion between it and inner margin ; terminal area suffused with black and with whitish patch on termen. Underside white; fore wing with fuscous streak below cell before middle, a large black discoidal spot, and postmedial band not reaching costa or inner margin ; hind wing with discoidal lunule and subterminal band towards tornus. Fore tibize with two claws on inner side and four on outer. Hab, U.S.A., California, Argus Mts., San Diego, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 28 millim. - LYGRANTH@CIA. il *100. Lygranthecia? nubila. Heliothis nubila, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with olive-green, whitish below. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-green ; the antemedial and postmedial lines very indistinct, especially the former; the submarginal area rather darker than the rest of wing. Hind wing yellowish white ; some black scales at base; a large black discoidal spot; a broad terminal black band with its inner edge straight ; cilia white. Underside yellowish white; fore wing with elongate black basal patch not extending to costa or inner margin, a round black discoidal spot, a subterminal black band not extending to costa or inner margin, with some rufous between it and costa; hind wing with indistinct discoidal spot and a subterminal band, rufous towards costa, black towards inner margin. Hab. U.S.A., Texas (Boll). Hap. 24 millim. This species is unknown to me, 101. Lygranthecia imperspicua. (Plate LVI. fig. 4.) Heliothis imperspicua, Streck, Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876). Schinia digitalis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 128 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 288. ¢. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with brown, the scales of thorax tipped with grey; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, tinged with brown and irrorated with grey ; the basal area suffused with dark brown to the obliquely curved antemedial line ; a diffused dark discoidal spot; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, defined by a dark band on its outer side, the outer edge of which represents the nearly straight subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated with dark brown. Fore tibiz with two claws and one spine on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Iowa city, 1 ¢, Texas, Dallas. Hap. 30 millim. *102. Lygranthecia ? lora. Schinia lora, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). Head yellowish white ; thorax dull ochreous with an olive tinge ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing with the basal area fuscous ; the medial area pale ochreous, the ante- and postmedial lines in- distinct, the orbicular and reniform quite obsolete; postmedial area fuscous to nearly black; terminal area pale ochreous ; cilia fuscous mixed with pale ochreous. Hind wing yellowish white, with a black terminal band; cilia white. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), Bastrop. wp, 22 millim. This species is unknown to me. ~I bo NOCTUID®. 103. Lygranthecia bifascia. (Plate LVI. fig. 3.) Schinia bifascia, Hiibn. Zuty. i. p. 14, ff. 55, 56 (1827); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. Anthophila divergens, Wk. xii. 850 (1857). @. Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale olive-brown ; (abdomen wanting). Fore wing ochreous whitish, irrorated and suffused with pale olive-brown ; an antemedial whitish line obtusely angled outwards below costa, then very oblique; a postmedial slightly sinuous whitish line, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 2, then bent outwards to inner margin. Hind wing ochreous whitish, irrorated with olive-brown, especially on terminal area. Fore tibize with two claws and one spine on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Georgia, 1 9 type divergens, Colorado, Arizona. Exp. 30 millim. Genus SCHINIA. Type. Na cipae, Jalon, Were, [os Heil ((USI7) ssouncsogcoosnonosboscdonbncbonbode gracilenta. Ramila NG Vien eNO Ct. miley) lin Os (SOD) aaee ee eees enecee tee eeereeateeeee nudina. Euleucyptera, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 829 (1865) ... cumatilis. Tricopis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 75 (1874) ...... chrysellus. Porrima, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 798 (1877)............08. sanguinea. Bessilat Grove; Lapiio, Le psliiGi (USS) manecectansesetesse scene eee luca. Trileuca, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 265 (1883) ......... trifascia. Proboscis fully developed; palpi fringed with hair below, porrect to just beyond the large rounded frontal prominence, with curved corneous plate below it; eyes smooth, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales; fore tibizx short and broad, with a long curved claw and two spines on inner side and four or five claws on outer, diminishing in length towards base of tibia; mid and hind tibiew strongly spined. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and the termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. A. Fore wing yellowish white with the markings reduced to POUND GS: iesscdn des shoes cee ebeameeeneeasene neck aeenaeeeneee cree eeCeaeen luna. B. Fore wing with the markings not reduced to points. «. Fore wing with the ground-colour silvery white. «'. Fore wing without medial band. a*, Fore wing without antemedial band..................+6- oculata. 1°, Fore wing with antemedial band from cell to inner IMAP BIN) “cots cee ousctnceanecasececenesnente mete eee eOne reniformis. «>. Fore wing with complete antemedial band. a, Hind wing with discoidal spot .............cc0cceeraee cumatilis. /°. Hind wing without discoidal spot. a, Fore wing with the white medial area broad... hwistia. )*, Fore wing with the white medial area narrow. ¢enwescens. SCHINIA. >. Fore wing with medial band. a2, Fore wing without rufous terminal band ............ 22, Fore wing with rufous-tinged terminal band. a, Fore wing with the rufous not extending to inner side of subterminal line ............2:seeeeee sees BBE 3°. Fore wing with the rufous extending to inner side of subterminal line ..........eeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeees }. Fore wing with the ground-colour not silvery white. @, Hind wing with the ground-colour white to ochreous or pale brown. a*, Fore wing with white fascia in cell ......+-s10+---eeee+ }?, Fore wing without white fascia in cell. a®, Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. a*, Fore wing with the ground-colour pale ochreous. }'. Fore wing with the ground-colour reddish grey . 3, Fore wing with the markings well-developed. a*. Fore wing with the subterminal line oblique, straight. «°, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique, straight ....... beatae sbaiscaiisiesticidlaSaidisiews sateaietenwos a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled Outward sim Cellier cmcteisessceseselsc Saco b°, Fore wing with the antemedial line ex- curved in cell......... M ccac case sence Cebisiee sea }*. Fore wing with the subterminal line irregular. a, Fore wing with the ground-colcur not fulvous- red. a®, Fore wing without purplish pink on basa! and postmedial areas. ai, Fore wing with the postinedial line not dentate or crenulate. a’, Hind wing without discoidal spot... }°. Hind wing with discoidal spot. a®, Fore wing with the lines evenly Cuvee peeameisses serie ZoodeqnosseOBOUE }°, Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly excurved at middle, the postmedial line beyond the cell 2°, Fore wing with the postmedial line more or less dentate or crenulate. a, Fore wing with the markings tinged with olive. a. Kore wing with the antemedial line very strongly angled outwards below the cell............. Sosonncenden oc 2°. Fore wing with the antemedial line moderately angled or excurved below the cell. a°, Fore wing without black point in middle of cell. a, Hind wing pale fuscous with medial whitish band ......... 6, Hind wing white with sub- terminal olive band............ }.°, Fore wing with black point in middle of cell ...... Apr adaboc ape 36 }3, Fore wing with the markings dull brown not tinged with olive. «', Forewing without dark marks before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial lines.............2-+0+» cisadd 73 ciliata. chrysella. aleucis. lucilinea. neglecta. diffusa. trifascia. oleagina. gracilenta. seaplagiata. biundulata, separa. acutiline. parmeliana, obliqua. nundina, coereitd,. 74. NOCTUID. >". Fore wing with dark marks before the antemedtal and beyond the postmedial lines. a‘°. Fore wing with the subterminal line hardly defined by brown on outer side. a", Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved beyond the cell. badba. b'., Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at VIMO, yatenssseMonarcsasncts caress seutata. }}°, Fore wing with the subterminal line distinctly defined by brown on outer side. a’, Hind wing reddish buff ...... arefacta. 6', Hind wing white. a, Fore wing with the medial area pale grey-brown. a’, Fore wing with the ante- medial lineevenlycurved. do/osa. b\*. Fore wing with the ante- medial line waved ...... cupes. b. Fore wing with the medial Areaaw itemise cae cees seeeees tertia. c*. Fore wing with the markings of terminal area more or less rufous. a, Thorax red-brown irrorated with white and black scales ........ .....: albafascia. o°, Thorax white or tinged with ochreous. a’, Hind wing with distinct dis- coidal lunule. a, Fore wing with the ground- colour ochreous white......... bruce?. b', Fore wing with the ground- colour pure white ............ unimacula. 6°, Hind wing without discoidal lunule. a, Fore wing with the antemedial line angied outwards on MEIN NELVULE! ceessc-ececeese valsinghamt. }\!, Fore wing with the antemedial line regularly curved ......... lanul, 6°, Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas purplish pink. a’. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with browMs.ss.sccesescceees se cerere regia. 67, Hind wing wholly brownish. a>, Hind wing with the cilia white inter- sected! with) DrOWN:..2.,-c6c-c-s-e-seceee- gloriosa. }°: Hind wing with the cilia brown tipped Withi whitish si cses.-wscaseess sere omeetee sanguinea. }°, Fore wing fulvous-red irrorated with white... safwrata. 6‘. Hind wing pink, with black terminal band....... 50005086 roseitincta. c'. Hind wing yellow, with dark terminal band. a’. Hind wing with large discoidal spot. a Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly in- curved below? Vein 4 it. i.e.csc: se--sesmacirees nocacoace, HNL 6°. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly incvrved at submedian fold............... aeenerontn se jaguarina. 6°. Hind wing with slight discoidal point.. ............... petulans. n2 - Hind wing without discoidal spot’ ..............02e00 ee arcigera. SCHINIA. 75 d'. Hind wing black-brown. a>. Hind wing with yellow patch on disk nearly bisected bystiherdiscordallispots.i: sesscasenmteeesatecncscsseaece sordida. b>. Hind wing uniform black-brown ...............0...--++ limbalis. 104. Schinia luxa. (Plate LVI. fig. 11.) Bessula luxa, Grote, Pap. i. p. 176 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 266. Q. Head and thorax pale straw-yellow; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing pale straw-yellow ; an antemedial brown point below the cell; a point in middle of cell and discoidal lunule ; a waved postmedial line angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 and inwards in discal and submedian folds, where there are brown points ; a sinuous subterminal series of brown points and a terminal series of brown strize. Hind wing white, the inner area and termen slightly tinged with yellow. Fore tibise with one claw and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, New Mexico (Sno) i 25 “hype: Kap. 32 millim. *105. Schinia oculata. (Plate LIX. fig. 9.) Schinia oculata, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 488 (1900). Head and tegule yellowish, the latter irrorated with brown ; thorax white with yellow markings; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing with the basal area creamy white, mottled with ochreous ; medial area silvery white ; reniform ochreous defined by black scales, the costa above it creamy white; terminal area creamy white, with a slight subterminal line on it angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; an apical brownish patch and a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, with a broad diffused fuscous terminal band. Underside of fore wing with the disk blackish, the inner and costal margins yellowish, a yellowish subterminal line and blackish discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Phoenix, Rio Verde Mis. wp. 28 millim. This species is unknown so me ; ; fieured from a photograph from type. *106, Schinia reniformis. (Plate LVII. fig. 6.) Schinia reniformis, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 487 (1900). 3. Silvery white. Fore wing with obliquely curved olive- fuscous antemedial line from cell to inner margin; reniform olive- fuscous, constricted at middle; a postmedial band expanding widely at costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal band narrowing to a point above tornus; the olive markings suffused with white scales. Hind wing with traces of fuscous subterminal band, an apical patch and terminal line. Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous fascia below costa ; the reniform, postmedial, and terminal bands more prominent. 76 NOCTUID&. Fore tibiz with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. ; Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp. 26 millim. 107. Schinia cumatilis. Euleucyptera cumatilis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iv. p. 380, pl. ii. £. 6 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. Heliothis sulmula, Streck. Rep. Chief. Eng. 1878-79, p. 1862, pl. ii. f. 5 (1879). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white. Fore wing silvery white; the antemedial line waved, obtusely angled on median nervure, oblique towards costa and inner margin and with an olive- grey band on its inner side; the discoidal spot of underside faintly indicated above ; the postmedial line waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, bent inwards to below angle of cell and slightly outwards to inner margin, the area beyond it olive-grey, with a waved white Fig. 28.—Schinia cumatilis, O. }. subterminal line expanding somewhat towards costa ; termen tinged with white; cilia white, olive at apex. Hind wing pure white, with grey discoidal spot and narrow maculate terminal band ending in a point at tornus. Underside of fore wing with diffused grey streak on costal area and spots at middle and end of cell. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and tivo claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 @ Grote Coll., Denver (Oslar), 1 9, New Mexico. wp. 34 millim. 108. Schinia hulstia. (Plate LVII. fig. 7.) Schinia hulstia, Tepper, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. x. p. 228 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 274. 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white; fore legs tinged with olive above. Fore wing silvery white; the antemedial line with olive-grey band on its inner edge, bent outwards at costa and on median nervure, then sinuous to inner margin; the postmedial line waved, slightly incurved in discal fold, and below vein 4 ineurved to below end of cell, the area beyond it olive-grey with a minutely waved white subterminal line expanding towards apex and slightly excurved below middle; cilia white, with a greyish line through them. Hind wing white, with diffused fuscous subterminal SCHINIA. TE and terminal bands obsolescent towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the costal area suffused with fuscous, a discoidal spot; hind wing with slight discoidal spot. Fore tibiz with one claw and two spines on inner side and two claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas 1 9, Colorado. wp. 34 millim. *109,. Schinia tenuescens. (Plate LXIX. fig. 3.) Lygranthacia tenuescens, Grote, Can, Ent. xv. p. 128 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. Head, thorax, and abdomen silvery white. Fore wing with the basal area pale olive, bounded by the antemedial dark line, which is strongly excurved below cell; the medial area silvery white, very narrow and bounded by the irregularly waved postmedial dark line, which is excurved between veins 4 and 2, then incurved ; terminal area pale olive, with the waved white subterminal line on it. Hind wing white, the termen shaded with olive. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and two claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona. Hvp. 22 millim. This species is un- known to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 110. Schinia ciliata. (Plate LIX. fiz. 10.) Schinia ciliata, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 488 (1900). 2. Head yellow in front, the vertex and thorax clothed with creamy-white and rufous scales; abdomen white. Fore wing with the basal area ochreous mixed with rufous, then silvery white to the subterminal line, the terminal area creamy white; a rather broad ochreous and rufous medial band with irregularly waved edges, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled and almost conjoined to the brown reniform stigma; subterminal line rufous, interrupted and punctiform; a rufous spot on termen below apex and some points on termen from it to vein 3. Hind wing white ; the termen narrowly dusky. Underside of fore wing blackish except on inner margin and at apex; hind wing white, with a black spot on termen below middle. Fore tibize with one claw and three spines on inner side and two claws and two spines on outer. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Hot Springs, Roswell (Cockerell), 19. Hap. 22 millim. 111. Schinia chrysella. (Plate LVI. fig. 12.) Tricepis chrysellus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 76 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 274. Heliothis conchula, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 108. f. 41 (187-4). Head and thorax pale ferruginous mixed with whitish ; abdomen white, slightly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery white; the base pale ferruginous, with its outer edge somewhat concave 78 NOCTUIDA. a ferruginous medial band with somewhat darker sinuous edges, oblique from costa to lower angie of cell, where it is angled, then inwardly oblique ; a pale ferruginous terminal band with dentate inner edge with darker or blackish spots on it, a white patch at apex, and a terminal series of black striz on white spots; cilia ferruginous and white. Hind wing white, with diffused cupreous- brown terminal band. Fore tibix with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), 3 ¢,3 9 type. Hap. 30 millim., 112. Schinia aleucis. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) Tricopis aleucts, Hary. Can. Ent. vii. p. 117 (1875) ; id. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 10, pl. 2. f.5; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. ¢. Head and thorax white, mixed with pale fulvous and dark brown; abdomen white tinged with fulvous. Fore wing silvery white ; the basal area pale fulvous, with waved outer edge produced on costa and inner margin to join the medial fulvous band with somewhat darker waved edges, constricted at middle and with its outer edge conjoined to a rounded spot beyond the discocellulars ; the terminal area pale fulvous, narrowing to inner margin, and with a waved subterminal white line on it expanding into spots on costa and above tornus. Hind wing white, with pale fulvous terminal rather diffused band narrowing to tornus. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 92 type. Hap. 28 millim, 113. Schinia? lucilinea. (Plate LVILI. fig. 8.) Heliothis lucilinea, W1k. xv. 1749 (1858). 2. (Fore legs wanting.) Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; peetus and legs mixed with white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous brown; a pure white fascia occupying the cell and partially conjoined to a somewhat conical patch beyond it; diffused fuscous streaks on costa, subcostal and median nervures; an antemedial purplish-grey patch on inner area; the postmedial line white, defined on each side by purplish grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved ; the subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being rather paler; the termen rufous, with a series of minute deep black streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing white ; the veins streaked with brown; the terminal area suffused with brown, narrowing to apex and tornus. Underside of fore wing white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with ochreous, a black subterminal band between veins 7 and 2, narrowing above; hind wing with obscure subterminal blackish band between vein 6 and submedian fold. Hab. Harti, 1 2 type. Exp. 34 millim. SCHINIA. 79 *114. Schinia? neglecta. Schinia neglecta, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 10 (1898). Pale ochreous. Fore wing with extremely slight traces of ante- and postmedial lines and reniform stigma; cilia white. Hind wing white, with an ochreous tinge especially towards inner margin ; cilia white. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Loveland. Eup. 23 millim. This species is unknown to me, *115. Schinia diffusa. (Plate LIX. fig. 11.) Schina diffusa, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 125 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 279. Head and thorax pale reddish grey; abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale reddish grey, with a faded washed-out appearance, the markings scarcely traceable ; the basal and subterminal areas slightly darker in colour; antemedial line slender, pale, angled outwards in submedian interspace ; reniform very ill-defined, dusky ; post- medial line slender, crenulate, excurved from costa to vein +, then incurved ; subterminal line faintly marked at costa only. Hind wing whitish, very slightly tinged with reddish or yellowish. Underside whitish, irrorated with reddish towards termen. Fore tibie with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 8. Park. wp. 27 millim. This species is unknown to me ; ficured from a photograph from type. 116. Schinia trifascia. (Plate LVI. fig. 16.) Schinia trifascia, Hiibn. Zutr. i. p. 11, ff. 53; 34 (1827); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. Anthophila lineata, W1k. xii. 830 (1857). Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with pale olive-brown. Fore wing pale olive-brown ; oblique narrow medial, postmedial, and subterminal white bands, the two former slightly bent inwards to costa. Hind wing white, tinged with pale olive-brown towards termen. * Fore tibiz with one claw and two spines on inner side and five claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., E. of Rocky Mountains, 2 ¢ type lineata, Alabama Ire pt NERS Grote Coll., Colorado, Denver. Exp. 24-32 millim. 117. Schinia oleagina. (Plate LVI. fig. 17.) Schinia oleagina, Morr. Proc, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 67; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. 3g. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white, the last dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing silky ochreous white tinged with pale olive-brown on basal area, becoming deeper in colour towards the whitish antemedial line, which is very oblique from costa to 80 NOCTUIDE. middle of cell, where it is obtusely angled, then very oblique to inner margin near base: the postmedial line whitish, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved, the area beyond it rather darker to the nearly straight whitish subterminal line. Hind wing white; the terminal area slightly tinged with reddish, leaving a whitish patch on termen between veins 4 and 2. Underside of fore wing tinged with red beyond the cell from below costa to vein 3, a slight subterminal line. Fore tibize with one claw and one spine on inner side and two claws and one spine on outer. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Salida,1 ¢. Hp. 34 millim. 118. Schinia gracilenta. (Plate LVI. fig. 18.) Schinia gracilenta, Hitbn. Zutr. i. p. 8, ff. 5, 6 (1827); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. Head and thorax pale brown, the scales with pale tips; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing pale dull reddish brown irrorated with grey ; the medial area often greyish; an ochreous-white antemedial line, Fig. 29.—Schinia gracilenta, 3. }. excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; a postmedial line slightly excurved from costa to vein 3, then slightly incurved ; an oblique subterminal line. Hind wing pale ochreous, the terminal area slightly tinged with brown. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., S. States, Texas, 1 ¢,2 9,Grote Coll. Hap. 34 millim. 119. Schinia sexplagiata. (Plate LVI. fig. 15.) Schinia sexplagiata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 124 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. ‘ Schinia pyraloides, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. 1. p. 9 (1899). ¢. Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen white. Fore wing with the basal area red-brown, slightly irrorated with ochreous to the curved white antemedial line ; the medial area brownish white irrorated with fuscous ; reniform ill-defined, fuscous ; the postmedial line white, strongly excurved from costa to yein 4, then strongly SCHINIA,. 81 incurved ; the area beyond it brownish white irrorated with fuscous, and with dark brown patches on costal and inner areas before the white subterminal line which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, with slight dark discoidal lunule and fuscous brown terminal band, its inner edge excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; cilia white with brown line at base. Underside white ; fore wing with small fuscous orbicular and reniform stigmata ; hind wing with slight curved subterminal line. 2. Fore wing with the medial and terminal areas darker. Fore tibize with one claw and one spine on inner side and two claws and two spines on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Manitou, 1 ¢,1 9. ep. 26 millim. *120. Schinia biundulata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 4.) Schinia biundulata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 129 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 275. Head white with a slight olive tinge; thorax strongly tinged with olive; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing pale olivaceous, the terminal area somewhat paler; ante- and postmedial lines strong, white, the former excurved and defined on inner side by a few black scales, the latter excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, defined by a few black scales; cilia whitish. Hind wing whitish slightly tinged with olive; a dusky discoidal spot, and ill-defined terminal band. Underside of fore wing silver-grey, with the costa and termen narrowly yellowish: hind wing white, with slight discoidal spot. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado. vp. 23 millim. This species is un- known to me, figured from drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 121. Schinia separata, (Plate LVI. fig. 22.) Lygranthecia separata, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 277. . Head and thorax white slightly tinged with pale olive-brown ; fore and mid tarsi slightly banded with olive; abdomen white. Fore wing white, entirely suffused with pale greyish olive-brown and slightly irrorated with white; the antemedial line white, defined by blackish on inner side, strongly excurved to origin of vein 2 aud very oblique towards costa and inner margin; reniform blackish suffused with white and rather constricted at middle; the postmedial line white, slightly defined by black on outer side, oblique towards costa, excurved between veins 6 and 3, then sinuous; a weakly trisinuate white subterminal line almost touching the post- medial line at vein 5; cilia white. Hind wing white, with promi- nent black discoidal patch ; a curved subterminal band confluent on apical area with the terminal line. Underside of fore wing with black spots at middle and end of cell and blackish subterminal band; hind wing with black discoidal spot and subterminal band. Fore tibize with one claw and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer, Hab. US.A., Nevada, 1!9 type. Hep. 34 millim. VOL. ly. G 82 NOCTUIDZ. 122, Schinia acutilinea. (Plate LVI. fig. 21.) Lygranthecia acutilinea, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 282 (1878); id. Ill. Essay, 63, pl. 3. £34; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 277. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with black, olive and white scales; tibize and tarsi banded olive-brown and white. Fore wing white, mostly suffused with olive-brown and irrorated with black, the olive deepest before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line ; the antemedial line white, defined by black on inner side and - minutely and irregularly dentate, ‘acutely angled on vein 2 below the cell and very oblique towards costa and inner margin; an obscure blackish reniform spot somewhat constrieted at middle; the post- medial line white, defined by black on outer side, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved; an irregularly trisinuate white subterminal line defined by blackish on inner side ; cilia chequered white and blackish. Hind wing white, irrorated and suffused with black, leaving white patches in and beyond cell and before inner half of termen; a blackish discoidal spot; a diffused postmedial band confluent on apical area with the terminal line. Underside of fore wing with black spots in middle and end of cell and blackish subterminal band; hind wing with black discoidal spots and postmedial band on inner half of wing. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and two claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 g type, Montana, Utah. vp. 30 millim. *123. Schinia parmeliana. Lygranthecia parmeliana, H. Edw. Pap. ii. p. 14 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 277. Head and thorax dull ochreous ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing dull ochreous with a greenish tinge ; basal area suffused with olive- brown; antemedial line narrowly defined by white and angled outwards at median nervure; mediai area paler, with a narrow medial olive-brown shade obscuring the large dark reniform stigma ; postmedial line white, sinuous and clouded with brown at middle ; postmedial area dark olive-brown, paler towards termen ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous, with the costal area and an obscure medial band whitish ; cilia of both wings chequered brown and drab, Underside pale, with dusky discoidal spots and terminal areas. Hab. U.S.A., Maryland. Exp. 24millim. This species is un- known to me. *124, Schinia obliqua. (Plate LIX. fig. 8.) Schinia obliqua, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. x. p. 229 (1889); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. 3. Head and thorax white; abdomen tinged with brown. Fore wing white with the markings pale olive; the antemedial band oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled, then SCHINIA. 83 inwardly oblique ; reniform defined by blackish and with an oblique olive shade from it to inner margin; postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, with an olive band beyond it extend- ing to the sinuous subterminal line ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white with slight discoidal spot and ill-defined olive subterminal band. Fore tibie with one claw and three spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, Exp, 25 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type. 125. Schinia nundina. (Plate LVI. fig. 20.) Noctua nundina, Drury, Ill. i. p. 35, pl. 18. f. 5 (1770); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. Noctua nigrirena, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 266 (1810); Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 114. Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Fore wing white; an olive mark at base of costa; an olive antemedial band with irregularly waved edge, angled at median nervure and narrowing towards inner margin; a black point in middle of cell with small olive spot on costa above it; the reniform black, much constricted at middle and with bluish-white discoidal lunule on it, placed on the olive medial shade which is broad and diffused from costa to vein 2, then retracted to below middle of cell, narrow and bisinuate; the postmedial line waved, white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, and expanding into patches on costa and inner area, with a broad olive band on its outer edge with irregularly trisinuate outer edge; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with more or less developed olive discoidal lunule and subterminal band from costa to vein J, diffused outwards to termen at apex. Underside with the discoidal spots and subterminal bands blackish. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Middle, Southern, and Central States, 2 ¢,1 9, New Jersey, Arizona, Mesilla (Cockerell),1 g. Exp. 26-32 millim., 126. Schinia coercita. (Plate LVI. fig. 24.) Lygranthecia coercita, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 156 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 277. @. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white suffused with ochreous brown; the antemedial line white, angled just below median nervure and oblique towards costa and inner margin, defined by darker brown on inner side ; orbicular small, brown, elongate; reniform grey, brown-edged, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; the postmedial line white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved: a broader subterminal white line angled inwards almost to the postmedial line in discal fold; a terminal series of black points; cilia white tinged with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, with brownish discoidal @ 2 84 NOCTUID®. line and the termen tinged with brownish. Underside of fore wing with the small orbicular and reniform stigmata black. Fore tibix with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, 1 2 type. Hep. 30 millim. 127. Schinia balba. (Plate LVI. fig. 23.) Lygranthecia balba, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 156 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. IN. Am. p. 277. 6. Head and base of tegule white tinged with ochreous ; thorax pale yellow-brown ; legs whitish and pale brown ; abdomen white, banded with ochreous. Fore wing white tinged with ochreous; the base suffused with ochreous and irrorated with dark brown; an antemedial dark brown band from below costa to inner margin, angled just below median nervure and diffused on inner side; reni- fora lunulate, dark brown, with the oblique ochreous medial shade from it to inner margin; the postmedial line formed by a series of dark brown spots with a trisinuate brown band on its outer edge ; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia tinged with ochreous and with a faint dark line through them. Hind wing white irrorated with dark brown; a faint discoidal spot ; the terminal area dark brown Underside of fore wing with slight black streak in middle of cell and discoidal spot ; hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown and with brownish spot on termen towards tornus. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 28 millim. 128. Schinia scutata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 5.) Heliothis scutatus, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 861, pl. vi. f. 15 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Head and thorax white mixed with brown; abdomen white, tinged with brown above. Fore wing white; the basal area suffused with brown especially towards costa and antemedial line which is double, the inner line strong, highly curved and slightly sinuous ; medial area slightly tinged with brown; orbicular small, round, obsolescent, with dark centre and defining line ; reniform very large, with fuscous centre and pale annulus defined by brown, a brown patch on costa above it, a slight sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, the outer line strong, minutely fenbane at the veins, bent outwar ds below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled, strongly incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by a black patch at costa, then by brown, and on outer side by the terminal area being tinged with brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at submedian fold ; ioanelt series of small blackish lunules; cilia with a brown line through them. Hind wing white; the basal area tinged with brown ; a large discoidal lunule; the terminal area fuscous, with ochreous-white patch between veins 2 and 5; cilia white. Under- SCHINIA. 85 side white ; fore wing with small black orbicular and large reniform stigmata. Fore tibize with one claw and one spine on inner side and two claws on outer. Hab. Moneotta, Uliassutai, 1 ¢,1 9. vp. 34-36 millim, *129, Schinia arefacta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 6.) Tamila arefacta, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p, 123 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N Am. p. 276. ¢. Head and thorax creamy white; abdomen reddish. Fore wing creamy white, with the bands pale brown ; the basal shade not reaching the costa; medial shade waved with an interrupted band of rich dark brown on it; the postmedial shade with waved edges with a few dark brown scales on them representing the post- medial and subterminal lines. Hind wing reddish buff, with traces of double medial band, Underside deep buff; fore wing with a reddish tinge, the discal spot prominent. Hab, US.A., Florida. Exp. 20 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. *130. Schinia dolosa. Schinia dolosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 9 (1898). Head and thorax dull greyish brown; abdomen whitish. Fore wing dull greyish brown; the basal and subterminal areas some- times darker than the medial area ; the lines whitish, distinct or ill- defined ; the antemedial line evenly curved; the postmedial line fine, white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing white, with black discoidal spot and broad, even, terminal black band; cilia white or white and fuscous. Underside white suffused with fuscous, the markings indistinct. Hab, Texas, San Antonio (Boll), Hep, 22-25 millim. This species is unknown to me. 131. Schinia cupes. (Plate LVII. fig. 2. Heliothis cupes, Grote, i rans. Am. Ent. Soe. v. p. 118 (1875); id. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. 311, pi. iii. f.4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am p- 280. Heliothis crotchii, H. Wdw. Proc, Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 185 (1875). 3. Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale brown, some of the scales tipped with black; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous white, tinged and irrorated with brown leaving the veins pale; a pale sinuous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined on inner side by brown; a pale antemedial line defined by brown, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below cell; the orbicular and reniform with grey centres, and brownish annuli defined by black; the postmedial line pale defined by brown, bent outwards below cost: 1, Slightly angled inwards in discal fold and strongly incurved below vein 3; a ‘subterminal 86 NOCTUID&. series of pale and black dentate marks, bent outwards between veins 7 and 6 and angled inwards in discal and submedian folds; a ter- minal series of black striae. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and discoidal spot brown; a terminal dark brown band with pale subterminal spots on it between veins 1 and 4. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata black. Fore tibie with one claw and two or three spines on inner side and four to six claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., 2 3 type, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Colorado, California, 8. Diego, 1 ¢ type crotcehti. Exp. 26-36 millim. 132. Schinia tertia. (Plate LVI. fig. 30.) Tamila tertia, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 212; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 279. Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with brownish ochreous, the thorax irrorated with dark brown scales ; tarsi banded with brown. Fore wing with the basal area white, irrorated and suffused with brown and leaden grey; the antemedial line waved, black, with a similar indistinct line beyond it; the medial area ochreous white, the outlines of the claviform and orbicular indicated by some black scales; the terminal half of wing brown largely suffused with leaden grey; the reniform leaden grey, with black lines on its inner and outer edges; the postmedial line white, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved, and with a series of black spots on its outer edge; some white points on costa towards apex; an irregularly dentate white sub- terminal line, angled outwards below costa and inwards in discal and submedian folds; a terminal series of black points; cilia brown at base, at tips chequered blackish-brown and white. Hind wing ochreous white; a brownish discoidal spot ; a subterminal band and terminal line. Underside of fore wing with black spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars and blackish postmedial band. Fore tibize with one claw and three spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Dallas (Boll), 2 35, 3 2 type, New Mexico, Roswell (Cockerell), 1 g. Hap. 28-30 millim. 133. Schinia albafascia. (Plate LVI. fiz. 31.) Schinia albafuscia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 231 (1883); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 279. 3. Head and thorax white, mixed with grey and brown scales ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the last slightly tinged on dorsum with ochreous. Fore wing white, the basal area suffused with grey, blackish and rufous to the antemedial black line, which is erect and angled inwards in cell; orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale bluish grey defined by a few black scales, the former small, round, the latter placed on a very faint pale rufous band incurved to costa and below the cell; postmedial line black, interrupted at the veins, SCHINIA. 87 excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved; the area beyond it rufous irrorated with white and the veins whitish ; an ill-defined white subterminal line angled inwards in discal and submedian folds, and with some black marks and blue-grey suffusion before it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, with greyish and fuscous discoidal spot; a pale brown and fuscous terminal band, broad at costa, angled inwards at vein 2 and narrow- ing to a point at tornus; a terminal series of black points ; cilia white, brown at base. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata black; an irregular interrupted postmedial band; hind wing with black discoidal spot and patch above tornus. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Utah, Fort Thornburgh, Colorado, South Park, Denver, 2 g. Hep. 24 millim. 134. Schinia brucei. (Plate LVI. fig. 26.) Schinia brucei, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 125 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with pale rufous. Fore wing ochreous white, suffused in parts and slightly irrorated with brown; the basal area suffused with reddish brown ou costal half and before the antemedial line, which is angled slightly inwards below costa and outwards below cell, then oblique, whitish, defined by dark brown on inner side, diffused on outer ; the medial area suffused with brown; the orbicular represented by a slight dark mark in cell; the reniform with diffused dark outline and pale centre; the postmedial line whitish, minutely crenulate, strongly excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, its outer edge defined by blackish scales followed by a rufous band extending to the pale outwardly diffused subterminal line, which is angled inwards in discal fold; the termen suffused with pale yellow-brown ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown; a diffused brown discoidal lunule ; the terminal area brown, narrowing to a point at tornus and with pale spots before termen between veins 2 and 4, Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and two claws and one spine on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 8. Park, Colorado Springs, 1 ¢. Exp. 30 millim. 135. Schinia unimacula. (Plate LVI. fig. 19.) Schinia unimacula, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 126 (1891); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. @. Silvery white. Fore wing with dull blood-red antemedial narrow curved band obsolescent except between subcostal nervure and submedian fold where it is angled; reniform dull red, angled inwards on median nervure, a small white spot on its upper part, and the lower discocellular and end of median nervure white on its 88 NOCTUIDZE. lower part, an oblique pale reddish shade from it to inner margin ; the postmedial line white, waved, dentate on veins 3 and 2, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, its outer edge defined by small red spots above and below vein 6 and patches below veins 3 and 2, the area beyond it tinged with red to the subterminal line which is slightly curved, with three somewhat dentate blood-red marks on its inner side below costa; the terminal area white, extending to inner side of subterminal line between veins 7 and 5; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing with pale reddish discoidal bar; the terminal area tinged with reddish, leaving a white patch before the reddish terminal line between veins 4 and 2. Underside of fore wing with dark discoidal lunule, reddish subterminal band, and terminal series of black points ; hind wing with dark discoidal lunule, the terminal area tinged with reddish. Fore tibize with one claw and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Colorado Spa, 1 9. Hap. 34 millim. 136. Schinia valsinghami. (Plate LVI. fig. 25.) Lygranthecia walsinghani, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 20 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous; fore tarsi banded with ochreous. Fore wing white suffused with ferru- ginous; the basal area ferruginous, the base of inner margin whitish ; a waved white subbasal line from costa to vein 1: the antemedial line white, strongly angled just below median nervure, with a blackish line on its inner edge between it and the ferru- ginous area; the reniform an obscure dark-edged lunule; the postmedial line white, minutely dentate, excuryed from costa to vein 3, then incurved, with a deep ferruginous band between it and the white subterminal line, which is excurved below costa and middle and angled inwards almost to the postmedial line in discal fold; cilia chequered white and pale ferruginous. Hind wing white, suffused with ferruginous except at base and inner margin; an obscure discoidal lunule distinct on underside ; cilia white, underside of fore wing with the reniform stigma ferruginous. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Sheep Rock ( Walsingham), 5 3,7 9, type. Exp. 28-32 millim. 137. Schinia lanul. (Plate LVI. fig. 13.) Heliothis lanul, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 132 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 285. Tamita velaris, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 197 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 274. Schinia ochreifascia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 126 (1883). 2. Head and thorax white, mixed with pale fulyous; abdomen SCHINIA. 89 white tinged with fulvous. Fore wing white, a curved pale fulvous antemedial band with sinuous edges and narrowing towards inner margin ; a broader curved medial band, narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge excised below costa, with a small deep ferruginous discoidal lunule on its outer edge, followed by a small round spot beyond the cell; curved, minutely dentate, postmedial and subterminal fulvous lines with the area between them greyish; a deeper fulvous terminal band from apex to vein 4, with some blackish points on termen. Hind wing pale fulvous yellow, with slightly darker terminal band. Underside of fore wing with curved subterminal fulvous band. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., California, Caliente, 1 2 type velaris. Exp. 24 millim. 138. Schinia regia. (Plate LVI. fig. 52.) Heliothis regia, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 121 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 279. 2. White; frons, metathorax, and abdomen very slightly tinged with pale brown. Fore wing with the basal area rose-pink, its outer edge acutely angled on median nervure and very oblique towards costa and inner margin; the costal edge slightly tinged with pink ; an oblique pale fawn-coloured medial shade conjoined to a diffused discoidal patch; a pink subterminal band, its inner edge excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, its outer slightly excised in discal and submedian folds; termen and cilia tinged with pale fawn-colour. Hind wing slightly tinged with pale fawn- colour, especially on discocellulars and terminal area, the latter with some diffused pink between veins 6 and 1. Fore tibize with one claw and three spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., 1 2, Grote Coll., Kansas, Texas, Colorado. LEwp. 30 millim. *139. Schinia gloriosa. Heliothis gloriosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 182 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 280. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, with pale olive shades on dorsal surface. Fore wing dull purplish red and pale olive ; basal area purplish; antemedial line white, somewhat dentate at the veins; medial area olive; reniform purple, extending to just beyond the dentate white postmedial line ; terminal area purplish, olive towards termen, the veins being streaked with purplish ; cilia pale and dark olive. Hind wing dirty white; a slight discoidal spot, the terminal area tinged with brownish; cilia white inter- sected with brown. Underside of fore wing white, with fuscous discoidal spot, a pale crimson shade towards apex and a broad 90 NOCTUID A. fuscous subterminal band, cilia fuscous and white ; hind wing white, with slight discoidal spot, a slight crimson tinge towards apex. Hab, U.S.A., Texas. vp. 38 millim. This species is unknown to me. 140. Schinia sanguinea. (Plate LVII. fig. 1.) Oria sanguinea, Geyer, Zutr. iv. p. 9, ff. 613, 614 (1832); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 279. Schinia carminosa, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 142 (1883). Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish, suffused with dull brown or in some specimens with purplish red; the basal area purple-red to the antemedial line, which is acutely angled just below median nervure and very oblique towards costa and inner margin; slight white streaks on the veins at the ante- and postmedial lines; an obscure diffused brown or blackish discoidal spot, rarely with a well-marked medial shade from it to inner margin; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, with a purple-red band on its outer edge, emitting streaks to termen at veins 7, 5,4 and at tornus; cilia brown or chequered brown and white. Hind wing brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, with indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Fore tibiz with one claw and three spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 3 ¢,3 9, Florida. Hvp. 32-36 millim. 141. Schinia saturata. (Plate LVI. fig. 29.) LIygranthecia saturata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 74 (1874) * Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. Heliothis rubiginosa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 122 (1876). ¢. Head and thorax ochreous irrorated and suffused with rufous, the scales of thorax with pale tips; abdomen ochreous, Fore wing ochreous, suffused with bright rufous and irrorated with white; the antemedial line rather indistinct, white, waved, and excurved at median nervure; the postmedial line minutely waved, white, slightly defined by fuscous on outer side, bent outwards from below costa to vein 3; traces of a sinuous subterminal line; a terminal series of brown striz. Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous, especially on discocellulars and terminal area. Underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with rufous, slight rufous discoidal spots. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., 1 3, Grote Coll., Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Kansas, 8. California. Hap. 30 millim. 142. Schinia roseitincta. (Plate LVI. fig. 28.) Lygranthecia roseitincta, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. Melicleptria cxvaltata, H, Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 124 (1884). 3S. Head and thorax fulvous orange; tibie and tarsi tinged SCHINIA. OT with pink; abdomen pink, greyish towards base of dorsum, the extremity orange. Fore wing pale dull olive-brown; the ante- medial line indistinct, obtusely angled on median nervure, with a broad area of pink suffusion before it; the indistinct reniform sometimes with some pink scales on it; the postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved; the subterminal line angled inwards below costa and in discal fold, incurved below vein 3, and with the area between it and the postmedial line mostly suffused with pink. Hind wing crimson, with broad black-brown terminal band with sinuous inner edge and narrowing to a point at tornus. Underside of fore wing with blackish patch below base of cell; the discoidal spot black ; the terminal area black except towards apex. Fore tibiz with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type, (Belfrage) 1 g, Colorado. Eep. 20 villim. 143. Schinia lynx. (Plate LVI. fig. 27.) Anthecia lynx, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 185 (1852); Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phii. ii. p. 343, pl. vi. f.6; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 278. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with olive-brown; abdomen orange. Fore wing ochreous tinged with olive-brown; the ante- medial line pale, angled on median nervure, oblique towards costa and inner margin, and with a broad diffused rufous band on its inner side; fomifaond lunulate, obscure, fuscous, on the indistinct rufous medial shade ; ; the postmedial line pale, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, with a rufous band between it and the indistinct pale subterminal line which is excurved below costa and middle and angled inward almost to the postmedial line in discal told. Hind wing orange, the base and often the inner area suffused with black; a large black discoidal lunule, separate or conjoined at its lower extremity to the broad black terminal band which expands somewhat below middle ; cilia orange, with a fuscous line through them. Underside with the discoidal spots prominent, black, con- joined to a large black patch on tornal area; streaks below base of celi and sometimes on fore wing, a spot in middle of cell. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and four claws on outer. Hah, U.S.A., from Massachusetts to Florida east of Mississippi, 1 g, 4 9. type, Alabama, Texas, Bastrop Co., 1 ¢. Hap. 20-26 millim. 144. Schinia jaguarina. (Plate LVII. fig. 3.) Anthecia jaguarina, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 184, pl. 9. f. 11 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 280. Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge; abdomen orange, ochreous white below. Fore wing with the basal area olive-brown, becoming rufous towards the antemedial line, which is sharply angled below the cell and oblique towards costa and inner 92 NOCTUID#. margin; the medial area ochreous white tinged with brown ; the reniform very faint, dusky, on traces of a waved medial line; the postmedial line pale, erect from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved and bent outwards again to inner margin ; the subterminal line incurved below vein 2, and with the area between it and the postmedial line olive-brown sometimes tinged with rufous; the termen pale, with a series of dark points. Hind wing orange, with a black discoidal lunule and terminal band with sinuous inner edge and an orange patch on it between veins 5 and 1. Underside of fore wing with the discoidal spot black, and sometimes a black streak below base of cell. Ab. 1. Hind wing without discoidal spot; the terminal band obsolescent except towards apex. Fore tibive with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, Texas, 2 6, 1 9, Georgia, Nebraska, Colorado. vp. 32-40 millim. *145. Schinia petulans. (Plate LXIX. fig. 7.) Anthecia petulans, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 125 (1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 281. Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dull orange. Fore wing ochreous, with the lines and bands deeper orange; basal area darker; antemedial line slightly angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then oblique; medial area shaded with orange, and with small pale discoidal spot ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; cilia ochreous. Hind wing pale orange, with some black suffusion at base; a small discoidal point; a moderately broad terminal band tinged with orange towards tornus. Underside pale orange; fore wing with black subterminal band more prominent at middle, a black discoidal spot and some black points near base ; hind wing with the inner margin suffused with black, and a black discoidal spot. Hab, U.S.A., Florida. H#vp. 15 millim. This species is un- known to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sei. 146. Schinia arcigera. (Plate LVII. fig. 4.) Anthacia arcigera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 184 (1852) ; Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. ii. p. 340, pl. 6. fig. 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 280, Anthecia spraguei, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 341, pl. vi. ff. 4, 5 (1863). Head and thorax bright rufous, sometimes tinged with crimson ; pectus and legs orange, tinged in front with pink; abdomen orange. Fore wing with the basal area rufous or dark brown sometimes tinged with crimson and bounded by the highly curved white antemedial line; the medial area grey with a pinkish tinge; the reniform very indistinct, dusky, on traces of the dark medial shade ; the postmedial line white, oblique from costa to vein 3, then slightly SCHINIA. 93 incurved, and with a deep rufous band beyond it becoming greyish towards termen on which there is a series of dark points. Hind wing orange, with slight dark discoidal spot; the terminal half black-brown; the underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged with rufous, 9. Head and thorax much darker; abdomen black suffused with grey ; fore wing much darker; hind wing wholly black. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. Canapna, 1 3; U.S.A., E. & Middle States, N. York, 4 ¢, 1 2, Kansas, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 9, New Mexico (Snow), 1 ¢. Exp. 24—28 millim. *147. Schinia sordida. (Plate LIX. fig. 12.) Schinia sordidus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 280 (1885); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 279. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale chocolate-brown ; the extreme base, a narrow medial area, and an apical spot paler and yellower, the medial area tinged with pink ; antemedial line distinct, white, crenulate ; reniform dark, rather distinctly defined ; postmedial line white, minutely waved and strongly excurved from below costa to vein 4; an indistinct sinuous yellowish subterminal line from apical patch to tornus. Hind wing black, with yellow patch on disk almost bisected by the large black discoidal spot; cilia pale. Underside of fore wing black, with narrow medial band, postmedial elliptical spot, and elongate apical spot yellow. Fore tibiz with a long claw on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Alabama, Selina. wp. 18 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type. 148. Schinia limbalis. (Plate LVII. fig. 5.) Lygranthecia limbalis, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 421; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 284. Q. Head and thorax dark brown, the thorax tinged with crimson, the antenne and pectus in front with fulvous ; abdomen black, with the terminal segment ochreous. Fore wing dark brown, slightly tinged with crimson and irrorated with grey; a subbasal whitish mark in cell; a spot on middle of costa and a triangular patch from submedian fold to inner margin. Hind wing black-brown, irrorated with grey ; the cilia white shghtly mixed with black. Fore tibia with one claw and one spine on inner side and three claws on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 9 type, ap. 20 millim. 94 NOCTUIDA. Genus EUPANYCHIS. rr ype. Eupanychis, Grote, Revised Check-List, p. 34 (1890), non deser.... spinos@. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect to well beyond frons, the 2nd joint clothed with long hair, the 3rd short; frons with small rounded prominence with curved corneous plate below it ; antennz of male ciliated ; fore tibiz short and broad, with one curved claw and one spine on inner side, and one claw and two spines on outer; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Hind wing white, with black discoidal spot and terminal Distt hl scc scion hoe aioneie'scctemacleeeee oatecl oaths elsita rele cies ite ists ectaretelsie Spilose. B. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area tinged with rufous ... mexicana. C. Hind wing pale reddish, deepening to copper-red at termen. crenilinea. 149. Eupanychis spinose. Heliothis spinose, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 182, pl. ix. f. 10 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 281. Anthecia hirtella, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 19, pl. iii. f. 3 (1866). 3. Head and thorax white mixed with rufous; tarsi banded with brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with fuscous and with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing white, irrorated and suffused with pale olive-brown ; the antemedial line white, angled outwards at median nervure, then obliquely curved and with a diffused rufous band on its inner edge; the reniform defined at Fig. 30.—Eupanychis spinose, §. 1. sides with black, and with some rufous above it on costa ; the post- medial line white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then strongly incurved, and with a rufous band between it and the indistinct whitish subterminal line which is slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved below middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white; the base and inner margin blackish ; a large, very prominent black discoidal spot, a broad terminal black band with its inner edge angled outwards at discal fold, then incurved ; a slight pale subterminal mark below vein 3; cilia white EUPANYCHIS. 95 at tips. Underside of both wings with subbasal black spots in and below cell and discoidal spots; the costal area of both wings suffused with ferruginous red. Hab. Canada; U.S.A., 1 ¢ Grote Coll., Eastern, Middle, and Central States. Hvp. 26 millim. 150. Eupanychis mexicana, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 9.) 3g. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with brown; abdomen orange. Fore wing pale ochreous, tinged with pale brown and irrorated with dark brown; a pale curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line pale, acutely angled inwards in submedian fold and excurved towards costa and inner margin ; the orbicular and reniform defined by a few dark scales, with grey-brown centres and pale annuli, the former very indistinct, round, the latter more prominent ; a pale postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 3, then incurved; the terminal area with rather stronger, dark irroration ; a pale, highly and rather irregularly dentate subterminal line; a terminal series of brown striz; cilia ochreous mixed with fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow, with diffused, obscurely dentate, subterminal and terminal reddish bands. Underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal area strongly irrorated with red ; a red point in cell, discoidal spot, and postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3; hind wing with the costal and apical areas irrorated with red; a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, Mexico, Jalisco (Schaus), 1 3 type. Eup. 36 millim. *151. Eupanychis crenilinea. (Plate LXIX. fig. 8.) Schinia crenilinea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 129 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 281. Head and thorax yellowish white, the latter with some ochreous scales; abdomen whitish. Fore wing whitish mixed with ochreous, the markings brownish ochreous; abroad dusky subbasal band bounded by the curved white antemedial line, which is somewhat denticulate at the veins and defined on inner side by some black scales; a dusky medial shade; reniform an ill-defined dark bar; postmedial line white, defined on outer side by black scales, dentate and produced to points at the veins, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; the area beyond it brownish to the subterminal line, which is strongly angled inwards at discal fold, less strongly at submedian fold; a shght terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pale, slightly tinged with reddish, deepening to coppery red at termen. Underside uniform coppery red, except the base of hind wing which is paler. Hab. U.S.A.,5. Texas. Evp. 23 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 96 NOCTUID&. Genus GROTELLA. Type Grotella, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 (1874). septempunctata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, the 2nd joint upturned and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect, naked; frons with large hollowed-out process with corneous walls, and with obliquely truncate central process hollowed out in front ; eyes smooth, not ciliated ; antennz simple, laminate in both sexes ; fore tibize with long curved claw, and two slender spines on inner side at extremity and short claw on outer side; mid tibiz strongly spined ; hind tibize with slight spine between the medial and terminal spurs; abdomen and wings smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. A. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial series of small black ispotsy(ictetecscecssectessmsnee cee seeeecs see csceaececes septempunctata. Bs Horeswinpiwhollygwhitejeesectsessnccree-e sens cee rtsecees dis, 152. Grotella septempunctata. Grotella septempunctata, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 278 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 266. Head and thorax pure white; palpi and frons black-brown ; antenne yellow; tibiz and tarsi banded with black; abdomen brown, tinged with yellowish white. Fore wing almost pure white; the costal edge black towards base; subbasal black points below costa and cell; small antemedial black spots on costa, in submedian fold, and on inner margin, the spot in the fold slightly nearer the Fig. 31.—Grotella septempunciaia, G. }. base ; small postmedial black spots on costa, discocellulars, in sub- median fold and on inner margin. Hind wing white, the apical area to the discocellulars and vein 3 tinged with fuscous brown. Underside of fore wing, except the inner area and cilia, and the costal area of hind wing fuscous brown. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type, Colorado (Smith), 1 9 , Manitou (Brock), 12. exp. 30 millim. 153. Grotella dis. (Plate LVI. fig. 10.) Grotella dis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 55 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 266. 2. Head and thorax white; antenne ochreous; pectus, legs, MELICLEPLRIA. 97 and abdomen tinged with brown. Fore wing pure white, the costal edge black towards base. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous ; the cilia pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous ; hind wing white, with curved postmedial line, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, Argus Mts., 1 ¢, N. Mexico, Hot Springs, 7000 ft., Arizona. wp. 30 millim. Genus MELICLEPTRIA. Type. iaivdlaynnrdae Velivis, EWA) Os e407) (kee) roonenos886seoncoeonebsccdo0daqcd scutosa. Canthylidia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 406 .................. ... pallida. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons, and slightly fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales : fore tibie short and broad, with long curved claw and two spines on inner side, and shorter claw or spine on outer ; mid and hind tibix spined. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced ; yeins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sner. I. (Canthylidia). Fore wing of male with glandular swelling on costa just beyond middle and elongate depressed brands below costa aad in cell. A. Fore wing with prominent claviform, orbicular, and reniform stigmata gp ate COC DOS ETICo 0g SUCo BORE Spe E acu On ceMaHcDAnos Seecenene eistella. B, Fore wing without stigmata, a, Fore wing with distinct white fascia in discal fold. a‘. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish pink ...... eodora. bi. Fore wing with the eround- -colour not pink. a, Fore wing with subterminal series of white spots... c/adota. a Bore wing without subterminal series of w hite spots. . Fore wing with white fascia in submedian inter- S|DEIED) cancer o- ooos denn bosnsacue ubanganporaeqacaoRdaHIOdOS -» mesoleuca. 2°, Fore wing without white fascia in submedian interspace. a’. Fore wing with more or less prominent dark SHEA KSTOMMUMOUVElMNStecmace sec cecceleeecieet ete elalstosiele neurias, . Fore wing without dark streaks on the veins. a3, Fore wing dark brown irrorated with fuscous ; Hin dewanawbrOwnnessscscsss ssa csewe ceseescense ec cramboides. i. Fore wing pale yellow-brown; hind wing WAST), o Sek ah is Anan tS ROO HAS PRP RH ear OE Ee osmidd. ere wing with indistinct or without fascia in diseal fold. . Fore wing without postmedial series of dark points on the veins. a2. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas suffused CCrirlati das hesneenane te han tec teo teen abc Gate On GED nee MES ammacs tonola. b2, Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not suffused with red. a, Hind wing with the ground-colour white. wu. Fore wing white, more or less irrurated with MICS OUI Soren a coURoROnonch COoo EME RAM ADE eLOCHoGAS pallida. }', Fore wing pale silky ochreous, the inner area Frag cCral ayprnaldoyXoyy At) sonqusooqossaneososoccsnqonee canusina. 63. Hind wing brown ........... idat osmapaqponoonoe MoonSeCRE moribunda. VOL. IV. H 98 NOCLUIDA, 4, Fore wing with postinedial series of dark points on the veins. j a’, Fore wing without terminal series of points ......... aleurota. b°. Fore wing with terminal series of dark points ...... aberrans. 154. Melicleptria cistella. (Plate LVII. fig. 11.) Canthylidia cistella, Swinh. A. M.N. H. (7) viii. p. 127 (1901). Q. Ochreous white; antenne, thorax, and abdomen dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing with straight diffused brownish antemedial line; claviform, orbicular, and reniform prominent, black, usually with white centres, the lst short, the 2nd elliptical or small, the last open above and below ; a pale brown postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line with diffused fuscous on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 7, interrupted at discal fold and excurved below it ; termen brownish, with series of black points. Hind wing whiter, with diffused brownish subterminal band expanding to termen at apex. Underside of fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, and_ postmedial band blackish. Hab. W. Avsrraria, Sherlock R. (Clements), 4 2. Ep. 24 millim. Type vin Mus, Oxon. 155. Melicleptria eodora. (Plate LVII. fig. 12.) Heliothis eodora, Meyry. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1902, p. 26. Canthylidia tenwistria, Turner, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. 1902, je TS) Head and thorax whitish tinged with pink; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused with ochreous. Fore wing flesh-red, suffused with purplish pink and white except the terminal area; the costal edge and inner margin white; a narrow yellowish-white fascia from middle of cell to termen, slender streaks above veins 7, 6, and 4, and traces of a streak in base of submedian fold. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with brown extending inwards to below the cell. Underside of fore wing suffused with pale brown. Hab. QuErnstanp, Brisbane (Turner), 1 ¢, 19; W. AUSTRALIA, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 ¢,2 9: N.S. Waxes, typet ¢ in Coll, Meyrick. wp. 32 millim. Type f tenwistria in Coll. Turner. 156. Melicleptria cladota. (Plate LVII. fig. 13.) Heliocheilus cladotus, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 126 (1901). Head and thorax pale yellow-brown, with some white on vertex of head and metathorax ; pectus white; legs pale brown and white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with yellow-brown. Fore wing pale yellow-brown, with white fascize on costal area, through the cell to termen, and in submedian interspace; a series of white spots MELICLEPTRIA. 99 in the interspaces of terminal area; a terminal series of dark brown points; cilia white at tips. Hind wing white ; the veins streaked with brown towards termen; a more or less developed diffused subterminal yellow-brown band; a brown line at base of cilia sometimes present. Hab. W. Avstratta, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 6, 4 9, Rae- bourne, 1 ¢. wp. 26-36 millim. Type yf in Mus. Oxon. *157. Melicleptria mesoleuca. (Plate LVII. fig. 14.) Canthylidia mesoleuca, Lower, ined. 2. Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; palpi below, pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing silky golden brown, irrorated with white; a white streak in discal fold from middle of cell to termen, a slight streak above vein 5, and a streak in submedian fold from base to termen, narrowing towards base. Hind wing white irrorated with brown; the terminal area suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. Hab, N.S. Wates, Broken Hill, type 7 Q in Coll. Lower. Eup. 28 millim. 158. Melicleptria neurias. (Plate LVII. fig. 15.) Heliothis neurias, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 26. Head and thorax yellowish brown or grey-brown; pectus and legs white and brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with yellow- brown. Fore wing pale yellow-brown or grey-brown; the veins more or less prominently streaked with dark brown; a white fascia through the cell to termen: the interspaces of terminal area some- times streaked with whitish; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, suffused with brown except on costal area or towards termen only. Hab. N. Avsrratia, Cassini I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Port Darwin, 1 9, typeT @ in Coll. Meyrick; W. Avsrratia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 3 $,62. Evp, 26-34 millim. 159. Melicleptria cramboides. (Plate LVII. fig. 16.) Leuwcania eramboides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 84 (1852). Rather dark grey-brown. Fore wing with white fascia through the cell to termen. Hind wing slightly paler; the underside whitish, with the veins and termen tinged with brown. Hab. Victoria (Raynor), 2 3,19. Exp. 34-40 millim. 160. Melicleptria osmida. (Plate LVII. fig. 17.) Heliocheilus osmidus, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 126 (1901). Head and thorax pale yellow-brown ; pectus and legs white and pale brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with pale yellow- brown. Fore wing pale yellow-brown, with a white fascia through H2 100 NOCLUID-E. the cell to termen. Hind wing pure white, slightly tinged with pale brown at apex in female. Hab. W. Avstratia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 $,1 9. Ezxp., 3 28, 2 30 millim. Type? in Mus. Oxon 161. Melicleptria ionola. (Plate LVII. fig. 18.) Adisura ionola, Swinh. A.M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax ochreous, strongly tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with dull purplish rose, leaving a fascia of the ground-colour in and beyond cell from before middle to termen and some ochreous on inner margin; a terminal series of dark points usually present: cilia ochreous. Hind wing pale ockreous, suffused with fuscous wholly or on terminal area only. Underside of fore wing ochreous suffused with fuscous, except in cell and on costal and apical areas, the or)bicular represented by a small fuscous spot, the reniform by a larger spot. Hab. W. Avsrratta, Sherlock R. (Clements),5 3,5 9. Eup. 26-39 millim. Type fin Mus. Oxon. 162. Melicleptria pallida. Canthylidia pallida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 406, pl. ix. f. 9. Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. . Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with pale grey-brown and with more or less distinct WS 6 F Fig. 32.-—Melicleptria pallida, 3. }. Race Soe SON Gos 3o traces of a white fascia from middle of cell to termen. Hind wing white; the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, less prominently towards tornus. Hab. N. Avstratia, Baudin I. (J.-J. Walker), 1 9; W. Avs- rTRALIA, Sherlock R. (Clements), 7 3,5 Q ; QueENsLAND, Brisbane (Turner), 1 3,1 9, Gayndah, 2 g, type. Hxp. 26-30 millim. i683. Melicleptria canusina. (Plate LVII. fig. 19.) anthylidia canusina, Swinh, A.M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 127 (1901). Head and thorax white mixed with grey-brown and with a slight yellowish tinge; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. MELICLEPTRIA. 101 Fore wing silky ochreous white, with more or less prominent and extensive dark brown suffusion on inner area below the cell and vein 4. Hind wing white, with a slight ochreous tinge; the veins and terminal area more or less suffused with brown. Hab. W. Avsrratis, Sherlock R. (Clements),3 ¢,1 2. Hap. 22-26 millim. Type fT in Mus. Oxon. 164. Melicleptria moribunda. (Plate LVII. fig. 20.) Leucania morithunda, Guen. Noct. i. p. 95 (1852). Leucania invaria, Wik. ix. 111 (1856). Leucania fumata, Lucas, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. (2) iv. p. 1098 (1889). Ochreous, more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous brown ; head and thorax tinged with fuscous. Hind wing suffused with fuscous towards termen. Underside of fore wing with obscure discoidal spot. Hab. QurEnstanD, Brisbane (Turner), 1 ¢,1 9 ; N.S. Wats, Sydney (Raynor), 6 6, 69, type and type invaria. Exp, 28- 30 millim. 165, Melicleptria aleurota. (Plate LVII. fig. 21.) Caithylidia aleurota, Lower, ined. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown: abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, thickly irrorated with brown; a more or less developed post- medial series of black points on the veins excurved from costa to vein +, then oblique. Hind wing white suffused with dark brown, especially towards termen; cilia white. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with brown and with dark discoidal spot; hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown. Hab. W. Ausrraia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 2 3,2 9, Derby, 1 o. Hep. 26 millim. Type 7¢ in Coll. Lower. 166. Melicleptria aberrans. (Plate LVLII, fig. 22.) Heliothis aberrans, Butl. Trans, Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 405, ¢. Head and thorax dull brown; abdomen whitish brown. Fore wing pale dull brown; slight antemedial dark points on median nervure and vein 1, with traces of a diffused oblique band beyond them; a postmedial series of small almost dentate black spots curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; traces of a rather paler streak from middle of cell to termen and of some subterminal spots ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown; the terminal area suffused with dark brown, leaving a pale subterminal mark above and below vein 3. Hab, QurEnstand, Peak Downs, 1 ¢ type. wp. 28 millim. 102 -NOCTUIDZ. Seer. II. (Melicleptria). Fore wing-of male normal. 167. Melicleptria scutosa. Noctua scutosa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. il. p. 142 (1787): Esp. Schmett. pl. 108. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. .Schmett. Eur. Noct. f. 309; Dup. Lép. Fr. vit. pl. 119. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. Heliothis nuchalis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). Head and thorax clothed with greyish, olive, and dark brown hair: pectus and legs whitish, the latter irrorated with dark brown; abdomen greyish irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing ochreous whitish, the marginal areas tinged with olive-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a blackish streak below base of yein 1; the antemedial line minutely dentate to median nervure, then angled outwards to middle of wing below vein 1; stigmata olive-brown outlined with black, claviform large elliptical, orbicular round, reniform large; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 5, inwardly oblique to vein 3, then more erect, a brown band with pale points on costa between it and the whitish subterminal line, which is dentate inwards below costa, excurved at middle and has some blackish Fig. 33.—Melicleptria scutosa, $. 3. points on its inner edge; a terminal series of black and white strie. Hind wing white, the veins streaked with brown; a large black discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line minutely waved, angled outwards at discal fold; the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge following the postmedial line and with two pale subterminal spots at middle; cilia white, with brown line at base. Underside with the ground-colour white; fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, and claviform black. Fore tibize with long claw on inner side and spine on outer. Hab. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 9, type nuchalis, Montana, Colorado ; Evrorr, Central and Southern, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls., Spain, Italy, Sweden, Bulgaria (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 @; Axuerers; Armenta; C. Asta; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 2 9 ; KE. Cuina, Wei-ha-Wei (Fletcher), 3 9, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 9: Kasumir, Scind and Goorais Valleys, Dras, Kiris (Leech), 3 oa 29; Kuru (G. Young), 2 ¢,2 9, Rawal Pindi,1 9. Hap. 30- 38 millim. TIMORA. 103 Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 109; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 166. Green ; dorsal and spiracular lines yellow, black-edged; sub- dorsal line freckled with black ; headgreen. Food-plant, Artemisia, July. Genus TIMORA. Type. Tones Vue, tise, WBPA(ANEN. Pepesoane docnccaciccosoan0cehosbebsoosse senegalensis. SO LAg a pMOOKe be Zi Sa USSU, py dO2) caesar: adeteencceseeees sinuata. Dicirilftes, Wiles), Vs Asti dltstelll Yow GIGS) nonceeccoccscdcoscéoroctidesoec sanguinolenta. I tosyeidan, Wilko), 125/75 sy alllerol yale” pagadoesneecocabacuecaneooe radiata, Jepadilannaey, Wikoront}, JeG/Zp ish MeteNhy \8 Gloe® cocnosdandoosboodedeorcoce beatriz. | Quaeaii, WINGO RE ERAS ISe, Afetsill jo i010) osapnebocodsoandcdoqocosasc lanceolata. Rhodosea, Grote, Can. Ent.-xv. p. 4 (1883) ...........:.0..2000> Julia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales; fore tibix short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibiw spined; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex somewhat produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9.from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, which is long and narrow; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, rarely stalked; 5 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Srcr. I. (Rhodosea). Fore wing of male with glandular swelling on costa beyond middle and slight elongate depressions below costa and in cell. 168. Timora julia. Phodosea julia, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 5 (1838); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p: 272. ‘ Adisura grandis, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 516; id. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Het. li. p. 490, pl. 94. f. 21. $. Head bright pink ; palpi white below; thorax pink mixed with white; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing bright pink; some yellowish white at base of inner area; a white fascia through Fig. 34.—Timora julia, 3. 3. the cell to near termen and slight streaks above veins 4 and 6; costal edge and cilia white. Hind wing pure white. Underside of fore wing white, the costal area tinged with pink, the disk suffused with fuscous above and below the white fascia. Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 ¢, New Mexico, Arizona; Mexico, Jalisco, Lake Chapala (Richardson), | g, type yrandis, Godman- Salvin Coll. wp. 34 millim. 1o4 NOCTUID®. Sxcr. II. Fore wing of male normal. A, Hind wing of male with veins 3, 4 stalked. 169. Timora dora. Masalia dora, Swinh. Trans, Ent. Soe. 1891, p. 147; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 180. ¢. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing deep ochreous-yellow, thickly irrorated with long brown scales; the costal area tinged with pink; an ill-defined yellowish spot in end of cell, with brownish suffusion round it; an oblique brown mark from apex and an indistinct curved subterminal series of brown spots on the veins. Hind wing pale ochreous. Under- side of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. iD poe fi Crt Fig. 85.—Timora dora, 3. 1 Y- Q. Fore wing with the dark irroration and markings replaced by very obscure diffused red markings. Ab. 1. Hind wing with the basal half suffused with fuscous, extending as streaks. on the veins towards termen.—Belgaum. Hab. Bombay, Khandalla (Swinhoe), 1 ¢, 1 2 type; Manpras, 3elgaum (Watson), 1 2. Ewp., d 26, 2 30 millim. B. Hind wing of male with veins 3, + from cell. a. Fore wing with oblique postmedial pink band with white points on it. a’. Hind wing suffused with pink ..................00000+ metarhoda. >, Hind wing not suffused with pink. a’, Fore wing with pink fascia in cell .................. decorata. o°. Fore wing with pink fascia below costa ............ leucosticta. 5, Fore wing with oblique postmedial pink band with series of white points on its inner side ............... albiseriata. c, Fore wing without pink postmedial band with white points on it. 1, Fore wi ith terminal series of black points a’, Kore wing with terminal series of black points. a, Fore wing with dentate postmedial line ............ sinuatu. 4°. Fore wing with curved postmedial series of points. azreola. c*, Fore wing without postmedial line or points. a®. Fore wing with black medial fascia ............... senegalensis. +°, Fore wing without black medial fascia ............ nubila. /', Fore wing without terminal series of black points. a*. Fore wing with curved postmedial series of points. a’, Fore wing not irrorated with black. 4. Fore wi ld ll ith fiery red streak a‘. Fore wing golden yellow, with fiery red streaks On the veins . Fore wing with the costal fascia broad. a, Fore wing with pink streak on median TAEIR AVI ds hic SoHAD Re BE OC A DANCE Op ne DERN oRABaRte hats alarioides. . Fore wing without pink streak on median MEM VUILG sae a cee eerenelose nas eae oats nent ua sles lanceolata. Fore wing with the costal fascia narrow ... eruentata. . Fore wing without well-defined pink fasciz on costal and inner areas. a®, Fore wing with red streaks above median nervure and on vein 6 rubristria. b°. Fore wing without red streaks. a, Fore wing with white fascia in discal fold. 19) Fore wing with the ground-colour OCHEO Easter cee csc ae ne dcceesee Gis cminasiec flavia. 41°, Fore wing with the ground-colour Chesbiutemee access ree nace reareee bivittata. c10, Fore wing with the ground-colour flesli=reclae ss seccegter aw cade aananesueears ceenser terracotta. d'°, Fore wing with the ground-colour rose- pink. Hind wing pure-white .................. transvalica, 4, Hind wing suffused with pink or fuscous. 1) Fore wing with the inner area not suffused with fuscous ...............065 beatriz. }\*, Fore wing with the inner area suf- Fused) wathitUSCOuS! seeccasccsacenaceaeee radiata. 106 NOCTUIDAE. 6°. Fore wing with yellowish fascia in discal fold. a'°, Fore wing with the inner area suffused with fuscous. a'', Fore wing with the cilia dark at tips . flavistrigata. b'., Fore wing with the cilia wholly pink . imetaphea. cll, Fore wing with the cilia white-tipped, except at apex and towards tornus... tosta. d'', Fore wing with the cilia wholly white- tipped. jst eer ecneeeee tee caer eee albicilia. 6°, Fore wing with the inner area not suffused with fuscous. a\', Fore wing bright yellow, largely suf- LSet NaN TWAT. Sorosogodoonanenaeaseumena: flavocarnea. 6'!. Fore wing ochreous, with slight traces Of pinkssutigsiony eeeeeeeea eee eee modesta. ec’. Fore wing without fascia in discal fold. a'°, Fore wing ochreous. a\', Fore wing with medial line angled TH COL Nee ond. reste ee eee ee feildi. 611, Kore wing without medial line ......... artaxoides. 1°. Fore wing white. a\!, Head orange-yellow ...............06000 Hlaviceps. 6". Head white tinged with brown ......... hololeuca. *170, Timora metarhoda. (Plate LVIII. fig. 31.) Timora metarhoda, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 201 (1903). 2. Head and thorax olive-yellow : antenne, head between their bases, tibie, and tarsi tinged with red; abdomen ochreous, slightly tinged with red. Fore wing greenish yellow ; costal edge white ; pale pink fasciz, confluent at base, on median nervure and in submedian fold to origin of vein 2, with white points on their extremities representing the antemedial line; a pink discoidal spot; an oblique pink fascia from apex to vein 1 beyond middle, excurved between veins 6 and 4 and with white points on it on veins 6 to 1; a waved pink terminal line; cilia pink. Hind wing pink, pale towards base; cilia ochreous, pinkish at base. Underside of fore wing suffused with pink except costal and terminal areas ; hind wing with slight discoidal spot and diffused subterminal pink patches. Hab. Gampta (Sir A. Moloney), type f Q in Coll. Druce. Exp. 26 millim. 171. Timora decorata. (Plate LVII. fig. 23.) Pradatia decorata, Moore, P.Z. 8. 1881, p- 965; Butl. Ill. Het. B. M. vii. p. 68, pl. 180. f. 11; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 177. Pale straw-yellow ; .a bar above frons, antennze, and the greater part of legs pink. Fore wing with a pink fascia in cell conjoined at base to a fascia in submedian interspace extending to termen ; antemedial white points on median nervure and vein 1; an oblique pink band from apex to vein 1, with a series of white points on it on veins 6 to 1; cilia pink. Hind wing rarely with faint traces of a postmedial pink band. Hab, Kasumir,Saidabad,1 ¢ type; Punsan, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1g, Manpuri,2¢,19, Allahabad,1 ¢; Catcurra,1 9; Deccan, 1 2 : Mapras, Bellary (Cardew), 2 ¢ ; Burma, 1 3. Exp. 22 wiilim. TIMORA. NO 172. Timora leucosticta. (Plate LVII. fig. 24.) Timora leucosticta, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. i. p. 256 (1902). 3. Pale ochreous; a pink patch on prothorax; legs mostly pink. Fore wing with rather irregular diffused pink fascia below costa; antemedial white points on the pink fascia on median nervure and on a pink patch on vein 1; an oblique pink band from apex to inner margin beyond middle, interrupted at discal and submedian folds and with white points on veins 6 to 1; cilia pink. Hind wing with the cilia pink at apex. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with pink. Hab. N’Gamitann (Lugard), 1 3 type. Hvp. 26 millim. *173. Timora albiseriata. (Plate LVIII. fig. 30.) Timora albiseriata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 200 (1903). Head and thorax pale ochreous, the antenne, head between their bases, tibie, and tarsi tinged with pink; abdomen brownish ochreous, Fore wing pale ochreous, the costal edge white; a pink fascia on median neryure to obliquely-placed white points on median nervure and vein 1 where it expands in a patch extending to vein 1 connected by a streak in submedian fold with the postmedial band, also confluent with a fascia in end of cell extending to the discoidal spot ; an oblique irregularly-diffused band from apex to inner margin near tornus, excurved between veins 6 and 4 and with a series of white points on its inner side on veins 6 to 1; a terminal series of pink points; cilia pink. Hind wing pale ochreous. Hab. Gampia (Sir A. Moloney), typet of, Q in Coll. Druce. Exp. 20 millim. 174. Timora sinuata. (Plate LVII. fig. 25.) Sophaga sinuata, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 363; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. u. p- 178. Head and thorax ochreous-brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow, largely suffused with red-brown: an indistinct rufous antemedial line angled outwards below cell and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; a slight discoidal lunule; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale yellow, more or less suffused with fuscous and with traces of discoidal dark points and curved postmedial line. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. Hab. Bompay (Leith), 3 ¢,1 2 type. Hvp. 34 millim. 175. Timora aureola. (Plate LVII. fig. 26.) Leucania unreoia, Wik. ix. 108 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 179. Dorika curta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 146. Head and thorax reddish brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore 108 NOCTUID. wing pale golden yellow, more or less completely suffused with tlesh-pink ; a diffused fuscous fascia on median nervure and vein 4+ to near termen; a pale fascia in discal fold from middle of cell to termen. with a blackish fascia above it from termen towards upper angle of cell; traces of a curved postmedial series of black points on the veins sometimes present ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, very slightly tinged with brown and with some black points on termen. Hab. Bousay, Poona (Swinhoe), 1 Q type curta, Mhow (Swinhoe), 5 o ; Mapras, Canara (Wise), 1 Q type, Belgaum (Watson), 1 3. Exp. 30-36 millim. *176. Timora senegalensis. Nonagria seneyalensis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 110 (1852). Pale ochreous; thorax tinged with brown in front; abdomen white. Fore wing‘irrorated sparsely with pink; a black fascia on median nervure extending to termen, towards which it is dilated, bisected throughout by a narrow white fascia with a pink fascia above it in the cell; traces of a postmedial series of black points ; a terminal serics. Hind wing white, with some minute black points on termen. Hab. Sexresat. Exp. 3 27, 2 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. 177. Timora nubila, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 27.) 2. Head and thorax pale ochreous, slightly mixed with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow, irrorated with a few red scales and with patches of brown scales; the ground-colour of costal area, and patches beyond lower angle of cell and on termen below apex, greyish; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside yellow; fore wing with the costal area ~ suffused with brown. Hab, Niepria, Akassa (Lugard), 1 2 type. Hap. 32 millim. 178. Timora sanguinolenta. (Plate LVII. fig. 28.) Dorika sanguinolenta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 863; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. rls oh Lirteh 2. Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow; the costal edge ‘whitish ; the costal area fiery red, emitting a streak on vein 6; a fiery-red fascia on median nervure, dividing beyond the cell into more or less developed streaks on yelus 2, 3, 4; a diffused streak on vein 1; a more or less developed postmedial series of black points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; cilia yellow tinged with red. Hind wing yellowish white. Underside whitish, with the costal area of both wings and median nervure of fore wing suffused with red. Hab. Bompay (Leith), 2 2 type. Hvp. 30 millim. TIMORA, 109 Subsp. iqnea, Hmpsn. Ll. Het. B. M. viii. p. 70, pl. 144. f. 21 (1891). Frons and tegule black-brown; fore wing with some diffused black on subcostal and median nervures and vein | and an oblique streak below apex. Hab. Mavras, Wynd (Cardew), 1 Q, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 6, 1 @ type, Travancore, Pirmid (Fergusson), 1 3. 179. Timora uncta. (Plate LVII. fig. 29.) Adisura uncta, Swinh. P. Z.S8. 1885, p. 449, pl. 27. f. 12; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 179. 3. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow; the inner area suffused with reddish brown ; the costal area tinged with pink: a curved postmedial series of short dark streaks on the veins; cilia pink, whitish at tips. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with brown except towards costa. Underside ochreous; fore wing suffused with fuscous except marginal areas. Hab. Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 ¢ type. Hap. 26 millim. 180. Timora irrorata. (Plate LVII. fig. 30.) Masalia irrorata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 564; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. jos URE Arsiloncha roseana, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1890, p. 220, pl. vi. f. 17. 2. Head and thorax yellowish brown (abdomen wanting). Fore wing yellowish white tinged with pink, and rather thickly irrorated with black-brown; a curved postmedial series of. black points on the veins; cilia whitish, pale at base. Hind wing white, slightly tinged with yellow. Hab. Stxumm, 1 @ type; Burma, Bhamo, 1 2 type roseana. Eep. 34-38 millim. 181. Timora bimaculata. (Plate LVII. fig. 31.) Pradatta bimaculata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 411; Butl. Ill. Het. vii. p- 67, pl. 129. f. 12; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 179. Pradatta pallescens, Hmpsu. Ul. Het. viii. p. 70, pl. 144. f. 5 (1891). Pradatta pulverulenta, Ampsn. Il. Het. viii. p. 71, pl. 144. f. 11 (1891). Pale brownish ochreous ; fore legs tinged with fuscous; anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing sparsely irrorated with large black scales and with diffused pinkish streaks on the veins; a black point at upper angle of cell; more or less prominent diffused fuscous streaks above median nervure and vein 4 and above vein 1. Hind wing ochreous white. Ab. 1. pulverulenta. Fore wing with prominent black fascia above median neryure. Hab. Axsysstnts, 1 5; Br. E. Arrica (Betton), 1¢; N.W. Himatayas, Kulu, Sultanpore (G@. Young), 1 9, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), 1 ¢, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 3 type; Bomsay, Mhow (Swinhoc), 1 2; Niterris (Hampson), 6 3, types pullescens and pulverulenta, Ewp, 24 millim. 110 NOCTUID®. 182. Timora nigrifasciata, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 32.) Head and tegule dull brown; thorax pale pinkish; abdomen ochreous white, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale purplish pink, with pale ochreous fascie below the cell in discal fold from before middle to termen, and as streaks above veins 2 to 7; a black fascia on median nervure and vein + to near termen; a black point at upper angle of cell, and a slight streak on base of vein 1. Hind wing pale straw-yellow, with slight black streak on median nervure. Under- side of fore wing largely suffused with fuscous, the costal area pink. Hab. Br. EK. Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton),4¢,4 2 type. Exp. 34 millim. 183. Timora trifasciata, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 1.) Q. Head and thorax red-brown, the latter whitish behind ; antenne and abdomen whitish. Fore wing ochreous white, the costal area and the inner area except at base flesh-pink; a black fascia on median nervure and vein 4 to near termen; a diffused black fascia above vein 1 extending to below it towards tornus : a black streak on vein 6, and three short streaks below apex towards termen; a whiter fasciain discal fold from middle of cell to termen. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous except towards base, the white extending in discal fold to beyond the cell: cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous with the costa red. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Stony R. (Crawshay), 1 2 type. xp. 32 millim. 184. Timora nigristriata, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 2. ¢. Head and thorax pale dull brown; antenne and abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale rose-pink; a black streak on median nervure extending to just beyond the cell; a broad yellowish-white fascia below the cell extending beyond the cell to vein 4; a yellowish-white streak in discal fold from middle of cell to termen, and slight streaks above veins 6 and 7. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half tinged with fuscous brown. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous. Hab. Mavras, Belgaum (Watson), 1 3d type. Hep. 30 millim, 185. Timora fissifascia, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 3.) ¢. Head and tegule brownish red; antenne whitish; thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing vinous-red; the costal area pinkish; a white streak on median nervure defined on each side by fuscous, emitting a very short streak on vein 2 and streaks nearly to termen on veins 3 and 4; a slight white streak on vein 1, with fuscous suffusion on each side of it; a streak on vein 6 and short streak on terminal part of vein 7 defined by fuscous. Hind wing yellowish-white, suffused with fuscous towards termen. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the costal area red. Hab, Br. E. Arrica, Kibauni (Crawshay),1 d type. Exp. 28 millim. TIMORA. TLL 186. Timora flavirosea, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 4.) S. Head and front part of thorax purplish pink; antenne whitish ; hind part of thorax pale yellow; pectus and legs white and pink; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing purplish pink ; the costal edge and inner margin pale yellow; a pale dull-yellow fascia from base of inner margin in submedian interspace to vein 2 below end of cell; white points in end of cell and on discocellulars ; fine white streaks on the veins of terminal area Hind wing white, very slightly tinged with yellow, especially on inner area. Under- side of fore wing fuscous, the costal and terminal areas pink, a white point on discocellulars. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 3 type; Arthi R. (Betton), 1 g. vp, 36 millim. 187. Timora disticta. (Plate LVIII. fig. 5.) Timora disticta, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 441 (1902). ¢. Head and front half of thorax bright pink; palpi, frons, and hinder half of thorax ochreous; pectus and legs whitish, the latter striped with pink above; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous; the costal area, extending to middle of cell, bright pink, leaving the costa ochreous; a diffused orange-yellow fascia below the cell from base to middle of wings; the inner margin orange- yellow; a pink fascia on vein 1 from before middle to termen, the area above it and cell slightly suffused with fuscous; white points at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; the veins beyond the cell slightly streaked with white; cilia bright pink. Hind wing white. Hab. Basuronann, Masite (Weigall), 1 ¢ type. Hep. 34 millim. 188. Timora alarioides. (Plate LVIII. fig. 6.) Leucania alarioides, But]. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 392. 3. Head pale rufous; thorax pale brown mixed with white; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing silvery white; the costal area, the median nervure, and interspace between veins 4,5,and inner area suffused with pale pink, leaving slight white streaks in the interspaces towards apex, the median nervure and vein 6 sometimes with darker streaks. Hind wing white, with slight pink or more prominent diffused fuscous streaks on the veins. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous, the costal area pink, the inner area and interspace above vein 5 white. Hab. Queenstand, Peak Downs, 1 ¢ type,Gayndah, 1 ¢. Evwp. 30 millim. 189. Timora lanceolata. Alaria lanceolata, Wik. xxxiii. 767 (1865). Adisura splendens, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 685. Adisura imitata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 301, pl. 28. f. 6 (1889). Curubasa depicta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 146, pl. 8. f. 4. Head and tegule red-brown, sometimes mixed with pink; 1 NOCTUIDA. thorax purplish pink; legs suffused with pink; abdomen white, more or less tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white, often tinged with golden yellow towards base or wholly golden yellow ; Fig. 36.—Timora lanceolata, §. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) the costal area purplish pink suffused with grey, the costal edge white ; the inner area purplish pink, often leaving more or less yellow or white on inner margin ; cilia pink at tips or wholly pink. Hind wing white, often more or less suffused with fuscous, or wholly fuscous, with the cilia pink. Underside of fore wing more or less suffused with fuscous. Hab. Cosra Rica (van Patten), 1 ¢ type dmitata, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Nigerta, Borgu, Yelwa L. (Migeod),23,19; Br. E. Arrtca, Machakos (Crawshay), 3 5, Kibauni (Crawshay), 3 3, Arthi R. (Betton), 1d, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $,12. Matuba (Betton), 3 ¢, Kakessa (Betton), 2 ¢; Masnonarann, Salisbury (Warshall), 13, 19; Narat, Malvern (Marshall), 14; C. Cotony, Table Mt.,1<¢; Bomsay, 1 ¢, Mhow (Swinhoc), 2 3, Khandalla (Swinhoe), 1 2 type depicta ; Mapras, Belgaum ( Watson), 1 2, Wynad (Cardew), 2 3, Nilgiris, 1 9, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 22-32 millim. 190. Timora cruentata. (Plate LVIII. fig. 7.) Curubasa cruentata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 567; Butl Tl. Het. vii. p. 68, pl. 180. f. 9; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 177. Curubasa marginata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 367. Head and tegulie ochreous tinged with brown; antennze whitish; thorax whitish, slightly tinged with pink: abdomen ochreous. Fore wing straw-yellow ; the costal and inner areas purplish pink, the inner area more or less strongly suffused with fuscous; cilia often pink or tinged with pink at tips. Hind wing straw-yellow, often more or less tinged with fuscous. Underside of fore wing often suffused with fuscous towards base. Hab. Punsas, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 9, Kala Pani (¥Verbury), 12, Simla (Harford), 2 ¢, Dharmsala (Hocking), 63,22, type and type marginata, Hap. 26-30 millim. 191. Timora rubristria, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 8.) g. Head and thorax yellowish brown, the latter pale behind ; palpi and legs tinged with pink; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing TIMORA. ilies whitish, with diffused yellow-brown streaks on costal area and veins ; a red streak on each side of median nervure, beyond the cell bifureating into streaks on veins 4 and 5, each bifurcating towards termen; a streak on vein 6 bifurcating towards termen. Hind wing white, the veins, costal, and inner areas tinged with yellow- brown. Underside of fore wing with the costal area tinged with red. Hab. Nicerta, Asaba (Crosse), 1 3 type. Exp. 24 millim. 192. Timora flavia, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 9.) Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; abdomen ochre- ous. Fore wing ochreous; the subcostal and median nervures and nervules streaked with pink; a white fascia in discal fold from middle of cell to near termen, with a slight fuscous streak below it on vein 5. Hind wing ochreous white. Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous streaks on the veins. Hab. Bompay, Mhow (Swinhoc), 1 $,19; Deccan, 1 5¢; Manras, Belgaum (Watson), 1¢,1 9 type, Wynad (Cardew), 1 3. Lxp. & 24, 926 millim. 193. Timora bivittata. (Plate LVIII. fig. 10.) Leucania bivittata, Wik. ix. 108 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 177. Head and thorax bright chestnut; antennee whitish; abdomen whitish. Fore wing bright chestnut; a silvery-white fascia in submedian interspace, attenuate at extremities, defined on each side by black, and with black streak on it towards termen ; a silvery- white fascia defined by black in discal fold from before middle to termen, attenuate at extremities; black-defined white streaks on terminal area on veins 2, 3, 4,6. Hind wing pure white. Under- side white, the costal area of both wings and the median nervure of fore wing suffused with rufous. Hab. Punsas, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), 1 9; Bompay, Mhow (Swinhoe); Burma, Moulmein (Clerch), 1 2 type, Up. Burma, Byingui (Bingham), 1 6. Hep. 32-386 millim, 194. Timora terracotta. (Plate LVIII. fig. 11.) Masalia terracotta, Hmpsn, Ul. Het. B. M. viit. p. 71, pl. 144. f. 221891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 178. +e Head and thorax dull brown, the metathorax pinkish; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing deep flesh-red; a yellowish streak in basal half of submedian fold; a white fascia in discal fold from middle of cell to termen, defined above and below by fuscous streaks ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with white. Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous except towards base, and in female slightly with pink. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the marginal areas pinkish. Hab. Nuerrts (Hampson), 1 5,29 type; Travancorn, Pirmid (Fergusson), 1 3. Hep. 30 millim. VOL. IV. I 114 NOCTUID®. *195, Timora transvalica. (Plate LVIII. tig. 12.) Timora transvalica, Dist. Entom. 1902, p. 212. 3. Head brownish tinged with pink; thorax pink, the tegule brownish at base ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing rose-pink ; the veins streaked with brownish; a white fascia in submedian fold from base to near termen, pointed at extremities; a similar fascia from middle of cell to termen; fine white streaks in inter- spaces of terminal area. Hind wing white. Hab. Transvast, Johannesburg, type T g in Coll. Distant. Exp. 32 millim. 196. Timora beatrix. (Plate LVIIT. fig. 13.) Pradatta beatrix, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 865; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 442, pl. 41. f. 5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 178. Masalia rosacea, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. viii. p. 71, pl. 144. f. 23 (1891). Head and tegule brownish; antenne ochreous white; thorax pinkish ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pink ; a yellowish- white streak in submedian interspace to beyond middle, and another in discal fold from before middle to termen; the veins and inter- spaces of terminal area with fine white streaks. Hind wing white tinged with pink, especially towards termen. Ab. 1. rosacea. Abdomen and hind wing suffused with fuscous; the underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except marginal areas. Hab. N.W. Hiwatayas, Dharmsila (Hocking), 4 $,2 2 type, Abbottabad (Yerbury), 1 ¢ ; Bombay, Canara (Ward), 1 3; CupDa- paw (Campbell), 1 3; Nizerris (Hampson), 7 3, type rosacea. Exp, 28-32 millim. 197. Timora radiata. (Plate LVIII. fig. 14.) Masalia radiata, Moore, P.Z.8. 1881, p. 364; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 178. 3. Head and thorax pale brownish tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dull pink, the inner half suffused with brown ; the costal edge whitish ; a white fascia through the cell to termen, attenuate at extremities ; a white fascia in basal half of submedian fold ; the veins of terminal area streaked with white ; cilia whitish and pink. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia mixed with white. Underside of fore wing with the ground-colour fuscous. Hab. Punsas, Manpuri, 1 ¢ type. wp. 24 millim. 198. Timora flavistrigata, n.sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 15.) 3g. Head brownish; antenne white; thorax white mixed with pink ; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing flesh-red, suffused with pink at base, and with fuscous on inner area or on all except costal and terminal areas ; the costal edge yellowish ; a pale yellow fascia TIMORA. 115 from middle of cell to termen and slight streaks above veins 6, 7. Hind wing pale yellow. Hab, Br. E, Arrica, Machakos (Crawshay), 2 3, Kikuyu, Nairobi Plains (Crawshay), 1 3 type. Exp. 26-30 millim. 199. Timora metaphza, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 16.) @. Head and thorax dull brown, the last tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing purplish pink ; the inner area suffused with fuscous; traces of a pale fascia in discal fold from middle of cell to near termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, the termen pinkish; the cilia pink at base, whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous except marginal areas, which are ochreous tinged with pink. Hab. Brxoocuistan, 1 ¢ ; N.W. Himatayas, Mandi (G. Young), 1 2 type. vp. 28-30 millim. 200. Timora tosta. (Plate LVIII. fig. 17.) Masalia tosta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 411; Butl. Ill. Het. B. M. vu. p. 67, pl. 130. f. 7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 178. Head and thorax pale yellow-brown, the metathorax and legs tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute; pink thickly irrorated with darker red; the costal edge pale; traces of a pale fascia below base of cell; a pale fascia in discal fold from middle of cell to towards termen, narrowing to a point at extremities; a terminal series of slight dark points; cilia white-tipped, except at apex and towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish white, the median nervules and termen in female slightly suffused with pink. Underside of both wings pale ochreous, the costa and termen tinged with red. Hab. N.W. Hrwatayvas, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 4+ 3, Dharmsiala (Hocking), 1 Q type. Eup. 34 millim. 291. Timora albicilia, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 18.) 3. Head and thorax dull brown, the latter tinged with pink ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area, except costal edge, median nervure and nervules and vein 1 with diffused pink streaks ; the inner margin suffused with fuscous; the terminal area suffused with pink; cilia pink at base, white at tips. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with fuscous, the cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the marginal areas ochreous. Hab, Stxutu (Dudgeon), 13 type. Hep. 26 millim. 202. Timora flavocarnea, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 19.) 2. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; abdomen ochreous, Fore wing golden yellow ; the costal edge whitish ; the costal area and vein 1 with broad pale pink and whitish fascia, the median I 2 ° 116 NOCLUID®. nervure and nervules streaked with pale pink and white; cilia tinged with pink. Hind wing yellowish white, with some fuscous suffusion beyond and below end of cell. Underside yellowish white. Fore wing suffused with fuscous except marginal areas. Hab, Apysstnta, 1 2 type. Hwp. 34 millim. 203. Timora modesta. (Plate LVIII. fig. 20.) Pradatta modcesta, Mcore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 366; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ile jos LUA); Curubasa calainaria, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 567. Q. Pale brownish ochreous. Fore wing with slightly paler fascize in discal and submedian folds. Hind wing paler. ¢. Head and tegule browner ; legs tinged with fuscous. Fore Wing sometimes with slight pink tinge on costal and inner areas. Hab. Puxsaz, Manpuri, 1 2 type, Jubbulpore, 2 ¢ ; Bomaay, 1 3, type calamaria. Exp, 24-30 millim. *904. Timora feildi. Heliothis feildi, Ersch. Lep. Turk. p. 49, pl. 8. f. 45 (1874); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 3d. Head and thorax ochreous white slightly tinged with olive- green; abdomen ochreous. ore wing pale ochreous; the basal area very slightly tinged with olive; a medial olive line diffused on outer side oblique from costa to near lower angle of cell, where it is sharply angled outward, then strongly incurved ; traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; cilia with fuscous line through them, the tips rufous. Hind wing pale ochreous: the basal area tinged with fuscous; a fuscous dis- coidal lunule; the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to tornus. Underside ochreous. Fore wing with fuscous discoidal spot and traces of a subterminal band. Hab. W. Turkestan, Askhabad in Coll. Elwes, Samarkand, Bok- hara. wp. 38 millim. 205. Timora artaxoides. (Plate LVIII. fig. 21.) Pradatta artaxoides, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 366; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. Ty feb LUG/Sh Bright ochreous or pale brownish ochreous. Hind wing tinged with fuscous wholly or towards termen only, the cilia bright ochreous. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except marginal areas, Hab. N.W. Huinwatayas, Kashmir, 1 ¢, Kulu, Sultanpore (G. Young), 93,22 type, Dalhousie (Harford), 19. vp, 30 millim. 206. Timora flaviceps, n. sp. (Plate LVIII. fig. 22.) Glossy white ; head orange-yellow ; tibia and tarsi orange-yellow, the latter ringed with fuscous ; abdomen with the anal tuft tinged TIMORA.—-HEBDOMOCHONDRA. a7 with ochreous. Fore wing with the cilia at apex and tornus orange. Hind wing with the costal edge towards apex pale orange. Underside of fore wing with the costa orange. Hab. Nigurta, Borgu, Yelwa 1. (Migeod), 1 3 type. Hwp. 24 millim. 207. Timora hololeuca, n. sp. (Plate LVILII. tig. 23.) ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, slightly tinged with fuscous brown. Wings silvery white, the costa of fore wing slightly tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous to near termen below costa only or to the median nervure or inner margin. Hab. Asysstnta, 1 ¢ ; Mapras, Belgaum (JVatson), 2 ¢ type. Exp. 24 millim. Genus HEBDOMOCHONDRA. Type Hebdomochoudra, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 321 .............4. syrticold. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the frons and slightly fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large. rounded ; antennx of male ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibize short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and one spine on outer; mid and hind tibi spined. Fore wing rather long and narrow; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from the areole, which is formed by 9 and 10 anastomosing with 7,8; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4from angle of cell ; 5 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 208. Hebdomochondra syrticola. Hebdomochondra syrticola, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 321; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. g. Head and thorax pale ochreous; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing uniform pale ochreous. Hind wing pure white. LAS x : N ASD ~y ' \ Fig. 37.—Hebdomochondra syrticola, 3. }- Hab. S.E. Russra, 16, Zeller Coll.; W. Turxzsran, Turcomania ; BE. Turkesran, Thian Shan Mts. Aap. 28 millim. 118 NOCTUID®. Genus COPABLEPHARON. Type. Copablepharon, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878) BE iocicielcesislethonteleetts absida. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, fringed with hair in front ; frons with somewhat obliquely rounded prominence ; antennz of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair; tibiz strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced and termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing ochreous, more or less tinged with brownish ...... absida. B. Fore wing clear yellow-buff. a. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous... grandis. b, HinGiswan ge PUSCOUS ssa cmcer ccteer see ee cc eerenee ees acerca eee longipennis. Cj Roreywing pure witless... qscseeep teem nasen erence ere ene toner alha. 209. Copablepharon absida. Ablepharon absidum, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sei. ii. p. 275 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. Head and thorax ochreous yellow; abdomen ochreous white, tinged with yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow, more or less slightly tinged with brown, and the veins streaked with pale brown ; pale streaks usually visible in cell and discal fold from before middle to termen and in submedian fold; a black point sometimes present at upper angle of cell anda slight streak at lower angle; the postmedial line sometimes present as an oblique sinuous Fig. 88.—Copablepharon-absida, ¢. 3 T° interrupted line with black points on the veins, or reduced to points only, or absent. Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous brown except towards base, and with black postmedial points on median nervules. Underside white; fore wing with the cell clouded with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, 2 2 type, Colorado, Montana, California, Webber L. (Osten Sacken), 1 9. Exp. 42 millim. 210, Copablepharon grandis. (Plate LVIII. fig. 24.) “Edophron grandis, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 129 (1875). Copablepharon subflavidens, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 169 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. Head and thorax pale clear sulphur-yellow; pectus, legs, and -_ COPABLEPHARON.—ADISURA. 119 abdomen white. Fore wing pale, clear, sulphur-yellow, sometimes with oblique postmedial series of black points on the veins. Hind wing white, the terminal area very slightly tinged with ochreous ; postmedial black points on median nervules. Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Colorado (Bruce, Cockerell),1 3,19. Exp., & 44, 2 48 millim. *211. Copablepharon longipennis. (Plate LXIX. fig. 9.) Copablepharon longipenne, Grote, Can, Ent. xiv. p. 169 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. Head and thorax yellow; palpi and pectus whitish. Fore wing clear pale buff-yellow ; the subterminal line represented by a series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous; the cilia whitish. Underside whitish slightly tinged with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Montana. Evp. 44 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 212. Copablepharon alba. (Plate LVIII. fig. 25.) Arsilonche albwm, Harv. Can, Ent. viii. p. 85 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 268. 3. Uniform pure white. Hab, U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado (Bruce), 1 ¢, Montana. Exp. 46 millim. Genus ADISURA. Type. Adisura, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 867 ...... ROR aon GOLROHOCECE atcinsont. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique to just beyond frons and moderately scaled below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded; antennx of male ciliated; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales; fore tibiee without spines; mid and hind tibiz with a few spines; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with the apex some- what produced and acute; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middie of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous. a. Fore wing with the cilia wholly pink ...................s0.0000s dulcis. b, Fore wing with the cilia white-tipped. a', Fore wing largely suffused with grey and irrorated with RUS COUS aemestecet inert seeraisel-eisieisteel pele seis rinsicce saemeleneteseres atcinsont. b‘. Fore wing not suffused with grey or irrorated with fuscous. a, Kore wing with the costal and inner areas more or less prominently suffused with pink, the cilia pink at base. marginalis. b*, Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not tinged with pink, the cilia ochreous at base ............6.0065 straminea. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour green ...............seeee eee @erugo. 213. Adisura dulcis. (Plate LVIIL. fig. 26.) Adisura dulcis, Moore, P, Z. 8. 1881, p. 368; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. ja Wee 2. Head and thorax dark red-brown ; pectus and legs ochreous 120 NOCTUID®. mixed with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow ; the costal edge white ; broad deep pink fascise on costal and inner areas ; the base of inner margin fuscous; termen and cilia pink, Hind wing ochreous, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with ochreous streaks just beyond and below end of cell, the terminal area yellow, pink at costa. Hab. Stxum; Assam, Khisis, 1 2 ; Qurrenstanp, Townsville (Dodd), 13,192. Hap. 32 millim. 214. Adisura atcinsoni. Adisura atkinsoni, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1681, p. 368, pl. 37. f.6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 173. Head grey; thorax pale brown ; pectus and legs whitish, the tibiz and tarsi rufous above: abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish, the inner and terminal areas except at apex suffused with brown, the costal area and termen with pink ; Fig. 59.—Adisura atcinsoni, SG. 1. (From Moths Ind, vol. ii.) an oblique antemedial series of three black points on the veins and a postmedial series excurved from costa to vein 4. then oblique ; traces of dusky orbicular and reniform stigmata. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with more or less black suffusion on terminal area narrowing from inner margin to apex. Hab, N. Curna, Shanghai, 1 ¢ ; C. Carna, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 26; W. Curina, Ship-y-shan, 1 ¢ ; N.W. Hiatayas, Simla (Harford), 1 3, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 Q ; Suxuim (Dudgeon), 1 3. Ep. 30-34 millim. Subsp. 1. lewcanioides, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 368. Fore wing without pink suffusion on costal area and termen, the latter yellowish. Hab. Bx. E, Arrica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 2 ; Kurcn, 5 3,8 9 type; Bomsay, Mhow, 1 ¢ ; Manras, Gooty (Campbell), 1 2, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 3,3 9. Subsp. 2. padlida, Moore, P.Z. 8. 1881, p. 369; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 52, pl. 150. £. 8 Paler and greyer. — : Hab, Cryton, 2 3 type. ADISURA. PAL 215. Adisura marginalis. (Plate LVIII. fig. 27.) Anthophila imarginalis, Wik. xii. 830 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. SAIC Heliothis delicia, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 108. f. 40 (1874). Adisura similis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 369. Ochreous; sides of palpi and frons, neck at sides, and fore and mid legs above rufous. Fore wing with the costal edge white ; pale pink suffusion on costal and inner areas; an indistinct post- medial series of dark points curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, sometimes obsolete; cilia pink, white at tips. Hind wing pale ochreous, the terminal area usually tinged with fuscous. Hab. Puysas, Sultanpur(G. Young), 1 2 ,Cambellpur ( Verbury), 1 9, Manpuri, 1 2 ; Benear, Sikhim, 6 ¢, 1 Q type, Calcutta (Grote), 5 3,3 2 type similis; Mapras, Cuddapah (Campbell), 1 3 ; Stam; Amporna, wp. 24-30 millim. 216. Adisura straminea. (Plate LVIII. fig. 28.) Adisura straminea, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 258 (1902). Pale straw-yellow ; sides of palpi and frons, the neck behind the eyes, and upperside of fore and mid legs red-brown. Fore wing with the costal edge white; somewhat paler streaks in and beyond cell and below the cell and vein 3; indistinct dark points in and bevond upper angle of cell and a postmedial series curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique to submedian fold. Hind wing whitish, suffused with straw-colour towards termen. 5 Hab, N’Gaminann (Lugard), 1 3 type; Bombay, Deesa (Nurse), 192. Hap, 24 millim. 217. Adisura zrugo. (Plate LVIII. fig. 29.) Thalpochares erugo, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 108. f. 45 (1874). Head, tegule, and outer side of patagia apple-green ; palpi, frons, and antennz brownish ochreous ; upperside of patagia and thorax purplish ; pectus whitish; legs ochreous mixed with brown ; abdo- men orange, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing apple-green ; the costa ochreous irrorated with black and with three white points towards apex; a black discoidal point; a subterminal series of white points; cilia ochreous and black. Hind wing orange, with terminal blackish band obsolescent and on apical area only in male, more prominent and extending to vein 1 in female. Underside of fore wing orange, with more or less developed diffused subterminal black band. Hab. MasvHonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 3,12; Basuro.ann, Masite, 1 ¢,1 9, Maseru, 1 9 (Crawshay); C. Corony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 ¢, 1 2, Murraysburg (Zrimen). Eup. 24- 26 millim. 2, NOCTUIDE. Genus ERYTHROPHAA. Type Eraihrophuia, Staud. Lris, iv. p:.d16 (USSU) ce eeuasec. = 4.-04:5eceseaes eudoxia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with hair below ; frons smooth, rounded ; antenne of male ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair; fore tibise with long curved claw on inner side and six claws on outer diminishing in length towards base. Fore wing with the apex pro- duced and acute; veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 218. Erythrophea eudoxia. Evythrophaia eudoxia, Staud. Ivis, iv. p. 316, pl. 4. f. 9 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224. 3d. Pale rather dull fiesh-pink, finely irrorated with whitish ; antennx whitish; pectus and abdomen whitish. Fore wing with Fig. 40.—Lrythrophea eudowia, 8. }. pale straight oblique antemedial line; the pale postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved. Underside whitish, tinged with pink and irrorated with dark red, both wings with traces of a diffused dark medial line. Hab, Kasucar, Kungess, 1 ¢. Evp. 34 millim. Genus ACTINOTIA. Type. rekeyioddeby lation, Wei, je Paes (ISPD) pascosasdsancnesoosnadocsssdneossone polyodon. Chloantha, Guen. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 509 (1889) ......0..... hyperict. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hairy in front, ord short, porrect, hairy below ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenne of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tibix fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiz spined ; abdomen with dorsal crests and rough hair towards base. Fore wing rather short and broad; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. ACTINOTIA, 123 A. Hind wing with large black discoidal lunule ..................++- radiosa. B. hes wing without black discoidal lunule. . Fore wing reddish brown, with distinct white terminal S- ” MiDETHS coo bScbi ie Nene eE Ee RHE eB Gae ouocnesece ac dcoSnBdemte ate senie polyodon. b. Fore wing grey, without distinct terminal S-mark. a’. Fore wing with the orbicular not connected with the PEWMUO GMA ys ac scens aekeset sae waka Bene ee aeceee ee cies esas hyperict. 6', Fore wing with the orbicular connected inferiorly with the reniform byraicurvyed| mar lons.cs-eeeetee reece seeee ene conjuncta. 219. Actinotia radiosa. Noctua radiosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 195. f. 3 (1786); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 234, pl. 115. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. Noctua lyncea, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 484 (1827). Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with grey and black, some- times nearly ail black ; pectus and legs clothed with olive-white hair, the latter mixed with biack ; abdomen black with white seg- mental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale olive- brown, the medial area suffused with red-brown, sometimes largely suffused with black ; some subbasal white streaks from cell to inner margin; an indistinct antemedial line strongly angled outwards below cell and above inner margin; orbicular obsolete ; reniform narrow, with rufous or blackish centre with white line on it and white annulus ; postmedial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 3; See line whitish, diffused towards termen as. dentate marks on each side of veins, between veins 2 and 5 forming a distinct -mark ; a series of small dentate black spots just before termen and a fine terminal line; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing black, the basal and inner areas clothed with grey hair; a white patch beyond the cell more or less completely defining the large black discoidal lunule and crossed by the black veins ; cilia white. Underside whitish; both wings with black discoidal spot, fascia below the cell and postmedial band emitting dentate marks towards termen on veins 3, + of fore wing and on hind wing diffused over terminal area on tornal half or wholly. Hab. France, Central and Southern; Grruany ; Huneary, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Spain; Itaty; Burearta (Mrs. Nicholl), 13, 1 9 ; Russra, Urals; Arnwenta; Asta Minor, Pontus. Eup. 28- 32 millim. 220. Actinotia polyodon. Phalena polyodon, Clerck, Icon, pl. 2. f. 2 (1759); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Noctua perspic iWaris, Linn. Faun. Sueec. p. 817 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 184. f.3; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 249; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 149; pl. 110. f. 2 Head and thorax red-brown; frons and vertex of head banded with grey ; tegule grey, with two brown lines; patagia and thorax striped with grey: pectus grey at sides; legs streaked with grey 124 NOCTUID®. above ; abdomen red-brown, paler subdorsally towards base. Fore wing red-brown, tinged with purplish pink below costa and on vein 3 towards termen ; a white fascia on median nervure, on basal half with a blackish streak below it; a whitish streak on base of vein 1, with an oblique brown streak below its extremity: the sub- basal and antemedial lines represented by oblique brown striz from costa; the orbicular obsolete ; the reniform narrow, with red-brown centre with white line on it and white annulus; the postmedial line represented by black points on the veins bent outwards below costa, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex: the subterminal line represented by an oblique fascia from apex to vein 5 emitting dentate marks to termen on each side of Fig. 41.—Actinotia polyodon, CG. veins 6, 7, then between veins 5 and 2 by a &mark ; some dentate black marks before termen and a fine terminal white line ; cilia with a dark brown line through them. Hind wing whitish, the inner and terminal areas suffused with brown; the veins brown ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing with the apical area and termen ferruginous, with dentate white marks on each side of the veins ; hind wing with discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line, the costal area ferruginous. Hab. Brirarn ; Franczu; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Swrrzertsnp, Frey Coll.; Irary; Scanprnavia; Russra, Urals; Armenra; W. Srperta, Altai; E, Turcestan ; Japan, Hakodate (Leech), 13,19. Eep. 38-40 millim, Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 125; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 39, pl. 189. f. 2. Reddish brown with dark dots; dorsal line narrow, yellow; a subdorsal series of oblique brown marks; spiracular line yellow, -dark-edged ; head brown. Food-plant, Hypericum. 7, 8. 221. Actinotia hyperici. Noctua hyperici, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 250; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 194, pl. 112. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Bur. Schmett. ii. p. 289, f. 334; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown; tegule with black medial line ; patagia edged with black above; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey ; ACTINOITIA. 125 a yellowish-white streak below the cell, with a black streak below it to middle of wing; a subbasal oblique black streak above inner margin; subbasal line indistinct, angled inwards on subcostal nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, angled inwards in cell and outwards below cell and above inner margin; claviform represented by a short black streak; orbicular and reniform small, with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, some black between them in cell; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4+, then oblique, and angled inwards in submedian fold ; the subterminal line arising from apex, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds, defined by brown suffusion on its outer edges and crossed by short black streaks in the interspaces ; cilia brown, intersected with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base; cilia grey, with a brown line through them; the underside grey, irrorated with brown; a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab, France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey Coll.; Spain; Iraty; Scanprnavia (once); Batcan Srares; ARMENIA ; Asta Minor; Syria, Leech Coll.,1 ¢ ; Mesoporamra. Hap. 30-34 millim. Larva. Boisd. Chen. pl. 22. f. 5. ted-brown, dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish, defined by dark brown; a broad lateral yellowish band with the black stigmata on its upper edge. Food-plant, Hypericum perforatum. 6. - *222. Actinotia conjuncta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 22. Chloantha ? conjuncta, Ping. Tris, xii, p. 294, pl. 9. f. 15 (1899). Grey. Head and thorax clothed with rather woolly hair. Fore wing irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a striga from costa; a black streak below the cell from base to the blackish antemedial line, which is oblique, excurved below costa and angled outwards below cell and above inner margin; orbicular narrow, elliptical, oblique, defined by black; renitorm narrow, whitish, its lower part connected with orbicular by a curved white mark defined by black below ; traces of a medial shade ; postmedial line indistinet, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4 and 3, and ending in an irregular white patch above tornus, the area beyond it darker, commencing obliquely below apex and leaving the costa grey, and with a series of dark streaks in the interspaces ; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; whitish patches on termen at middle ae tornus ; cilia whitish. Hab, Tisur, Kuku Noor, type tf ¢, Q in Coll. Piingelev. 126 NOCTUID.%. Genus- BUCIARA. Type Buciara, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 36 (1869) ...............0000+: bipartita. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the Ist and 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 5rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennz of male bipectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part simple; prothorax with spreading crest, metathorax with large crest; hind tibize with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd and 3rd segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 1i from cell; the inner margin with slight scale-teeth near base and towards tornus, the termen crenulate and slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the termen crenulate and excised at discal fold. 223. Buciara bipartita. Buciara bipartita, Wik. Char. Undeser. Het. p. 36 (1869). Actinotia acmophora, Meyr. Trans, Ent. Soe. 1897, p. 370. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish-brown and black ; palpi and frons with blackish patches ; black streaks across tegule ; patagia at extremities and metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, the crests black. Fore wing grey, irrorated with fuscous and suffused in parts with reddish brown; Fig. 42.—Buciara bipartita, 8. +. the subbasal line represented by a double oblique striga from costa ; the antemedial line double, strongly angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular very narrow, oblique, with brown centre and grey annulus defined by black; renitorm with indistinct grey annulus defined by black on inner side ; postmedial line double at costa, then indistinct, angled outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, somewhat dentate at median nervules, angled inwards to antemedial line in submedian fold, then prominent, double, angled outwards above vein | and filled in and defined on outer side by whitish ; an oblique diffused dark bar from apex ; the subterminal line represented by black streaks in the interspaces, longest and placed on a whitish patch at: middle; an oblique dark fascia with dentate black marks on it from termen at vein 3 to angle of post- medial line above vein 1 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia dark brown with grey line at base. Hind wing white, the terminal half fuscous; cilia white intersected with brown. The OXYTRIPIA,. 127 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown; a discoidal spot. @. Hind wing with the basal area suffused with brown. Hab, N. Queenstanp, 19 ; ? Vicrorta, type TS acmophora in Coll. Meyrick; ? Hab. 1 ¢ type. Exp. 34 millim. Genus OXYTRIPIA. ita Oxytripia, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 98 (1871), non deser. ......... orbiculosa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, fringed with long hair below, and hardly reaching beyond the frons, which is smooth, rounded; eyes small, reniform ; antenns of male bipectinate with short branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with scales, prothorax with slight spreading crest, the meta- thorax with large crest ; tibix fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibix spined ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, + from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 224. Oxytripia orbiculosa. Noctua orbiculosa, Esp. Schmett. Suppl. iv. p. 93, ili. pl. 93. f. 8 (1786) ; Herr.-Schiaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. pp. 294, 351, pl. 15. ff. 63, G4; Friv. Jell. pl. v. f. 8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. Head and thorax fuscous brown, with a few black scales; palpi fringed with white below, tegule white in front, the vertex of thorax sometimes pinkish ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibie with black bands; abdomen fuscous black, with white seg- mental bands, the lateral and anal tufts pale rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing dark olive-brown, irrorated with black and tinged with purple-grey ; an excurved subbasal black line from costa to vein 1, defined by white on outer side and with slight pinkish marks beyond it in and below cell and above inner margin ; Fig. 43.—Owytripia orbiculosa, G. }. the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved and defined by white on outer side; claviform small, defined by black; orbicular round, deep blue-grey with black-centred whitish annulus and defined by black; reniform large, white, rounded, its lower extremity rather produced, some blue-grey and a whitish lunule defined by black above, a black spot on its inner side and some ochreous and black on outer; a waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, defined by grey on outer side, 128 NOCLUID. bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4+, then incurved; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at veins 7 and 6 and dentate tou termen at veins 4, 3, 2, with some dentate black marks on its inner side from costa to vein 4, a white patch beyond it at apex, and sometimes some diffused ochreous white towards tornus ; a terminal series of black points; cilia white, with some brown at base. Hind wing white with slight discoidal lunule, some black suffusion along median nervure and inner margin ; a broad terminal black band occupying one-third of wing, and terminal crenulate line slightly detined by white; cilia white. Underside of fore wing mostly white except before the subterminal line; hind wing with diftused antemedial black line from costa to cell, a waved postmedial curved line, a white patch at apex, and more white on termen. Hab. Houneary, Ofen, 2 g¢, Frey & Zeller Colls., 35,3 9, Leech Coll.; W. Turxesran, Saisan; E. Tourxesran,,Thian Shan. Exp. 40-42 millim. Genus ISOCHLORA. Type. Tsochlora, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 39 ......---.s.1e-eceeeeeeneee viridis. Proboseis fully developed; palpi short, oblique, fringed with long hair in front; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennz of male bipectinate, with moderate branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with hair only, fore tibia fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiee spimed ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair towards base and laterally fringed with hair. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced ; veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sucr. 1. Antenne of female bipectinate with short branches. A, Hind wing fuscous, with the terminal area green ............ MALIN. BapEindswing palesereenieye-e.eeecesse see eda tte eee sheen eee eee chloroptera, 225. Isochlora maxima. Isochlora viridis, var. maxima, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 24; Alph. Rom. Mém. y. p. 161, pl. 8. f. 9; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. Head and thorax bright moss-green; palpi pale brown; antenne fulvous ; legs white and green, the fore legs brown on inner side ; abdomen white, tinged with green. Fore wing bright green; the costal edge white. Hind wing fuscous, the terminal area pale green, with rather irregular inner edge. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the margins ; hind wing pale green, with some fuscous suffusion on inner area. Hab. K. Turxesran, Kuldja, 2 ¢, Moneotts. Hvp. 46-50 millim. 226. Isochlora chloroptera. (Plate LIX. fig. 13.) Nonagria chloroptera, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 285 (1894). Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi yellow-brown and white ; antenne pale fulvous ; tibize and tarsi white, of fore legs brown on inner side; abdomen pale green, white at base and extremity. ISOCHLORA. 129 Fore wing emerald-green, the costal edge and cilia at tips white. Hind wing white, tinged with green. Hab. Kasumtir, Deosai plains 12,000 ft. (Leech), 1 3, 1 2, type. Exp., 6 50, 9 54 millim. srct. IT, Antenne of female serrate. A. Fore wing green. a. Fore’ wing with dark postmedial line and black discoidal MMU pe See sists nc hitd/eacnsie dace aaviesxa)d-buiewaedsl dente eaneetectess ease herbacea. 6. Fore wing without dark postmedial line or black discoidal LEAL cee c tn pR eR SeCER EROS CR SRO ATE eceeeRanar era

s) Horeiwineychestnutredias.sssteecceee eee eeeer ee eeeee eee anes mimallonis. POROSAGROTIS. 145 *254. Porosagrotis longidens. (Plate LIX. fig. 26.) Feltia longidens, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 217 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 81. 2. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; tegulie with fine dark medial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; the veins with dark streaks; the costa, submedian fold, cell, discal area, and a streak above vein 2 dark brown; a blackish streak in submedian fold with the elongate dark-defined claviform on it; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former oblique, oblong, open above and with its inner edge produced as a black streak in cell towards base ; the veins of terminal area defined by dentate ochreous marks extending to termen, leaving wedge-shaped blackish marks between them, with a series of ochreous points on them representing the subterminal line, two short subterminal black streaks before apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing pure white, with slight terminal series of dark strie; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with ochreous. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Turkey Creek in Coll. J. B. Smith, New Mexico, Las Vegas. Hwp, 36 millim. 255. Porosagrotis vetusta. Mythimna vetusta, W1k. ix. 78 (1856); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 85. Agrotis imurenula, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 552, pl. vii. f, 48 (1868); Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iti. p. 73, pl. 3. f. 3. Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales pencilled with dark ig. 55.—Porosayrolis vetusia, 3. 4. brown; palpi black at sides except at taps; abdomen white, irrorated with brown and dorsally tinged with ochreous, Fore wing lilacine grey, irrorated with dark brown; the subbasal line VOL, Iv. L 146 NOCTUID®. obsolete ; the antemedial line indistinct or obsolete except at costa, double, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold, and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform almost obsolete; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former with blackish centre, the latter with some blackish in lower part ; the postmedial line strongly dentate with white points at end of teeth, bent outwards below costa and incurved in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and termen slightly tinged with brown. Hab. Canava, Nova Scotia (fedman), 1 Q type; U.S.A., Massachusetts, N. York, 1 ¢, 2 9, Grote and Zeller Colls., Georgia, Coiorado (Bruce), 1 ¢. - Exp. 40-46 millim. 256. Porosagrotis catenula. (Plate LIX. fig. 27.) Agrotis catenula, Grote, N. Aum. Ent. i. p. 44 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 85. Head and thorax white, the scales tipped with pale yellow- brown ; antennz blackish ; tibix banded with fuscous; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white, with a slight ochreous tinge and irrorated with dark brown; the subbasal line represented by blackish striz on costa and below cell, or obsolete ; the antemedial line represented by black points ou costa, in submedian fold, and on inner margin, or the two latter obsolete ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented by a black point in cell, the reniform by a fuscous discoidal lunule or spot at lower angle of cell; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, and oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal series of black points and a slight diffused fuscous mark below apex. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown. Hab, U.S.A., Montana, Colorado (Snow), 1 ¢ type, (Bruce), 1 3, California (Walsingham), 3 3, 7 9, New Mexico. Hp. 36- 44 millim. *257. Porosagrotis texana. (Plate LXI. fig. 2.) Agrotis texanus, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 11. p. 273, pl. vi. f. 2 (1863) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 86. Agrotis obesula, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 456 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 895. 3. Rather dark yellowish grey, irrorated and striated with fuscous. Fore wing with the lines distinct, interrupted, punctiform ; subbasal line double ; antemedial line erect, excurved in interspaces, double at costa; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform ill-defined, fuscous, the former small, round; postmedial line double at costa, then crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line fuscous, punctiform, even, with a dark patch before it on costa; terminal area more thickly irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing white; the underside with lod POROSAGROTIS. 147 dark irroration and postmedial line almost obsolete except on costal area, Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Texas. wp. 38 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type obesula in U.S. Nat. Mus. 258. Porosagrotis satiens. (Plate LIX. fig. 28.) Agrotis satiens, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 45 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 85. 3. Head and thorax grey-brown slightly tinged with fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing pale brown, irrorated with black; the subbasal line re- presented by double black strive from costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, waved and angled outwards above inner margin ; clayiform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with their centres defined by blackish, the former elliptical, rather pointed at extremities; an indistinct medial shade excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; the postmedial line somewhat dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent cutwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight fuscous suffusion before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white; the termen slightly tinged with brown at discal fold; a fine terminal brown line; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and curved postmedial series on the veins. Hab, Canava, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 6. Exp. 40 millim. *259. Porosagrotis scortea. (Plate LIX. fig. 29.) Peridroma scortea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 141 (1898). 3d. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the veins slightly irrorated with grey and black: the subbasal line represented by a black point on median nervure ; traces of a waved antemedial line and of the pale-edged clayiform stigma; orbicular and reniform indistinct, irrorated white and fuscous, and with whitish annuli, the former round; a fine dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line defined by diffused brown on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, tinged with brown especially on terminal area, the veins brownish; cilia white with a brown line through them ; underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, type ¢f ¢ in Coll. Schaus. Lap. 34 millim, L2 148 NOCTUIDE. 260. Porosagrotis mimallonis. (Plate LIX. fig. 30.) Agrotis mimallonis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. P- 98 (18738) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. Agrotis rufipennis, Grote, Can, Ent. vii. p. 83 (1875). ¢. Head and thorax bright chestnut-red, sometimes tinged with crimsen or purple ; palpi blackish at sides; antenne brown; tibie and tarsi blackish ringed with grey; abdomen dorsally ochreous tinged with fuscous, the sides, ventral surface, and anal tuft reddish. Fore wing chestnut-red; a shght waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line indistinct, angled inwards on median nervure and outwards above inner margin: the orbicular and reniform small, fuscous, with greyish annuli; an oblique dentate medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial tine minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly dentate, and with the area beyond it rather darker. Hind wing white ; the veins and termen brownish ; the underside with dark discoidal point, the costal area irrorated with red. 2. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with brown. Hab, Canapa; USA. N. York 2 3, 1 @ type rufipennis, Montana 1 ¢ Grote Coll., California (Walsingham), 1 9. Hwp. 40-44 millim. Genus MICRAGROTIS, nov. Type, M. axylides. Proboscis rather small; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair below ; frons with truncate conical corneous prominence with raised walls and curved corneous plate below it ; antennz of male minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales; fore tibize short and broad, spined at sides, and with two long curved claws on inner side at extremity, and short claw or claws on outer ; mid and hind tibix spined. Fore wing short, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the ‘areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. Sror. I. Fore tibix with 2 claws and 2 spines on outer side, 2 claws and 6 spines on inner. A. Fore wing with fine dark streaks in interspaces of terminal area. a. Fore wing suffused with black except on terminal area. exus¢a. Be Fore wing suffused with bluish grey ..............-+..0000 interstriata. “ore wing pale reddish brown. . Fore wing with black streak below base of cell ...... strigibasis. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell... axylides. B. Fore wing without dark streaks in interspaces of terminal area. a. Fore wing without black patch in cell between the stigmata. a, Fore wing with rufous medial line ...................65 lacteata. 6'. Fore wing without medial line........................0:- puncticostata. b. Fore wing with black patch in cell between the SLU A TORI panos qponeboRddeoGaAeesoondDegadannoGagoDONOGoEDES. onOASO PUfESCENS. MICRAGROTIS. 149 261. Micragrotis exusta, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 1.) ¢. Head and thorax fuscous, the tips of scales grey, the vertex of head and base of tegule ochreous or rufous; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface fuscous. Fore wing greyish fuscous ; the basal area tinged with rufous; the subbasal line represented by slight stris from costa and cell; an indistinct interrupted waved black antemedial line; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line indistinct dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incuryed below vein +, the area beyond it ochreous with dark streaks on the veins and obscure rufous streaks in the interspaces; some pale points on costa towards apex ; indistinct dark dentate marks on termen above middle and tornus; a terminal series of minute black lunules ; the cilia chequered ochreous and fuscous. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal point and postmedial series of strize on the veins. Hab, Masnonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 3 ¢ type. Lup. 34 millim. 262. Micragrotis interstriata. (Plate LX. fig. 3.) Agrotis interstriata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 264 (1902). Head and thorax black, with some whitish round base of antenne ; tarsi with whitish rings; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing fuscous black, suffused with blue-grey except ‘costal area and cell to beyond postmedial line; the terminal area browner, with black streaks on the veins and brown streaks in the interspaces; the antemedial line fine, double, angled slightly inwards below costa and on subcostal nervure, strongly on median nervure, very strongly on yein 1; orbicular and reniform smail, defined by black, the former round, whitish, the latter with fuscous centre; an oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line close to reniform, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, and incurved below vein 4; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points; cilia chequered pale and black. Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with fuscous, the cilia with ochreous ; the underside with slight discoidal point. Hah. Masnonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 3$; Narat, Weenen, 1 g type, Karkloof (Marshall), 3 3, 19; Carn Cotony, Transkei (Miss Ff. Barrett), 13. Hap. 30 millim., 263. Micragrotis strigibasis. (Plate LX. fig. 4.) Agrotis strigibasis, Hmpsn. Ann, 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 264 (1902). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous; tegule with blackish medial line; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by a striga from 150 NOCTUID 2. costa; the antemedial line double, filled in with ochreous, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards to base in cell and moderately inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; a slight black streak below base of cell; claviform small, slightly defined by blackish; orbicular and reniforn small, with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round ; a slight oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line defined by ochreous on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing yellowish white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous, a post- medial series of points on the veins developed into a waved line towards costa. Hab. Basvrotand, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 5,1 9, Masite, 1 9; Care. Conony, Annshaw (Miss IF’. Barrett), 2 3, 1 Q type Zep. 30 millim, 264. Micragrotis axylides, n. sp. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous; patagia with a purplish tinge; tarsi with black and pale rings ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous suffused with purplish brown; the veins streaked with blackish ; two fine pale streaks in base of cell; the antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, dentate and angled strongly inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1: orbicular and reniform small, with blackish centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former Fig. 56.—Micragrotis axylides, §. 2, round, the cell between them and area above it suffused with fuscous black ; traces of an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area and termen slightly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Ponsas, Mean Meer (Harford), 2 3 type; Srnp, Bhug (Nurse), 1Q. Hap. So 25, 2 20 millim: 265. Micragyrotis lacteata, n. sp. (Plate LIX. fig. 51.) Head and thorax grey mixed with ferruginous ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides; frons with black bar above; tegule MICRAGROTIS, 151 with black medial band; prothoracie crest with black band; tegul rufous ; tibiz and tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen greyish ochreous. Fore wing pale blue-grey with slight black irroration ; the costal area suffused with rufous to near apex; the subbasal line indistinct, double, waved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct double, waved; claviform re- presented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, with black centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round ; an oblique waved ferruginous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, and produced to a series of points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being rufous, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of black points; cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing pure white, with fine dark punctiform terminal line; the underside with the costal area ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial series. Hab, Br. EK. Arrica, Athi R. (Betton), 4 5, 1 Q type. fep. 28-30 imillim. 266. Micragrotis puncticostata. (Plate LIX. fig. 32.) Agrotis puncticostata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 263 (1902). g. Head and thorax black mixed with some grey; metathorax more or less red-brown; frons with deep black bar above; tegule with biack medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey, with slight dark irroration and blackish streaks on the veins; the costal area suffused with rufous and black to the subterminal line; a diffused rufous patch on base of inner area; the subbasal line represented by indistinct double striz from costa; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved and angled inwards on the veins; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with black centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round; the post- medial line dentate and produced to a series of black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a series of points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale, defined by the area beyond it being reddish brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 3, +; a fine black terminal line; cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind wing white ; the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 2. Fore wing rather more suffused with brown; hind wing tinged with ochreous. Hab, Natar, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 3,1 2 type; Basvrozanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 6. Hep, 30 millim. 52 NOCTUIDAE, 267. Micragrotis rufescens, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 2.) » Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; tegulz with slight dark medial line; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous with slight dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by double strive from costa and cell; aslight black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former round or oblique, elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, the cell between them black; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, - pale, defined by fuscous suffusion before it at costa, developing into a pale apical patch, angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and the terminal area in female; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. . Hab. Carr Cotony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 3 type, Bushmen L, (Alston), 1 9. Hap. 36 millim. Srcr. IL. Fore tibix with one claw on outer side and two on inner. 268. Micragrotis acydonta, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with black-; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, and with sub- lateral blackish stripes. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area extending to median nervure and vein 2 suffused with fuscous brown to the postmedial line; the subbasal line represented by double striz from costa filled in with ochreous; a double waved antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin, the claviform being represented by a small black spot on its outer edge; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, round, white, the latter blackish irrorated with white, the end of cell and area round it suffused and irrorated with black ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to long black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly MICRAGROTIS.—EUXOA. eliaes incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by the brown suffusion on its inner side and blackish on outer, bent outwards to apex, angled inwards at discal fold, then excurved; a terminal series of black and white points. Hind wing ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a terminal series of blackish strize ; the underside with black discoidal spot and indistinct dentate postmedial line. Hab. Br. B. Arrica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 ¢ type. Avp. 26 millim., Genus EUXOA. Type. ldneaom, Talila, WG Tee PAVE) (CEPA) céanocnasave cabdenbosasensdensseeDoe decora. Irjonaea@,, Vellayal, Ew, (oe HAUS) (GSP) ea conboansadcoonscoonbade dos oboD lucipeta. Mines Hut. Vierz) pe 210GIS2 7), duce coder scrnerten cevecestaeee decora. Metaxyia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 225 (USD) E Beceieee ie asa esane ssteese vitta. Jaros, AabblaMS OWA Ds 24D) (USO) Goocauccoscedaboononsopscsanbuse obelisca. Sees, laliblayat., \WeiwAy [Da e2e48) (sP7() eochagoce seqcsoesuoesoor a sane ene sae cinerea, ratty belle WEA, os LAG (CST), ceconecnacenomeecsacpacceodsosoaddee nigricans. Agronoma, Hiibn. Verz. pee 2: i (CUISRATA Ss Baees aaeneen cnas aeseaeascanonn crassa. CHaorape Aelia, WOW, The 274i (SPAT) “Qsbdenausnescodacose aaduscoBeouce segetis. Telmia, Hubn. Verz. p- 357 1827) b Aidt PR CARO C EEE ROBE nee cursorid. Orthodes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 371 (Sa2 ee eisiient satesecadesseseces t-nigrum. Tiguan, Ws, xexaitil oy, GAUL (Cle18}5) oaonosaceenbeccéaccecacesonece albinasus. lolfeopamha, NW, SSS a6 J, (HL (ONS). coco 9 sosasqr sbooeedpecedeenoc albinasus. Pleonectopoda, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 136 (1873)... evisi. Orbifrons, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvili. p. 187 (1877) ......... singularis. Carneades, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 4 (1883), nec Bates, Col. SG OMe ee seks scee occa ei een eaek ae otice ce seeMsndioeveimane cagcunene MOrens. Chorizagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p.98 (1890) . aaue«iliaris. Rhizagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxviii. p. 103 (1890). acelivis. Ag faaiiy, ValUlong ALA aUNEIL, ce aqganuedonemeagocbounBbRBocORabesoscnOo ro: segetis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim ; vestiture hairy ; tibiee strongly spined ; pro- and metathorax with rather spreading crests. Hore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; male with the claspers bifurcate. Secr. I. (Agronoma). Antenne of male bipectinate to apex, with long branches. A. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical. a. Fore wing with the orbicular large. a’, Fore wing with the veins defined by whitish streaks. obesa. b', Fore wing with the veins not defined by whitish streaks, a*, Fore wing with the veins streaked with white... polybela. 6°. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white. crassa. b. Fore wing with the orbicular small. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards Below be PLA VISORIU Ses cndeanendeeseahos-coa0syomcausicie graslint. b', Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled out- wards) Delows the Clawitormn sac cnseces ce seactcee resect lasserret. B. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical ............ rugifrons. 154 ; NOCTIUIDE. C. Her wing with the orbicular-round. ore wing with the veins not streaked with white. . Fore wing with the costal area and disk suffused with rufous. Gh dabharal vy pbales ANN loc cocoon cocaodano abo sposcdooauednpsansas= betica. ade Hind wing suffused with brown on terminal area . pierreti. Fore wing with the costal area and disk whitish ... /ansarotensis. b. one wing with the veins streaked with white ............ trifida. 269. Euxoa obesa. Agrotis obesa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 112 (1829) ; id. Icon. Lép. Eur. pl. 75. if. 1,2; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. 1. p. 173, pl. 16; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 5. f. 22; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. Agrotis lipara, Rmbr. Amn. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 68. Agrotis scytha, Alph. Rom. Mém. v. p. 145 (1889). 3. Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with grey; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore wing yellow- brown, the interspaces suffused with fuscous brown towards termen ; the subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell; the antemedial line obsolete except in sub- median interspace, where it is blackish and angled outwards in the fold; claviform very large, somewhat quadrate, red-brown defined by black ; orbicular and reniform red-brown, with ochreous annuli defined by black, the former, large, diamond-shaped, and con- nected with the reniform which is large; the postmedial line big. 58.—EHuvoa olesa, g. }. indistinct, blackish, defined by ochreous on outer side, bent out- wards below costa, excurved round the reniform, then incurved; a subterminal series of ochreous lunules with dentate black marks on their inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle: the veins of terminal area streaked with black and defined by pale streaks ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with ochreous. 2. Hind wing with pale fuscous discoidal lunule and terminal band. Ab. 1. seytha: paler; the fore wing almost white.—S. Russia; W. Asia: Persia. Hab. 8. France, 4 ¢, 3 2, Frey & Leech Colls.; Srary; Ivaty; ALGERIA: 8. Russta; ArmentaA, 2 ¢ ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; Syrza; Persia; W. Turkestan, Turkomania. vp. 36 millim. EUXOA. 155 Larva. Mill. Ieonographie, iii. p. 302, pl. 187. ff. 1-3. Pale greenish, the dorsal area tinged with brown and with pale dorsal line ; head and thoracic shield brown. Food-plant : flowers of Pterotheca nemaucensis. *270. Euxoa polybela. (Plate LXV. fig. 1.) Euxoa polybela, de Joan. Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 28. 2. Head, tegulee, and patagia olive-ochreous tinged with brown ; palpi and sides of frons blackish; thorax whitish; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with the apex rather produced and acute, ochreous, the inner margin tinged with rufous, the veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks; a brown patch below cell near base confluent with the brown claviform, both marks being incompletely defined by black and with whitish streak in submedian fold; a short subbasal black streak above inner margin; orbicular and reniform brown, the veins on them white, the former produced on outer side and confluent with the latter, the former partialiy defined by black above and the latter on outer side; the subterminal line defined on inner side by a series of prominent dentate brown marks with small triangular black spots on them; a series of black strie just before termen ; cilia rufous, with grey and black line through them. Hind wing whitish irrorated with dark brown; a brown discoidal lunule; the inner margin brown; a terminal series of brown strix; the underside with dark brown streak in base of cell, the discoidal lunule prominent, with the discocellulars pale. Hab. AteErta, Philippeville, type + 2 in Coll. Joannis. vp. 36 millim. 271. Euxoa crassa. Noctua crassa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 166 (1826); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 560; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 236, pl. 67. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. Agrotis lata, Treit. Schmett. Eur. Suppl. x. p. 24 (1834); Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 4. f. 20 & pl. 6. f. 29. Agrotis golickei, Eysch. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, viii. p. 516 (1871); Fedtsch. Reis. p. 41, pl. 5. ff. 39, 40. Agrotis huguenini, Ruhl. Soc. Ent, 1891, p. 4. 3. Head and thorax yellow-brown tinged with fuscous ;_ palpi blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous banded with fuscous, the base whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous, suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown; a double waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold filled in with ochreous ; a similar antemedial line dentate outwards below costa and very strongly above inner margin ; claviform well developed and outlined with black; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, pale annuli, and black outline, the former elliptical and often produced on outer side, the latter large ; postmedial line waved, black, defined by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4+, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 5G NOCTUIDE. subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, with dentate black marks before its medial part more or less prominently continued as streaks to termen; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a brown line through them. Hind wing pure white. 2. Rather darker; hind wiug with the terminal area suffused with brown; a dark terminal line, and line. through the cilia. Ab. 1. lata. Larger, the antenne thicker, the fore wings more variegated.— Mediterranean subregion. Ab. 2. golicei. Much paler; fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous-grey.—ARMENIA; Persta; C, Asta. Hab. France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Huneary, Frey Coll. ; Sparn; Sarpryta; Iraty (Leach); Siciry; ALtelers; GREECE; S. Russta; Armenta; Asta Mrnor, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Turkestan, Tekké, 1 ¢, Fergh ana; ; W. Sipser, Altai. Hwp., 5 44, 9 48 millim. 272. Euxoa lasserrei. Luperina lasserrei, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p- 86, pl. 1). ff. 13, 14 (188); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. pp. 154, 254. Gehan unctus, Christ, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 164; id. Rom. Mem. vy. p. 25, pl. 2. £ 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. Agr ois sabura, Mab. Ball. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 42. 3. Head and thorax grey and pale red mixed with black; palpi blackish at tips ; tegulee with black medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale red irrorated and in parts clouded with fuscous; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line excurved below costa and angled outwards above inner margin to postmedial line ; elayiform well developed, defined by black : cell clouded with fuscous, the orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former elliptical ; postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line represented by a series of whitish lunules with dentate dark marks before them, angled outwards at vein 7 and strongly dentate at veins 3 and 2; the veins of terminal half with fuscous streaks ; a terminal series of smali black lunules. Hind wing white; the veins slightly tinged with brown; some postmedial points on median nervules ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous; a small discoidal spot and a series of postmedial strize on the veins. Ab. 1. wacta. Fore wing not tinged with rufous.—Turkomania. Hab, Aucurta,1 3 ; Tunis, Gabes type T, sabura in Coll. Mabille ; Palestine; W. Turxusran, Turkomania. vp. 32 millim. 273. Euxoa graslini. Agrotis graslini, Ramb. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 70, pl. i. ff. 1, 2; Herr.- Schatt. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 623; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 102. Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous, the costal area and veins whitish ; an indistinct antemedial whitish BUXOA. ays line acutely dentate inwards below cell and on vein 1, angled outwards in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform elongate, brown defined with dark brown; orbicular minute, elliptical, white with brown central point and defined by dark brown ; reniform with fuscous centre and white annulus defined by dark brown; the postmedial line brown defined by whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, whitish, with dentate red-brown marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond _ it rather darker with terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with a blackish line near extremity ; the costa somewhat excavate beyond middle. Hind wing white, the veins anda fine terminal line brownish ; the underside with shght discoidal lunule. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the cell and the area below and just beyond it suffused with bright rufous. Hab. France, W. Coast, 3 5, 1 9, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Brittany, Plonharnel (de Joannis),2 ¢,2 9. Eup. 42 millim. Larva. On grasses growing on the sand-hills, feeding exclusively on those which grow at the summits of the hills (de Joannis). *274. Euxoa rugifrons. (Plate LXI. fig. 3.) Agrotis rugifrons, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 42; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. ¢. Head and thorax pale rufous ; tegulz with black medial line ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing rufous, the costal area pale; the subbasal line represented by a black spot below median nervure : the antemedial line obsolete on costal area, excurved in interspaces and defined by pale colour on inner side; claviform defined by black, elongate, narrow, with an oblique pale streak from its extremity; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter with pale centre; post- medial line indistinct, reduced to a series of small dentate marks, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- terminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by some dark points on its inner side at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing ochreous white with rufous terminal line, the cilia white; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial line. Hab. Tunts,Gabes, type T ¢ in Coll. Mabille. wp. 34 millim. *275. EKuxoa betica. Heliophohus betica, Boisd. Icones, pl. 74. f. 6 (1830); Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Hur., Noct. f. 25; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. Head and thorax yellowish ; tegule and patagia with dark edges, the former with dark medial line; abdomen whitish. Fore wing yellowish, the costal, inner, and terminal areas tinged with bluish 158 NOCTUID®. grey, the disk suffused with rufous ; a black streak below base of cell; the antemedial line obsolete on costal area, angled outwards below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by black; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former round; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line pale, defined by a series of dentate black marks before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points and a series on the cilia. Hind wing white, the veins slightly tinged with brown ; traces of a diffused brown postmedial line on costal half; a terminal series of points. Hab. Seain, S.W. Coasts. vp. 38 millim. This species is un- known to me. *276. Euxoa pierreti. (Plate LXI. fig. 4.) Episema pierretii, Bugnion, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 441, pl. 16. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. Heliophobus marsdeni, Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 40, pl. i. f. 9. ¢. Head and thorax whitish and pale rufous; patagia with white line followed by black scales round edges ; tarsi ringed with fuscous ; abdomen whitish, with ochreous dorsal bands. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with pale rufous, the veins brown defined by whitish ; subbasal line double, waved, interrupted in cell ; ante- medial line double, angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian fold, then waved ; claviform defined by black; orbicular small, round, white, defined by black; reniform grey, defined by white and black at sides only; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by dentate dark marks, angled out- wards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal halt suffused with brown; the underside with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Eayrr, Alexandria, type t ¢ marsdent in Coll. Baker. Exp. 30 millim. *277. Euxoa lansarotensis. (Plate LXI. fig. 5.) Agrotis lanzarotensis, Rebel, Ann, Nat. Hofim. ix. p. 52, pl. i. f. 5 (1894); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 3d. Antenne rufous; head white mixed with rufous; tegule rufous tipped with white and with black medial line ; thorax white, slightly mixed with rufous, and the patagia edged with rufous ; abdomen white tinged with rufous. Fore wing white, the costal, inner, and terminal areas slightly tinged with brown; an oblique black striga below base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by a black point below costa; the antemedial line obsolete except im submedian interspace, where it is black and angled outwards; clavi- form moderate, pale rufous defined by black ; orbicular small, round, EUXOA. 159 with brown centre and white annulus defined by brown; reniform greyish, with some black scales before and beyond it and some pale rufous between it and orbicular; postmedial line fine, dentate, blackish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and costal area tinged with brown, a brown terminal line, the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Canantes, Lanzarote I., type + ¢ in Mus, Vienna. Lap. 34 millim. 278. Euxoa trifida. Noctua trifida, F. de Waldh, Ent. Imp. Ross. i. p. 200, pl. 5. f. 6 (1820). Agrotis rogneda, Staud. Berl. e. Zeit. 1870, p. 113; Mill. Icon. iii. p. 395, pl. 149. f. 14; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. ¢. Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with brown and fuscous ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with brownish ochreous. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with black; the veins streaked with white ; the snubbasal line represented by black striz from costa and median nervure; the antemedial line waved, black ; claviform elongate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, ochreous, with black-irrorated centres and defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line waved, bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold, and very oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line whitish, defined by black suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia white, with a black line through them. Hind wing pure white, with fine brown terminal line; the underside with slight brown irroration and curved postmedial line on costal area only. Hab. Sparn, Valladolid ; 8. Russra, Crimea, Sarepta, 2 ¢; Asra Minor, Pontus. vp. 36 millim. Sucr. II. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical third serrate. A. Female with the wings partially aborted. 279. Euxoa fatidica. Noctua fatidica, Hibn, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 704 (1827); Herr.- Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 89. f. 456 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1538. Hadena bombycia, Ey. Bull. Mose. ii. p. 632 (1851) ; id. in. p. 110, pl. 2. £.9 (1856). ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line, patagia edged with brown ; pectus and legs mostly black-brown ; abdomen dorsally pale brown, ventrally black-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown; the veins defined by grey streaks; the subbasal line represented by black 160 NOCLrUID®., strigee from costa and cell, the antemedial by a black striga from costa and a line from cell to inner margin, excurved in submedian interspace and very strongly dentate above inner margin; claviform elongate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former produced on outer side, the latter with dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the postmedial line, which is minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the subterminal line indistinct, dentate outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, and defined by dentate brown marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points; cilia pale, with a dark line through them. Hin wing pale fuscous brown; the cilia pale, with a brown line through them; the underside with discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. Q. Grey-brown to dark brown ; the wings reduced to about two- thirds length ; the markings of fore wing less prominent. Ab. 1. bombycia. Much darker; fore wings fuscous black ; hind wings grey-black.—Siberia, Mongolia. Hab. France, Pyrenees; Switzertand, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Norway; Rvussra, Urals; Anmenra, Caucasus; W. Siperza, Altai ; Moneoura. Exp., ¢ 46, 9 24-32 millim. Larva. Mill. Ann. Soe. Linn, Lyon, (2) xix. p. 44, pl. 112. ff. 5-8. Young stages: clear ochreous. Adult: blue-green, darker on dorsum ; warts and stigmata black, each with a single hair; lines almost obsolete ; thoracic shield black ; head reddish yellow with lateral black fascize. Food-plant, grasses. B. (Scotia). Female with the wings fully developed. a. Fore wing with dark fascia below base of cell confluent with the claviform. a’. Hind wing white. a2. Fore wing blue-grey with rufous in discal and SUDIMECTATL TOLGUS = lee eee nee necelcciiteasermerceterces endoged. b?, Fore wing brownish grey without rufous in discal and submedian folds ................- Bt ot % sabulosa. b', Hind wing suffused with fuscous. a®. Fore wing with short blackish marks in inter- _spaces beyond lower angle of cell .............. arenivolans, b?, Fore wing with black streaks in interspaces beyond the celle. Seeccaccnsemens cee ecnreecestenes ene chretient. }. Fore wing without dark fascia below base of cell. a}. Hind wing with dark patch on apical area on underside. a2, Fore wing with the veins prominently defined by white streaks ...........--:cseseeceeseerseseeenes repanda., }?, Fore wing with the veins not prominently defined by white streaks. a>, Forewing withthe orbicular elongate, elliptical. radians. °, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. a‘, Fore wing with the cell dark between the SIIFEATNEE) Gos gosanaqd sednnoaadaagadan9asb2090900900~ infusa. b', Fore wing with the cell between the stigmata not darker thanthe ground-colour. porphyricollis. , Hind wing without dark patch on apical area on underside, a®, Hind wing white, the terminal area more or less tinged with brown in female only. EUXOA. a®, Fore wing with the orbicular lanceolate. a*. Tegulee blackish at tips .............s0c-sceeee - 6+. Tegule brown, with medial black line ...... °. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. a‘, Head, thorax, and fore wing more or less brown, the stigmata defined by blackish . 24, Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-white, the stigmata indistinctly defined ............... }?, Hind wing more or less suffused with brown, especially in female. a®, Fore wing with the median veins prominently defined by whitish streaks. a‘. Fore wing with the veins below apex defined by whitish streaks. @. Kore wing with the orbicular well- developed; rounded ...-.........0..0-...<4- 2°, Kore wing with the orbicular small and produced on outer side.............2-+..0+ }*, Fore wing with the veins below apex not clearly defined by whitish streaks. a, Fore wing with the claviform large and Glomrahy Gleriings| Se cascdesqosnccbssaceopodeecoe d®, Fore wing withthe claviform narrow and TAPMET ODSCULCN eeieiecrae sot a oet-eisle sele-telsiciaie 3, Fore wing with the median veins not defined by whitish streaks. a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line almost Obsolete wsssesesesecdse see ee uisccelsewnciomelcsel-ne }*, Fore wing with the postmedial line well developed. a. Forewing with the orbicular well defined. a®. Forewing with prominent brown striz. | 28, Fore wing with dark irroration. a. Fore wing reddish brown, the orbicular large, round. a, Fore wing with the claviform lamcenmounde dy meenascscossteeoss. 6’. Fore wing with the claviform narrow, elongate...............se000 3°, Fore wing greyish, the orbicular : emmalllbyelinp iicallleces scenes stacessaess> c’, Fore wing greenish grey, the lines and stigmata rather indistinct...... b°, Fore wing with the orbicular quite or almost obsolete. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line Genltatomecotanaceectontnccdcavascencceanonee }°, Fore wing with the postmedial line MO tKdentatercencscocsasce crn csmaceessicece ss 280. Euxoa endogea. 161 longidentifera. interjectionts. segetis. subalba. robusta. trifureula, vestigialis. trifurca. ruta. corticea, cinchonina. edictalis. admirationis. ceropachoides. cinerea. crassilinea. Agrotis endogea, Boisd. Icones, pl. 75. f. 5 (1832); Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147 Agrotis ‘arenicola, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 109; Mill. Icones, “pl. 146. f. 6. 3d. Head and thorax white mixed with ochreous; abdomen whitish. Fore wing whitish tinged with blue-grey, and with ochreous in base of submedian interspace and in and beyond the cell; the costa fuscous, with white spots at the lines and towards VOL. IV. M 162 NOCTIUID®. apex; a black streak below base of cell confluent with the claviform which is defined by black; orbicular large, elongate elliptical, defined by black except above where it is open ; reniform fuscous, defined by black and with white lunule on its inner edge; subterminal line only defined by slight dentate marks on its inner side towards costa and a dark mark beyond it between veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white. @. Bluer grey ; fore wing with large dentate black marks before subterminal line ; hind wing suffused with grey towards termen. Hab. Corstca; Sarpinia, 1 ¢. Eap., b 34, 2 36 millim. *281. Euxoa sabulosa. Agrotis sabulosa, Rmbr. Faun. And, pl. 17. f. 3 (1839); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. g. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with white; tegule with black medial line; abdomen white tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing brownish grey, suffused in parts with rufous and fuscous, the veins streaked with black ; the costal area fuscous with pale points at the lines and towards apex; an irregular black streak below base of cell; antemedial line repre- sented by an excurved portion in submedian interspace ; claviform large, filled in with black, rounded at extremity; orbicular and reniform black with grey annuli, the former produced on outer side; the cell. between them black; subterminal line only defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black marks; a blackish patch before termen between veins 7 and 4, and a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Seaty, Andalusia, in Coll. Oberthur. wp. 42 millim. 282, Euxoa arenivolans. (Plate LX. fig. 5.) Agrotis arenivolans, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 269 (1879). Head and thorax dark brown and grey-white; tegule with black medial line; patagia grey, edged with dark brown above; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with brown except at base. Fore wing grey- white, the veins with fine black streaks ; a dark brown fascia on costa; a black-brown fascia below the cell from base to beyond middle, attenuate at extremities; a short black fascia above inner margin near base and a narrow fascia on inner margin from middle to tornus; the lines obsolete; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, produced on outer side, sometimes met by a tooth from inner side of reniform ; the cell just before and between the stigmata dark brown; elliptical dark brown spots above bases of veins 2, 3, 4, and 6; the subter- minal line only defined by the area beyond it being black-brown, dentate to termen at veins 7, 4,3, 2, and 1; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces somewhat pale towards base in male; cilia pale, with a brown line through EUXOA. 163 them ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal spot. Hab, Hawatt, Maui (Blackburn), 1 3,1 Q type, Kona (Perkins), 1S. Evp. 42-46 millim. *283. Euxoa chretieni. (Plate LXV. fig. 2.) Euxoa chretieni, Dumont, Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 83. 2. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; palpi black except towards tips; tegule with black medial line; abdomen dark brown slightly mixed with grey. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with whitish ; a black streak below base of cell confluent with the claviform, which is rather small and elongate ; antemedial line only developed between cell and vein 1 where it is angled outwards, black ; orbicular obsolete; reniform brownish, with blackish centre and defined by black, rather diamond-shaped ; a series of black streaks beyond the cell between veins 6 and 2 extending to the subterminal line; the postmedial line represented by a series of small vitta- shaped black marks forming a W-mark in submedian interspace ; the area beyond the subterminal line greyer; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with blackish terminal line; the underside greyer, with slight discoidal spots and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Spatn, Cataluna, La Granja, type 2 in Coll. Dumont. Exp. 42 wmillim. 284. Euxoa repanda. (Plate LX. fig. 6.) Agrotis repanda, Wk. xi. 742 (1857). Head and thorax grey-white and dark brown; palpi with lateral blackish patch ; tegule brown at base and with black medial line ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing brown; the veins black, defined by white streaks on each side of them, less distinctly so towards costa; the subbasal line represented by black strige from costa and median nervure, defined by white on outer side ; the antemedial line black, defined by white on inner side, acutely dentate outwards below costa, angled inwards on median nervure, excurved in submedian interspace and dentate outwards to middle of wing above inner margin; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former produced on outer side, the cell between the stigmata and a patch beyond the reniform black-brown; the postmedial line represented by double black strive on costa and an imcurved waved maculate line on its inner edge from vein 5 to inner margin; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by a series of dentate black marks on its inner edge and dentate outwards to termen at veins 7, 4, 3,2; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown; the inter- spaces of basal half whitish in male; the underside white, with large apical black patch, more or less fuscous on termen, and fine terminal black line. mu 2 164 NOCTUIDA, Hab. Vicrorta (Bakewell), 1 3, 1 Q type; Tasmanza, 1 oC. Exp., 3 44, 9 50 millim. 285. Euxoa radians. (Plate LX. fig. 7.) Agrotis radians, Guen. Noct. i. p. 261 (1852). Agrotis munda, Wik. x. 348 (1856). Mamestra basinotata, Wik. xv. 1686 (1858). Agrotis turbulenta, W1k. xxxii. 703 (1865). Agrotis injuncta, W1k. xxxii. 708 (1865). Agrotis scapularis, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 110. f. 15 (1874). Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white; tegule with dark medial line ; abdomen pale ochreous suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown, the anal tuft rufous ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing brown mixed with white especially towards costa, on which is a series of small black spots ; the veins with dark streaks, the median nervure and vein | defined on each side by white; a curved subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold, interrupted in cell; a curved double antemedial line between median nervure and vein | filled in by whitish; claviform elongate, dark brown defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, whitish annuli and black outline, the former small, elliptical, the latter well developed and with the cell between the - stigmata dark brown ; the postmedial line very indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the terminal area much browner; the subterminal line prominent and white or very indistinct, dentate, with a series of dentate blackish marks before it and streaks in the interspaces beyond it ending in the terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia pale, with two fine brown lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal and inner areas tinged with ochreous; the veins brownish, the termen suffused with fuscous, narrowing from costa to a point at vein 2; cilia white, fuscous at apex. Underside of fore wing white, with small discoidal lunule and the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; hind wing with rounded apical black patch. 2. Usually suffused with fuscous, the markings obscure. Hab. QuEENsLAND, Brisbane (Turner), 1 3,1 9; W. Avsrratia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 2 6,29; N.S. Wares, Hunter R. (Purser), 1 2, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 3 2 types basinotata and turbulenta, Sydney (Mathew, Raynor),5 3,42; Vicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 3; S. Ausrratia, Adelaide ( Wilson, Bakewell), 1 6, 1 2, type munda and type injuncta ; Tasmania, 1 9; Frrenpiy Is. (Brenchley), 16; N. Zeatanp, 1 $; Norrorx [.(Mathew), 1 3. Haup. 36-44 millim, Type tT ¢ in Mus. Paris, type tf 2 scapularis in Coll. Rothschild. 286. Euxoa infusa. (Plate LX. fig. 8.) Noctua infusa, Boisd. Voy. del’ Astrolabe, Lép. p. 240 (1835). Agrotis cordata, W\k. xi. 741 (1857). Agrotis aneituma, W\k. xxxii. 701 (1865). 3. Head and thorax brown, irrorated with a few black scales, the hairs tipped with grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey- EUXOA. 165 brown, dorsally tinged with fuscous, ventrally paler with sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by double strive from costa ; the ante- medial line double, waved, acutely angled inwards on median nervure, then sharply outwards above inner margin ; claviform usually pre- sent, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them black ; a dentate black mark beyond the latter; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed ; the subterminal line pale, defined by indis- tinct dentate brown marks on its inner side, the area beyond it dark, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, apical area and termen fuscous brown; the underside with prominent apical patch. Hab, Avstrauia, 1 ¢ type, cordata; N.S. Wauus (Raynor), 2 3; Vicrorra; New Hesripes, Aneiteum, 1 ¢ type ancituma. Exp. 40-44 millim. Larva. Frogatt, Agric. Gaz. N. 8. Wales, x. p. 1252 (1900). : Smooth, hairless, varying from pale olive-green to dull black and with lateral stripes. Food-plants: grasses, Trifolium, ete. This is the edible “ Bugong Moth,”’ the perfect insect being roasted and eaten in large numbers by the natives. 287. Euxoa porphyricollis. (Plate LX. fig. 9.) Agrotis porphyricollis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 259 (1852). Perigea albinasus, W1k. x. 276 (1856). Agrotis rubrilinea, W1k. x. 351 (1856). Agrotis recondita, W\k. x. 351 (1856). Agrotis dorsicinis, W1k. xv. 1701 (1858). Graphiphora lapidosa, Wik. xv. 1707 (1858). Spelotis pectinata, W\k. xxxiii. 707 (1865). Hlegarda orthosioides, Wik. xxxiii. 712 (1865). Tetrapyrgia graphiphorides, Wik. xxxiii. 712 (1865). Hlegarda summa, Wk. xxxiii. 713 (1865). Hadena albipalpis, Wik. xxxiii. 741 (1865). Agrotis baueri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 10 (1874). Head and thorax bright rufous or dark brown more or less strongly mixed with grey; palpi blackish at sides, whitish in front and at tips; pectus and legs mostly grey, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing bright or pale rufous, or grey, more or less strongly irrorated and striated with dark brown and often suffused with fuscous ; a double minutely waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform small, or minute, blackish: orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and obscure outline, the former very small, the latter with brown striz from costa above it and indistinct waved line from it to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, often indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line only 166 NOCTUID. defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous brown except in interspaces towards base ; cilia pale with a brown line through them; the underside white, slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, a sinuous post- medial line with the area beyond it more or less suffused with fuscous and with large black apical patch. Hab, Austrauia, 1 3 type rubrilinea, 1 Q type albinasus ; QuEENSLAND, Brisbane (Turner), 3 ¢,3 9; N.S. Wares, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 6 3,1 9, types dorsicinis, albipalpis, pectinata, and orthosioides, Sydney (Raynor, Rietmann), 13 3, 4 2; Vuicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell),2 g,1 9, Melbourne (Lucas), 1 ¢; Tasmanra, 2,1 Q, types recondita, graphiphorides,and summa. Exp. 32-46 millim. Type fin Mus. Paris; type f 2 lapidosa in Mus. Oxon. 288. Euxoa longidentifera, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 10.) Head and thorax red-brown, more or less strongly mixed with grey and black ; palpi blackish at sides; pectus with some white hair ; abdomen white, more or less strongly tinged on dorsum with ochreous or fuscous and ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with fuscous, sometimes purplish grey or rufous, the costal area suffused with fuscous; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved ante- medial line acutely angled outwards below costa and very strongly above inner margin ; claviform elongate, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, and grey annuli defined by black, the former produced to a point on outer side, the latter moderate; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of small dentate brown marks on its inner side, the area beyond it usually darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white ; female with the veins and margins tinged with brown. Hab. Br. KE, Arrica, Muthambi (Crawshay), 1 9, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 3g, Kikuyu (Betton), 1 3 type; MasHonatann, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 3; Narat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 33,52, Durban (Gooch), 1 S$: Basurotanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 3 ; Mapacascar, Diego Suarez. Hup., ¢ 34, 2 40 millim. 289. Euxoa interjectionis. (Plate LX. fig. 11.) Agrostis interjectionis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 281 (1852). Agrostis orbicularis, Wk. xxxii. 700 (1868). Agrostis significans, W\k. xxxii. 700 (1865). 3. Pale grey-brown; sides of palpi and frons dark brown; tegulee with black medial line; abdornen' white. Fore wing with the basal area tinged with fuscous brown on basal half; a pale subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a dark antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, slightly angled inwards at median BUXOA. 167 nervure and obsolete towards inner margin; claviform large, dark brown with black outline ; orbicular elongate, elliptical, with brown centre, pale annulus, and black outline ; reniform brown, with dark centre and black outline, the cell between the stigmata dark brown ; postmedial line formed by minute dark strive on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sub- terminal line indistinct, pale, dentate at veins 7, 4, 3, 2, and with short, dark streaks before it at middle; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia yellowish brown, with two fine dark lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline white. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing uniformly tinged with fuscous ; hind wing with the costal and inner areas tinged with brown. Hab, Perak; Java (Horsfield), 2 3 type significans, 3 2 type and type orhicularis, Samarang (Meijer), 1 6; N. AusrRatia, Pt. Darwin, 2 g. Ewxp., 3 34, 2 40 millim. 290, Euxoa segetis. Noctua segetum, Schiff. Wien. Verz. pp. 81, 252, ff. 3.4, b (1776); Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 147; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 181; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Noctua precox, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 359 (1827), nee Linn. Noctua fervida, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 711 (1827). Agrotis sicula, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840). Agrotis dimidia, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 439. Agrotis sicania, Guen. Noct. i. p. 275 (1852). Agrotis marginalis, Wik. x. 339 (1856). Agrotis obliviosa, Wk. x. 340 (1856). Agrotis aversa, Wk. x. 345 (1856). Agrotis correcta, W\k. x. 3845 (1856). Agrotis denticulosa, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 168 (1860). Agrotis conspurcata, Wik. xxxii. 696 (1865) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pl 147. f.'7 a. Agrotis repulsa, W\k. xxxii. 696 (1865). Agrotis certificata, Wk. xxxii. 697 (1865). Agrotis ingrata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 162 (1878); id. Ill. Het. B. M. ie ps2, pla 29) t. 9: Agrotis pallida, Stgr. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423. Agrotis fucosa, Butl. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 179. Agrotis lassa, Swinh. P. Z. 8. 1886, p. 444. Fig. 59.—Hu«oa segetis. . +. (From Moths Ind vol ii.) 3. Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous slightly irrorated with black; palpi brown at sides; antennse brown; tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous striated with brown; a double fuscous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold interrupted at cell; 168 NOCLUID&. a double waved antemedial line, the outer stronger; claviform elongate, usually small, outlined with black; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with brownish centres, the former small or large, round or somewhat elliptical, the latter usually well- developed ; an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle: a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costa, inner margin, and termen tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown and crossed by a postmedial striga. Specimens are often tinged with reddish brown or fuscous. @. Nearly always darker and suffused with reddish brown or fuscous; fore wings sometimes fuscous black, the markings obscured. Ab. 1. pallida. Ground-colour grey-white; the markings of fore wing indistinct.—C. Asia; Amur. Hab. Briratn; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Spar, Zeller Coll.; Story, Zeller Coll.; S. Russra, Sarepta, Zeller Coll.; Syrra, Zeller & Leech Colls., The Lebanon (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 2; Maperra (Leech), 19; Canarizs, 2g, 19; Socorra (Grant), 1¢,19; Br. E. Arrica, Munisu (Ld. Delamere), 1 go, Muani (Betton), 1 9; Masnonaranp, Salisbury (Marshall), 1g, 29; Narat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 2 5, 12; Basuronann, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 3, 192, Mahalishoek, 1 9; C. Conony (A. Smith, Drege), 1 3 type obliviosa, 3 2 type marginalis ; E. Turkestan, Kuldja,1 6,19; Amur, 1 6,2 9; Japan, Yoko- hama (Jonas), 3 2 type ingrata, (Manley) 1 3, 1 2, Yat Zuchiro (Lewis), 15,19, Kiushu, 2¢, Gitu (Pryer), 1g, Nikko (Leech), 19, Tokio (Maries), 33,22 type fucosa; Cora, Gensan (/to), 19; N. Curna, Shanghai, 1 ¢ type certsficata; Namoa I. (J. J. Walker), 1g; W. Cura, 'l'a-chien-lu, 1 ¢, 292, Chia-kou-ho, 19, Chang-yang, 2 9 (Pratt); Arenanistan, Dubrai (Swinhoe), 1 9; Kasumir, Narkunda, 1 ¢, 1 9, Kuiyar, 1 ¢, Nubra,1 g, 19, Barra Larcha,1¢,192 (McArthur), Dugi Pass (Thompson), 12, Dras, 19, Kiris, 1 ¢, Scinde Valley, 1 2, Goorais Valley, 1? (Leech); N.W. Himatayas, Murree (Harford), 2 6, 19, Rawal Pindi, 1 ¢, Cambellpur, 1 g, Thundiani, 2 3, 2 2 (VYerbury), Sultanpur (G. Young), 19, Simla, 23, 19 (Hearsey), type aversa, Dharmsila (Hocking), 436,89; N.Ivpvra (Boys), 1 9 type correcta, Dehra Dhun, 12; Srxuim (Dudgeon), 1g; BompBay, Mhow (Swin- hoe), 19 type lassa; Nttetrts (Hampson), 2 5, 32; CompatorE ( Wathouse), 12 type repulsa. Hap. 30-46 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 91; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 291, pl. 125. f. 1. Pale grey or greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with pink; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines usually defined by dark edges, the subdorsal sometimes grey; head pale, with two brown marks ; thoracic plate more or less brownish. Food-plant: roots of Brassica, Rumex, Chrysanthemum, ete. 7-4. EUXOA. 169 291. Euxoa subalba. Agrotis subalba, Wk. x. 339 (1856). Agrotis nivalis, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 110. f. 11 (1874). 3. Head and thorax grey-white, irrorated with brown and black scales; tarsi banded with black; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with brown, and with sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing pale grey, irrorated and striated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by double striz from costa; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, slightly angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; traces of the claviform sometimes present ; the orbicular and reniform with indistinct very incomplete outlines, and sometimes with fuscous centres; the postmedial line very indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the sub- terminal line sometimes defined by blackish spots before it on costa, then beyond it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, with some dark lunules or points on termen except towards tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. C. Cotony (Drége), 1 $ type, Capetown (Trimen), 2 3. Exp. 36-42 millim. 292. Euxoa robusta. (Plate LX. fig. 12.) al alle Ey. Bull. Mose. 1856, ii. p. 205; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. . 153. Marotta trifurca, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 120, nec Ev. $. Dark red-brown mixed with grey; tegule with a black line near extremities; patagia mostly grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark red-brown, the veins defined by white streaks; costa black towards base ; the subbasal line double, black, filled in with grey, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line similar, angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner margin; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbi- cular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round ; the postmedial line black, defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line grey, dentate, and with a series of dentate black marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of small black spots; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a dark line through them ; the underside grey, with black discoidal spot and curved dentate postmedial line. Hab. Russta, Urals; W. Srpurta, Altai; Moneorra, Urga, 1 ¢. Exp. 26 millim. 293. Euxoa trifurcula. Agrotis trifurcula, Staud. Iris, vy. p. 362, pl. 3. f. 6 (1892) ; id, ‘Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and black ; tegule with black medial line, the extremities grey ; patagia mostly 170 NOCTUIDA, grey ; abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown; the veins defined by white streaks ; the costa black towards base ; the subbasal line double, black filled in with grey, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line similar, angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner margin; claviform elongate defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former produced on outer side ; postmedial line black, defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line dentate, grey, with a series of dentate black marks on its inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside grey, with the terminal area suffused with brown, a black discoidal point and indistinct curved, minutely- dentate postmedial line. Hab. Moneouta, Changai Mts., Urga, 1 ¢; Siperia, Kentei. Exp. 38 roillim. 294, Euxoa vestigialis. Noctua vestigialis, Rott. Naturf, viii. p. 107 (1776); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. Noctua valligera, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2541 (1776); Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 150, 478 ; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 223, pl. 65. ff. 2,3; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 118. Noctua clavis, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 63. f. 5 (1782). Noctua trigonalis, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 75. f. 6 (1782). 3. Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-brown; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white tinged with pale brown. Fore wing grey-white, sometimes tinged with ochreous or grey-brown, the interspaces streaked with pale red-brown; the subbasal line represented by double black strie from costa and median nervure, the antemedial line by double strie from costa and a double line from median nervure to inner margin, angled in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin; claviform large, elongate, dark brown defined by black; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small, elongate, often conjoined to the latter, which is usually angled inwards on median nervure, some brown in the cell between the stigmata; the post- medial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line dentate at veins 8, 7, 4, 3, defined by dentate black marks before its medial part, and the area beyond it dark; cilia brown, with a pale line through them. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; the underside with distinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. 2. Darker; the hind wing wholly suffused with brown. Ab. 1. Brownish white, with all the markings obsolescent. Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; France, Mutzell & Frey Colls. ; toy / EUXOA. Al Denmark, Jutland; Germany, Mutzell & Zeller Colls. ; Swirzer- LAND, Frey Coll.; Spamy; Corsica; Iraty; W. Srperia, Altai, Leech Coll.,2 6,392. Hap. 32-44 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 90; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 281, pl. 124. f. 1. Light greenish grey; dorsal line pale, dark-edged; lateral line pale or whitish, dark-edged ; tubercles black; head pale ochreous with dark markings. Food-plants: grasses, Gallium, Stellaria, ete. 295. Euxoa trifurca. (Plate LX. fig. 13.) Agrotis trifurca, Ey. Bull. Soe. Mose. 1837, p. 81; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally fuscous. Fore wing grey-white or pale brown, the costal area fuscous to the subterminal line, the interspaces streaked with black-brown, leaving the veins defined by whitish except towards costa; a double subbasal line from costa to vein 1 inter- rupted in cell; a double antemedial line, obsolete towards costa, excurved below submedian fold and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform elongate and defined by black; orbicular and reniform with black centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former small, elongate, elliptical ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line pale, dentate outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and defined by dentate black marks on inner side and the area beyond it dark; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown: the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule. Hab. Russia, Urals; W. Srperta, Altai; Trser, Kuku Nor, Amdo; Siperra, Amur, 3 ¢. Hep. 48 millim. 296. Euxoa ruta. Xylina ruta, Ey. Bull. Mose. 1851, ii. p. 634; id. 1856, ii. p. 2138, pl. 1. f.5; Staud, Cat. Lep, pal. p. 151. 3g. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; antenne dark brown ; legs blackish, with white rings at extremities of tibiee and tarsal joints; abdomen ochreous tinged with pale fuscous. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous brown, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, almost obsolete on costal area; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former produced on outer side, the latter angled inwards on median neryure; the postmedial line barely traceable, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dentate subterminal line. Hind wing tuscous brown, tinged with ochreous towards base and inner 172 NOCTUIDA, margin; the underside pale, with the costal area grey irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal spot. Hab. Moneorta, Changai Mts. ; Srpurta, Kentei, 1 ¢. Hap. 46 millim. 297. Euxoa corticea. Noctua corticea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 81. 13 (1776); Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 145; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 250, pl. 68. ff. 3,4; Steph. Ul. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 114; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 181; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Noctua sincera, Frr. Neu Beitr. Schmett. pl. 544. f. 2 (1852). Noctua obscura, Frr. Neu Beitr. Schmett. pl. 628. ff. 1, 2 (1858). Noctua transversa, Wik. x. 354 (1856). Agrotis fraterna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 116 (1882). Agrotis amurensis, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 421 (1892). . 3. Head and thorax red-brown, more or less strongly mixed with grey; palpi blackish at sides, except at tips; tegule with black medial line ; pectus and legs strongly mixed with black, the tarsi with pale rings; abdomen pale, strongly suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly tinged and striated with red-brown, or wholly red-brown ; the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line; claviform outlined with black, elongate, and usually well-developed ; orbicular and reniform with black centres and outline and pale annuli, the former usually small or moderate, round, the latter usually with its lower extremity more or less angled inwards on median nervure; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved close round outer side of reniform, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with slight brown marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white or pale brown, the veins, costal and terminal areas darker brown; a fine dark terminal line and line at base of cilia; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular large, quadrate, open above. Ab. 2. obscura. Darker; fore wing with the medial area usually suffused with black. Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll..; France, Sand Coll.;: Germany, Mutzell & Zeller Colls.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Sear; Scan- DINAVIA; ARMEeNTA; W. Srperta, Altai; W. TurKkesran; Kasumutir, Narkundah (McArthur), 2 6,29, Jalauri Pass, 1 ¢, Dana, 1 9, Kokser, 2¢, 29, Barra Larcha, 3 9; Kutv, Sultanpur, 3¢,1 2, Simla (Swinhoe), 1 9, Thundiani (Yerbury), 23, 1 2, Dalhousie, 1$,19; Kanera, Dharmsila (Hocking),5 39,192; Sumi (Atkin- son, Dudgeon), 3 3, 12 type fraterna; Assam, Nagas: Niterrts, (Swinhoe), 1 3; Mapacascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 ¢; hab. ignotus, type Q transversa. Kap. 40-42 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 91; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 295, pl. 126. f. 1. Rather rough; brownish grey with dark freckles; dorsal line BUXOA. 173 pale, dark-edged; subdorsal line pale, edged above with dark brown ; subspiracular line pale, double; head marked with black. Food-plants: Chenopodium, Rumex, Trifolium, ete. 8-5. *298. Euxoa cinchonina. (Plate LX. fig. 14.) Agrotis cinchonina, Guen, Noct. i. p. 281 (1852). ©. Head and thorax ved-brown, mixed with dark brown; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing red-brown, suffused and irrorated with fuscous, especially on medial area; the subbasal line indistinct, double from costa to submedian nervure, slightly angled outwards below costa; the antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards below costa, and more strongly above inner margin; claviform defined by blackish, large, rounded ; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish and with blackish centres, the former large, round; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, rather indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line defined by very slight dark suffusion, more distinctly at costa ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing dark brown with a yellowish tinge; the underside paler with some dark irroration, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striw on the veins. Hab, Axsysstnta, type fT 2 in Mus. Paris. “vp, 34 millim. 299. Euxoa edictalis. (Plate LX. fig. 15.) Carneades edictalis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. iy. p. 99, pl. vi. f. 3 (1898). 6. Head and thorax reddish brown largely mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with slight dark medial line; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black; the subbasal line double, black, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, dentate, oblique; claviform small, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the former round, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity, the area between them slightly tinged with black ; the postmedial line strongly crenu- late, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; an indistinct dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale dusky brown, the discoidal lunule and terminal line darker. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 ¢. wp. 40 millim, 300, Euxoa admirationis. Agrotis admirationis, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 388 (1868); Hudson, New Zealand Macr. Lep. p. 31, pl. v. f. 37. Chersotis sericea, Butl. Cist. Ent. 11. p. 490 (1879). Chersotis inconspicua, Butl. Oist. Ent. 11. p. 545 (1880). _ Head and thorax grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; abdomen brownish grey, irrorated with black in female. Fore wing brownish grey, usually more or 174 NOCTUID”®. less irrorated with black ; the subbasal line black, defined by whitish on outer side from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa and in cell and very strongly above inner margin ; claviform more or less strongly defined by black ; orbicular and renitorm rather small, defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former elliptical, some black suffusion between them and beyond the reniform ; the postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian fold; a subterminal series of pale spots with dentate black marks on their inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a pale line at base. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous, especially towards termen; cilia pale with a brown line through them; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a prominent black discoidal spot. Hab, New Zuarann (Hutton, Skelton, Purdie, Mathew), 5 3,39, types sericea and inconspicua. Hap. 38 millim. *301, Euxoa ceropachoides. (Plate LXI. fig. 7.) Agrotis ceropachoides, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 39 (1868); Hudson’s New Zealand Moths, p. 52, pl. vi. f. 1. ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with greenish and thickly irrorated with dark brown; a semicircular whitish mark below base of cell 3 the antemedial line ill-defined, whitish, angled outwards below costa, where there is a dark striga on its outer side; orbicular and reni- form grey, indistinctly defined by blackish, the former rather produced on outer side; the postmedial line ill-defined, whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, where there is a dark striga on its inner side, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal line, slightly defined on inner side at costa with blackish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, 2; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia white at tips. Hind wing uniform grey-brown, the cilia white at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown. Hab. New Zeatann, Rakaia (Fereday) in Coll. Meyrick. Hep. 36 millim. 302. Euxoa cinerea. Noctua cinerea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 80. 3 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 155, 156; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 274, pl. 71. ff. 5, 6; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 127; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 178, pl. 17; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Noctua obscura, Hiibn. Hur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 157, 490 (1827). Agrotis fusca, Boisd. Ie. Lep. Eur. pl. 78. f. 4 (1832). Orthosia murina, Ky. Bull. Mose. iii. p. 218 (1848). Agrotis alpigena, Tur. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xvi. p. 75 (1883); Calb, Iris, i. p. 226, pl. 12. ff. 7, 8. EUXOA. 7S Agrotis livonica, Teich. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 169. Agrotis turatii, Staud. Iris, i. p. 216, pl. 10. f. 5 (1888); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Agrotis tephrina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148 (1901). Head and thorax grey, irrorated with dark brown and tinged with rufous; palpi mostly black; tegule black at base; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark brown ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line ; a waved medial shade excurved at middle, the area beyond it suffused with rufous ; reniform represented by a small lunule ; postmedial line blackish defined by grey, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather greyer ; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous, especially in female; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line, Ab. 1. alpigena. Paler; fore wing violaceous grey with the markings indistinct. Ab. 2. livonica. Much darker fuscous brown. Ab. 3. fusca 9. Large, black-brown. Ab. 4. tephrina. Small, the fore wing narrower, the markings usually very distinct; hind wing whiter; 2 sometimes with the ground-colour black.—Britain. Hab. Brrraiy, Leech Coll. ; Francz, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Huneary, D’Emmick Coll. ; Swirrzertann, Frey Coll. ; Span ; Traty ; Norway, Zeller Coll.; Turkey; Russra, Urals; Arment ; Asta Minor, Pontus. Hep. 32-42 millim. 303. Euxoa crassilinea. (Plate LX. fig. 16.) Agrotis crassilinea, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iy. p. 168 (1860). ®. Head and thorax grey irrorated with black; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey irrorated with black; an indistinct waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, the outer strong, waved, and angled out- wards above inner margin; claviform slightly defined by black above; orbicular and reniform very slightly defined by black and rufous, the former rounded; the postmedial line double, the inner rather strong, slightly sinuous, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by a series of black spots conjoined in places, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing with the basal half whitish bounded by a sinuous medial line, the terminal half fuscous ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia whitish, with fuscous line through them. Hab. Basutotann, Maseru (Crawshay), 1 Q ; Carn Conony, type t 2 in Mus. Stockholm. vp. 38 millim. 176 NOCTUID®. ~ Secr. III. (Evarnis). Antennx of male bipectinate, with short fasciculate branches, the apical part serrate. A. Hind wing white, the terminal area often tinged with brown. a. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area defined by pale dentate marks. w. Claviform large. a*, Claviform elongate, pointed at extremity, filled in’ by dark colounig-cesssecce eee eee enero cena spinifera. b°. Claviform rounded at extremity, defined by black. [ fietilis. a3, Orbicular rounded, reniform large ..... Le acosce obelisca ab. 6°, Orbicular narrow, oblique, reniform small ...... distinquenda. Gy Clavitonmesmel shortieeeseeteeceneseeeeeeeereeececenee christophi. b. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area not defined by pale dentate marks. a’, Fore wing with the veins streaked with white ...... edmondsi. 61, Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white. a’. Fore wing with the costal area ochreous white to the postmedial line. a. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate and pro- ducedittowards'\base! fais. s-cans-5-sceecececseeeeenee: proleuca. 6%, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded............ hastifera. b*, Fore wing without ochreous-white fascia on costal area. a*. Fore wing with well-defined blackish fascia in cell between the stigmata. a‘. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly anpledioutwandsinpcell es nessetrecersseereas lutescens. b*. Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled outwards in cell ............5....-.-- araucarta. b°, Fore wing without well-defined blackish fascia in cell. a‘, Fore wing with the transverse lines present. a, Fore wing with the stigmata well defined. a°, Fore wing with the orbicular large, more or less rounded........ .....-...sece obelisca. 18, Fore wing with the orbicular small. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate and produced to a point ............... radius. i”, Fore wing with the orbictflar rounded or elliptical. a’. Fore wing with the ground-colour erey. a. Kore wing with the subterminal line formed by a series of small dentatemmarksignnssessesdeeene see poliotis. >”, Fore wing with the subterminal line Motidentatess..-s-sseseeeseer aes armend. . Fore wing with the ground-colour more or less tinged with rufous. a®, Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to points on the VGIONST caenoobeRabbosnacone Casocsonches brachypecten. }°®. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate. a, Fore wing with the postmedial line angled inwards in sub- median jfold ~ i..<.-se-s-eseemeee coquimbensis, 61°. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled inwards in sub- median fold i on.an-s.esase: veers Qmericana. EUXOA,. ar b°. Fore wing with the stigmata almost ob- SIGE) congcopansacsdacncccuso écosaccostconoasoenae bogdanovi. b*, Fore wing with the transverse lines obsolete. modlis. B. Hind wing entirely suffused with brown. a. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area defined by Whnihersineaksirserenc ca tin sonec csc ceheaamemeacedcsaeneasseceess panoplias. b. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area not defined by white streaks. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line present. a>, Fore wing with the antemedial line present. a. Fore wing thickly irrorated with black. a*, Fore wing without white annuli tothe stigmata. a°®, Fore wing with the orbicular a small black BOOP pocoodeacucoascocosbsubacsoboc cunpacuGosaecdac epicremna. b°. Fore wing with the orbicular a small AYIAIITE, sodcococebannoneasnacdosondosbanecedondoce mesotora. b4, Fore wing with white annuli to the stigmata. a’. Fore wing with the claviform defined by black#airoxtremlltiyseassencseaesesen nese cee nae baliopa. b5, Fore wing with the claviform obsolete... cwnariensis. 8, Fore wing not thickly irrorated with black. a4, Fore wing with small dentate dark marks before the subterminal line. a>. Fore wing with the stigmata well defined, ; a°, Fore wing with the stigmata large ... .. tibetana. b®. Fore wing with the stigmata small. a’. Fore wing with pale streak on median TATA) oouasooncqaonusscodbaned sasgoponadce equicuspis. b7, Fore wing without pale streak on Median Mer VULC ls accetesececeesssec ce s8> humigena. 2°. Fore wing with the stigmata nearly obsolete. a°. Fore wing with small quadrate blackish spot between the stigmata ..............+ pallidifrons. b°. Fore wing without dark mark between Woe) SKEATEHA) {cocnoceacnnnsroticndecopacosa50¢ cremata. 4, Fore wing without small dentate dark marks before the subterminal line. a. Fore wing wholly suffused and irrorated (iiMlilal WSN) oagonodopedobesueedecocdouueocaKodoudeT spoderopa. b>. Fore wing suffused and irrorated with white except discal area .........,.-0.2ee+ tephrias. ce’. Fore wing without white suffusion. a®. Fore wing with the lines distinct ......... Zucicolens. b®. Fore wing with the lines indistinct ...... cognita. b*. Fore wing with the antemedial line obsolete ...... photophila. }'. Fore wing with the transverse lines obsolete ......... perigramma. 304, Euxoa spinifera. Noctua spinifera, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 389 (1827) ; Herr.- Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 24; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Telmia spinula, Hiibn. Verz, p. 228 (1827). Agrotis biconica, Koll. Hiigel’s Kashmir, iv. p. 480 (1848) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182, & iv. p. 908. Agrotis evigua, Koll. Higel’s Kashmir, iv. p. 481 (1848). Agrotis spiculifera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 266 (1852). Agrotis aristifera, Quen, Noct. i. p. 266 (1852). Agrotis ferina, Feld. Reis, Nov. pl. 110. f. 12 (1874). : Agrotis hodne, Oberth. Et. Ent. iii. p. 45, pl. 5. f. 8 (1878) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. VOL. IV. N 178 NOCTUIDZ. 3. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and a few black scales; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegule with dark medial line; tarsi black, ringed with white ; Fig. 60.—Euxoa spinifera, Gg. 1}. abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous, Fore wing pale ochreous with a violaceous tinge and slight fuscous suffusion, especially on costal area; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous ; an indistinct double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line represented by oblique double strie from costa and a slightly curved line from median nervure to vein 1: the claviform very elongate lanceolate, strongly defined by black and filled in by dark brown; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former elliptical and with its outer edge produced to a point, often open above, the latter often angled inwards on median nervure, a black fascia between them in cell and slight streaks from outer edge of reniform ; the postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, dentate to termen on veins 7, 4, 3, with dentate black marks on its inner side at middle and the area beyond it blackish except towards apex and tornus; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area suffused with ochreous, a fine terminal line on costal half. Q. Usually darker; hind wing with the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with fuscous. Hab, 8. France; Spary; Ivaty; Sicmy; Canarres; Acrers, type t Q hodne in Coll. Oberthur; Eeypr; Errrrea, Massowah (Barker), 1 2 ; Brirtsm Easr Arrica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 16, 1 Q, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 3,2 9, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 g,1°; MasHonatanp, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 g,2 9 ; Transvaat (Ross), 1 go; Narat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 g, 1 2, Durban (Gooch, Leigh), 1 3, 1 Q ; Basurotanp, Maseru (Crawshay), 2 g ; Carr Cotony, typet ¢ ferine in Coll. Rothschild, (A. Smith, Drége) 4 $; Syrm; Persta, Fao (Cumming), 1 ¢ ; Kasumrr, Narkundah (McArthur), 1 $ ; Kuru, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 3,1 9; Punsas, Simla (Swinhoe), 2 2, Kangra (Hocking), 1 $, 7 2, Cambellpur (Yerbury), 3g, Jubbulpore (Butler), 2 9, Manpuri, 1 g, 1 9, Allahabad, 2 9 ; Brneat, Calcutta, 2 2? ; Bompay (Swinhoe), 1 9, Poona, 1 2 ; Niterris (Hampson), 2 9 ; Cryton (Templeton), 1°, Trincomali (Yerbury), 1 ¢, 1 9; Burma, Myngyan (Watson), 19. ep, 26-40 millim. EUXOA. 179 Larva. Mill. Ann. Soc. Lyon, (2) xix. p. 41, pl. 112. ff. 1, 2 (1872). Greenish-grey ; the dorsum ochreous ; dorsal line double, brown; subdorsal line dark; supra- and substigmal lines whitish with darker edges; head and thoracic shield ochreovs. Food-plant, grasses. 305, Euxoa distinguenda. Agrotis distinguenda, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 221 (1857) ; Herr.-Schaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 60-61; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Agrotis aquilina, Boisd. Icones, pl. 77. f. 6 (nee Hiibn.). Agrotis hastifera, Donz. Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr. 1847, pl. 8. f. 2 (nee f. 1). Head and thorax brown mixed with black and grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with fuscous brown ; the subbasal line whitish, defined by black on inner side and angled outwards on median nervure; the antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by whitish on inner side, strongly angled outwards below costa and slightly above inner margin; claviform large, prominently defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former elliptical, oblique, the cell before and between them and the area between reniform and postmedial line suffused with black ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it pale; the subterminal line represented by a series of pale points with dentate black marks on their inner side, the area beyond it suffused by fuscous indented by grey dentate marks defining veins 3, 4, and a patch at apex; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and a fine terminal line brown; the underside with the costa tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. Hab. 8. Franck, Ardéche, 1 92 Zeller Coll.; Swu1irzertanp (Anderegg), 1 3¢ D’Emmick Coll., Valais; Huneary; W. Srperta, Altai. Hep. 34 millim. 306. Euxoa christophi. (Plate LX. fig. 17.) Agrotis christophi, Staud. Berl, ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 110; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Agrotis lugens, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 111. ¢. Head and thorax brown, mixed with grey and black; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale ochreous or grey-brown, the costal area paler except the costa itself to the postmedial line; a black streak below base of cell crossed by an oblique pale striga representing the subbasal line ; the antemedial line obsolete except between subcostal nervure and vein 1, angled inwards on median nervure, then excurved; claviform small, black, or filled in with black, and with a dark streak from it in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the 4 1380 NOCTUID®. cell before and between the stigmata black-brown ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the veins with dark streaks to the sub- terminal line, which is greyish defined by small dentate black marks before its medial part, and the area beyond it fuscous except at apex, the line dentate at veins 7, 6, 4,3; a fine waved terminal black line. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown ; cilia white; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point. Ab. 1. lugens. Fore wing darker and more uniform in colour. ITab. S. Russia, Sarepta, 7 ¢, Zeller and Leech Colls.; W. Turxestan, Fergana. Hap. 34-38 millim. Larva ochreous mottled with brown; dorsal line double, subdorsal and lateral lines indistinct; warts brown; stigmata black; head rufous mottled with brown. 307. Euxoa edmondsi. (Plate LX. fig. 18.) Agrotis edmondsi, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 131. ¢. Head and thorax grey with a brownish tinge; edges of patagia with some black scales ; abdomen white, tinged with brown towards extremity. Fore wing grey, with an ochreous tinge and slightly suffused with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by oblique black strize from costa and below cell; the antemedial line almost obsolete except in submedian interspace where it is black, defined by whitish on inner side and angled in submedian fold, then very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform well- developed, fuscous defined by black; orbicular and reniform fuscous with grey annuli and black outline, the former elliptical, produced on outer side, the latter large; the postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal series of pale dentate marks with black streaks on their inner side, the one above vein 5 extending to the postmedial line, and spots on their outer side; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish, with fine black line near tips. Hind wing pure white, with terminal crenulate black line. ©. Head, thorax, and fore wing more tinged with fuscous ; hind wing suffused with fuscous brown except in, below, and just beyond cell. Hab, Cutrr (Edmonds), 1 3, 1 & type, Taleahuano, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker),2 3,19. Hap. 44 millim. 308. Euxoa proleuca, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 19.) do. Head and thorax fuscous brown, slightly mixed with grey ; tegule with black medial line; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing greyish brown; the costal area ochreous to the postmedial line, with pale brown streaks in the interspaces ; traces of a blackish streak below base of cell; the subbasal and antemedial lines EUXOA. 181 obsolete; claviform slightly outlined with black; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black, the former wedge-shaped and produced towards base, open above, the cell between the stigmata black-brown ; traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; faint traces of a subterminal line with slight black streaks before its medial portion ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. §. Russia, 1 3 type, Leech Coll.; Lwp. 30 millim. 309. Euxoa hastifera. dgrotis hastifera, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 525, pl. &. f. 1 (nec f.2); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. ¢. Head and thorax reddish or blackish brown, mixed with purple-grey ; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brownish ochreous or greyish. Fore wing purplish fuscous brown, with broad ochreous-white costal fascia extending to postmedial line; a black patch below base of cell; an indistinct obliquely curved antemedial line from cell to inner margin; clavi- form moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them black; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the sub- terminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7, and excurved at middle with some small dentate black marks before it at middle; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown; the underside with very slight brown irroration on costal and terminal areas, and a slight discoidal point. Hab. S. France, Digne: Avusrria; Transynvanra; 8. Russia, Sarepta (Christoph), 2 ¢; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus; PErsra; W. Srperra, Altai, 1 S$. vp. 38 millim. 310. Euxoa lutescens. (Plate LX. fig. 20.) Noctua lutescens, Blanch. Gay’s Faun, Chil., Ins. vii. p. 76 (1852). Agrotis blanchardii, Berg, An. Soc. Arg. xiv. p. 281 (1882). ¢. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous, some black at base of palpi, on frons and vertex of head; tegulze with black medial line; patagia ochreous, edged with black and rufous ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, some brown suffusion below base of ceil; a blackish sub- basal line defined by ochreous on outer side from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line dentate below costa and more strongly to the orbicular in cell, then retracted, more prominent from cell to vein 1 and slightly angled in submedian fold, obsolete towards inner margin; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reni- orm small, ochreous defined by black, the former oblique, open 182 NOCLUIDA. above, the lower part of cell between them black ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of small dentate dark marks and a dark patch before it on costa; a terminal series of black poimts. Hind wing semi- hyaline white. @. Fore wing suffused with fuscous brown, leaving a diffused ochreous streak below basal two-thirds of costa and patch at apex. Hab. Cutt1, Valparaiso (J. J. Walker), 1 3, 19. . Exp. 42 millim. Type? 2 in Mus. Paris. 311. Euxoa araucaria, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 21.) ¢. Head and thorax clothed with pale red-brown, fuscous, and grey scales; tegule with black medial line; patagia grey, edged with black and pale brown above; tarsi fuscous, ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing whitish, irrorated and suffused with pale brown; the basal and costal areas suffused with black; a double waved subbasai line from costa to submedian fold: a double waved antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and very strongly above inner margin; claviform moderate, blackish, defined by deep black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small and produced to a point on outer side, a brown fascia in cell between the stigmata ; an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area suffused with brown, with traces of a pale dentate subterminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown; the underside with discoidal point and postmedial series of dark streaks on the veins. Ab. 1. Fore wing pale brownish irrorated with black, but without black suffusion.—Argentina. Hab. Curt, Valparaiso (J. J. Walker), 1 3 type: ARGENTINA, Andes (Fitzgerald), 1 ¢. Hwxp. 40 millim. 312. Euxoa obelisca. Noctua obelisca, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 223 (1776); Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 128; Gedt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 214, pl. 64. f. 3; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 124; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Noctua ruris, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 416 (1827). Noctua praticola, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 567 (1827). Noctua fictilis, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 710 (1827). Agrotis villierstit, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 173, pt. 8. if. 1, 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 532. Agrotis declarans, W1k. x. 347 (1856). » 3d. Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey; tegule with blackish medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing purplish brown, the inner and terminal areas paler; the costal area suffused with white to the postmedial line; a black streak below base of cell ; an indistinct subbasal line curved from EUXOA, 183 costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line from sub- costal nervure to vein 1; claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, grey-white defined by black, their centres slightly defined by brown, the cell before and between them suffused by blackish, the orbicular oblique, elliptical; the postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight dentate dark marks on its inner side, and the area beyond it darker except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 3 and 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal spot. Q. Hind wing with the inner and terminal areas more strongly tinged with brown. Ab. 1. fictilis. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area defined by pale dentate marks. Head, thorax, and fore wing usually much more ochreous. Ab. 2. ruris. Head and thorax much greyer brown; fore wing grey-brown irrorated with dark brown and black; no black below base of cell or in cell; the antemedial line complete and more strongly angled outwards above inner margin; hind wing more tinged and irrorated with brown. Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Mutzell and Zeller Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll.; Spain; Ivaty; Aneerta; S. Russia, 1 o, 1 2, Leech Coll.; Anrwenta; Asta Minor, Pontus; W. Srperra, Altai; W. Turxsstan, Ala Tau; ? Amurtanp; Kasuurr, Kuijar (McArthur), 13, hab. ign., 1 ¢ type declarans. Hwp. 38-40 millim. 313. Euxoa radius. Bombyx radius, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 119 (1803). Noctua lignosa, Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 241, pl. 67. ff. 5, 6 (1821). Noctua erythroxylea, Tr. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 31 (1825). Agrotis radiola, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 119, pl. 20. f. 3 (1827), Noctua puta, Hibn. Samml. Eur, Schimett., Noct. f. 255 (1827); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 243, pl. 67. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Noctua renitens, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 715-717 (1827). Aporophyla catalaunensis, Mill. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1873, p 4; id. Icones, pl. 146. ff. 4, 5. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with pale brown or rufous; the veins with dark streaks ; a more or less developed black streak in basal part of submedian fold; an indistinct double waved subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold, with some black suffusion between it and the double dentate antemedial line which is strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former elongate, usually connected with the reniform, sometimes repre- sented by parallel dark lines ; postmedial line dentate and produced 184 NOCTUID&. to black and white points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line represented by a series of blackish and ochreous dentate marks in the interspaces ; the terminal area darker below apex, a terminal series of black points; cilia ochreous intersected with brown. Hind wing hyaline white or the veins and costal area tinged with brown; a terminal series of points sometimes present. Q. Fore wing suffused with fuscous; hind wing usually pale fuscous brown. Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; France; Guruany, Zeller Coll. ; Sparn, Leech Coll., Gibraltar, 1 ¢ ; Anenurta (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 2; Syrta: Prrsta; W. Turkestan, Turkomania; Moneorta. xp. 32 millim. Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 95; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 804, pl. 125. f. 2. Light fuscous, brownish ochreous above; dorsal line darker, double, traversing a series of freckled spots ; subdorsal line brown, finely pale-edged below ; head and thoracic shield brown. Food- plants : Polygonum, Taraacum, Lactwea. 9-4. 314. Euxoa poliotis, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 22.) 3. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with white; palpi blackish at sides except towards extremity ; tegulee with blackish medial line; tarsi with blackish bands; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with pale brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with pale reddish brown; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian told defined by black ; a similar antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former rather small, round, sometimes connected with the latter by a blackish streak; an indistinct diffused medial shade ; the post- medial line double, the outer dentate and produced to points on the veins, sinuous, incurved in discal and submedian folds; the sub- terminal line pale, minutely dentate, defined by brown suffusion or dentate blackish marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and dentate below middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. @. Head, thorax, and usually the fore wing to the postmedial line darker ; hind wing with the terminal area tinged with fuscous. Hab. Qurrnstinp, Townsville, Ravenswood (Turner), 3 5,3 2 type. Exp., 6 36, 9 42 millim. 315. Euxoa armena. (Plate LX. fig. 23.) Agrotis armena, Ey. Bull. Mose. ii. p. 222 (1856); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Agralis: der eas Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 112; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis obscura, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 1138. g. Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey; tarsi banded EUXOA, 185 with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing grey, irrorated with fuscous ; traces of a dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by fuscous, the former somewhat quadrate; an indistinct oblique medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique; a diffused dark subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white slightly tinged with fuscous, especially towards termen. Ab. 1. obscura. Fore wing almost uniform in colour. Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, 1 ¢, 1 9, (Christoph) 1 S, Zeller Coll. Exp. 40 millim. 316. Euxoa brachypecten. (Plate LX. fig. 24.) Agrotis brachypecten, Hmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 85 (1899). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with a few grey and black scales ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegulee with the basal half darker; tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with ochreous and fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown, suffused in parts with fuscous or grey; a double waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line, strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, fuscous, defined by black; orbicular and reniform greyish with fuscous centres and black outline, the former small, round or ellip- tical, the latter obscured by the diffused blackish medial shade ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, then curved; subterminal line grey, irregularly dentate, with some dentate black marks on its inner side and patch at costa, the area beyond it blackish except at apex and tornus; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins brownish, the termen suffused with fuscous ; the inner area clothed with ochreous hair; the underside with the costal area ochreous, with dark postmedial mark. Hab, Socotra, Adho Dimellus (Grant), 1 3,4 9, Hadibu Plain, 4 g type, Jena Agahan,1 9. wp. 34 millim. 317. Evxoa coquimbensis, n. sp. (Plate LX. fig. 25.) ¢. Head and thorax reddish brown, mixed with whitish and black ; tegulee with slight black medial line: abdomen pale at base, ochreous brown towards extremity. Fore wing red-brown tinged with fuscous; the subbasal line double, black with pale centre, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line similar, angled outwards in cell and very strongly above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform small, pale with slight fuscous centres and pale outline ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and acutely angled inwards below submedian fold ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled 186 NOCTUIDZ. outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; the termen and cilia with fine pale lines. Hind wing semihyaline white. Hab. Curr, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 3 type. Hap. 34 millim. 318. Euxoa americana. (Plate LX. fig. 26.) Luperina americana, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, Ins. vii. p- 77, pl. 4. f. 8 (1852). Head and thorax red-brown, the scales with greyish tips ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with dark brown ; a double, black, pale-centred, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold interrupted in cell; a similar antemedial line angled outwards below costa, in cell and strongly above inner margin, excurved below submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with fuscous centres, rufous annuli, and black outline, the former round ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at middle, with fuscous patch before it at costa and the area beyond it darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of black points. Hab. Cuit1, Valparaiso (J. J. Walker, Edmonds), 4 3, 2 9. Exp. 56 millim. 319, Euxoa bogdanovi. Leucania bogdanovi, Ersch, Fedtsch. Reis. p. 45, pl. 4. f.54 (1874) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. Hiptelia grumi, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 170; id. Rom. Mém. y. es LUGO ols 7 a8 Wh S$. Head and thorax ochreous, slightly mixed with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous; an oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined with rufous, the latter placed on a waved diffused rufous medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique : the terminal area somewhat more suffused with rufous. Hind wing ochreous. Underside of both wings with indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul, 1 g. Exp. 40 millim. 320. Euxoa mollis. (Plate LX. fig. 27.) Agrotis mollis, Staud, Ivis, iv. p. 271 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. ¢$. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, thickly suffused with pale grey-brown ; orbicular and reniform obscurely EUXOA,. 187 defined with ochreous, the former oblique, open above; a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure white, the margins slightly tinged with ochreous. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 ¢, Ferghana. Hwp. 40 millim. 321. Euxoa panoplias. (Plate LX. fig. 28.) Agrotis panoplias, Meyr. Faun, Hawai. i. p. 144 (1899). $. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with white ; antenne with the shaft white at base; tegule darker brown at base ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey and dark brown, Fore wing dark brown suffused with white, leaving dark streaks on the veins and in interspaces towards termen; claviform blackish, defined by deep black extending from base to middle, towards which it expands; a blackish spot on base of costa; the antemedial line blackish, acutely angled outwards below costa and slightly inwards on median nervure and outwards in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform dark brown defined by black, the former elliptical; short black streaks above bases of veins 3 and 2, with a diffused line from them to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; dentate brown patches on terminal area on each side of vein 5 and in submedian interspace; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown; cilia mixed with white and with pale line at base; the underside suffused with grey and with dark discoidal point. Hab, Hawai, Kona (Perkins), 1 $ type. Hap. 40 millim. 322, Euxoa epicremna. (Plate LX. fig. 29.) Agrotis epicremna, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 149 (1899). Head and thorax black-brown, the hairs slightly tipped with grey; pectus with the hair greyer; abdomen black-brown. Fore wing dark brown, thickly irrorated with black; a slightly waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved ante- medial line angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein | ; orbicular represented by a smal] black spot, the reniform by a larger spot with slight pale centre; an indistinct medial shade from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale with dentate dark marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown, darker towards termen; the cilia grey at tips; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, curved postmedial line, and terminal dark band. Hab. Hawa, Haleakala (Perkins), 1 S$, 1 9, type. wp. 46-50 millim, 188 NOCIUID&, 323. Euxoa mesotoxa. (Plate LX. fig. 30.) Agrotis mesotoxa, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 148 (1899). °. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; pectus paler; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with black ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, elliptical, with greyish annulus, the latter wholly dark; a slightly curved and waved medial shade ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line greyish, with small dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing cupreous brown ; cilia grey, with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Hawant, Kona (Perkins), 1 9 type. Fap. 44 millim. 324. Euxoa baliopa. (Plate LX. fig. 31.) Agrotis baliopa, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 149 (1899). Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey: palpi and frons darker, with some ochreous hair; tarsi ‘with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey. Fore wing purplish grey, irrorated and in places suffused with black ; an indistinct, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved black antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform with its extremity defined by black; orbicular and reni- form with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with its lower extremity produced between veins 3, 4, and connected with a white-and-black U-shaped mark below vein 3, the cell between the stigmata blackish ; an indistinct, oblique, waved, medial line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line whitish, with dark patch on its inner side at costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then represented by white points on dentate black marks; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia pale, with brown line near base; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Hab. Hawatt, Haleakala (Perkins), 2 6, 19, type. Hap. 46 millim., *325, Kuxoa canariensis. (Plate LXI. fig. 6.) Agrotis canariensis, Rebel, Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, 1902, p. 59. 6. Head and thorax brown irrorated with bluish grey ; tarsi EUXOA,. 189 banded black and white; abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing bluish grey, irrorated and suffused with dull brown; a slight blackish streak below basal part of cell; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards in cell and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform brown with grey annuli incompletely defined by brown, the former small, somewhat V-shaped, the latter constricted at middle ; traces of a curved medial shade ; postmedial line defined by greyish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, dentate and angled outwards at vein 7, defined by a dark patch before it on costa, the area beyond it darker at middle; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, entirely suffused with brown except parts of interspaces of basal two-thirds ; cilia with brown line near base, the tips white ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous brown, a small prominent discoidal spot and a curved postmedial series of short dark striz on the veins. Hab. Cananres, Teneriffe, Santa Crux, type fT ¢, Grand Canary, 1 2, in Mus. Vienna. wp. 38 millim. 326. Euxoatibetana. (Plate LX. fig. 32.) Agrotis tibetana, Moore, A. M. N.H. (5) i. p. 233 (1878); id. 2nd Yarkand Mission, p. 10, pl. 1. f. 16. Agrotis modesta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 351; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 188. Agrotis monticola, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183 (1894). Head and thorax grey-white pencilled with brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegule with brown medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey- brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform slightly outlined with black; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former rounded, open above, some blackish suffusion in cell between them ; traces of a waved medial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein +, then incurved; the subterminal line greyish, indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it often rather darker; a terminal series of black points: cilia whitish, with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish, with fuscous line at base; the underside ochreous white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a blackish discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings much more distinct. Hab. Lanovtr, 12,000 feet, type fT ¢ monticola in Coll. Elwes ; Len; Kasumrr, 1 9 type modesta, Rajaori (Leech), 2 3, Goorais Valley, 1 g, 3 2, Barra Larcha (Mcdrthur), 1 3, 2 Q. Exp. 38 millim. 190 NOCLUID &. 327. Euxoa equicuspis. (Plate LXI. fig. 8.) Agrotis equicuspis, Staud. Iris. xii. p. 365, pl. 6. f.18 (1899) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black; tarsi with white rings; abdomen grey and dark brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey tinged with reddish brown ; a double subbasal line waved from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line more strongly excurved above inner margin ; clavi- form moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform rather small, grey, defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former round; an indistinct waved medial line ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved in discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the median nervure and bases of veins 2, 3, 4 streaked with grey between the ante- and postmedial lines: the subterminal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, defined on inner side by a fuscous patch at costa and small dentate black marks at middle; the area beyond it dark; a fine terminal crenulate black line; cilia pale brown, with a darker line through them. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal area; cilia pale; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. KB. Turxestan, Thian-Shan Mts.; Moneorra, Urga, 1 6. Exp. 30 millim. *328, Euxoa humigena. (Plate LXIX. fig. 19.) Agrotis humigena, Pingl. Iris, xii. p. 291, pl. 9. f. 1 (1899); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. 6. Head and thorax pale reddish brown thickly irrorated with fuscous; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge, thickly irrorated with fuscous; the lines distinct; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled outwards above inner margin, the claviform a minute spot on its outer edge; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former a small annulus touching or almost touching the antemedial line, the latter large, extending to below cell, its centre defined by fuscous, its outer line rather diffuse and connected with postmedial line by a streak in discal fold; the postmedial line double, dentate, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by a series of pale lunules with small dentate dark marks on their inner side and dark patch at costa, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia paler; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved post- medial line. Hab, Trset, Kuku Nor, type tf ¢ in Coll. Piingeler. Hzxp. 38 millim. EUXOA, 191 329. Euxoa pallidifrons, n. sp. (Plate LXI. fig. 9.) 6. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; frons whitish; palpi blackish ; tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with black ; a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by black and with a black spot between them ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing pale fuscous, the cilia ochreous white; the underside ochreous white, with slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Q. Head and thorax pale ochreous brown; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform rather more distinct. Hab. C. Asta, 1 3,1 9, type Leech Coll. Hap. 38 millim. 330. Euxoa cremata. (Plate LXI. fig. 10.) Spelotis cremata, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xvii. p. 8 (1880). Head and thorax grey mixed with black; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegule with black medial line with rufous before it; abdomen fuscous mixed with grey, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous and slightly tinged with rufous ; a double dentate subbasal black line filled in with whitish, from costa to submedian fold; a similar antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin, inwards on median nervure and excurved below cell ; claviform and orbicular almost obsolete ; reniform represented by a minute black annulus with streak above it in male; an indistinct medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a whitish subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and defined by small dentate black marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia white at tips; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a smail discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of short strie. Hab. Hawarr, Maui (Blackburn), 1 g type, Oahu, 19. Hep, 48 millim. Larva. Blackburn, Eat. Mo. Mag. xix. p. 56. Lather broad and depressed, especially near the head where it is rather swollen; pale drab, the dorsal area, except on first and last somites, with blackish patches decreasing in size towards extremity ; thoracic shield testaceous edged with black; head testaceous ; spiracles black; legs and prolegs tipped with blackish. Food- plant, a marine plant on sand-hills ; hiding in the sand by day. 192 NOCTUID. 331. Euxoa spoderopa. (Plate LXI. fig. 11.) Agrotis spoderopa, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 148 (1899). S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey: a white line behind tegule ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous, suffused almost wholly with grey-white, sometimes slightly on costal half to postmedial line; a slight dark streak in basal half of submedian fold ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, defined by white on inner side; a waved dark antemedial line defined by white on inner side, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1; orbicular small, white, defined by brown and produced to a point on outer side, sometimes with brownish centre ; reniform with brownish centre and grey annulus defined by brown ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; sub- terminal line defined by brownish suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown ; the underside, whiter, with indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Hawan, Maui, Haleakala (Perkins), 2 3 type. Ewp. 44 millim. 332. Euxoa tephrias. (Plate LXI. fig. 12.) Agrotis tephrias, Meyr. Faun, Hawai. i. p. 147 (1899). 3. Head and thorax reddish and dark brown mixed with grey ; tegule with dark medial line with some rufous before it and some- times a white line behind them; abdomen fulvous brown. Fore wing blackish brown, suffused and irrorated with white except on medial area between subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; a waved white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a sinuous dark ante- medial line defined by white on inner side, acutely angled inwards on median nervure and strongly outwards above inner margin; orbicular small, elliptical, white defined by brown; reniform small, with brownish centre and grey annulus defined by brown; the post- medial line dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line defined by brownish, suffused on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; a fine terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown ; the underside whiter, with sinuous postmedial punctiform line. Hab, Hawa, Kauai, Mt. Waimea, 2 ¢, Koholuamauo (Perkins), 1 ¢ type. Hep. 40 millim. 333. Euxoa lucicolens. (Plate LXI. fig. 13.) Spelotis luctcolens, Butl. E, M. M. xvii. p. 7 (1880). 3. Head fuscous brown; thorax ochreous brown, the hairs tipped with grey; tarsi blackish above; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing BUXOA. 193 pale grey-brown slightly irrorated with black; the subbasal line represented by black points on costa and median nervure ; an indis- tinct waved antemedial line with black points on the veins; hardly a trace of orbicular or reniform stigmata; postmedial line dentate and produced to black points on the veins; faint traces of a sub- terminal line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, more ochreous towards inner margin; the underside ochreous white, with traces of a postmedial line on costal area. Hab, Hawai, Honolulu (Blackburn), 1 $ type. wp. 44 millim. *334. Euxoa cognita. (Plate LXIX. fig. 17.) Agnotis cognita, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 417; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; tegule with black medial line; prothoracic crest black towards tip; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with dark brown ; traces of a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, waved: claviform indicated by a few black scales; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by black scales ; a medial shade angled at median nervure ; an indistinct pale dentate subterminal line, slightly defined by brown on inner side, more distinctly towards costa ; a fine slightly waved black terminal line; cilia fuscous with a pale line at base. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside greyish, the costal area irrorated with brown, traces of postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab. W. Turkestan, Samarkand, in Coll. Oberthur, Ala Tau. Exp. 36 uillim. 335. Euxoa photophila. (Plate LXI. fig. 14.) Leucania photophila, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 269 (1879). $. Ochreous. Fore wing slightly irrorated with fuscous; an indistinct deptate postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the cilia pale ochreous ; the underside ochreous white. Hab. Hawaii, Honolulu (Blackburn), 1 3 type. Hwp.40 millim. 336. Euxoa perigramma. (Plate LXI. fig. 15.) Agrotis perigramma, Meyr. Faun, Hawai. i. p. 145 (1899). 3g. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with white ; pectus and legs grey and brown; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft with an ochreous tinge. Fore wing fuscous brown suffused with grey; claviform defined by black extending from base to middle; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former elliptical, the latter indistinct ; the interspaces towards termen with VOL, IV. 0 194. NOCTUID. slight dark streaks. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia with ochreous line at base; the underside paler, with slight discoidal point. Hab. Hawa, Kilauea (Perkins), 1 3 type. Hap. 42 millim. Seer. IV. (Huxoa), Antenne of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing narrow, the costa somewhat concave. a. Fore wing without dentate black marks before the subterminal: lime) Aes eeeeceeceeeu se enero tenes vilsont, 6. Fore wing with dentate black marks before the sub- terminal slin6)» 3.0) caeceesetec Osea eae encase eee lacunosa. B. Fore wing broader, the costa more arched. a, Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 6, 7 defined by pale streaks strongly indenting the subterminal line. a, Hind wing white, the terminal area sometimes suffused with brown, especially in female; fore wing pale. a*. Fore wing with the stigmata and submedian fascia cleariyellow \ientecneten eel teerncassbaec cae cece eee cicatricosa. b*. Fore wing with the stigmata and submedian fascia ochreous white. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate and con- fluent with the reniform. a. Tegule without medial black line; fore wing with the cell suffused with rufous ............... subspinifera. b*, Tegule with medial black line; fore wing with the cell suffused with black ....................-.-. insertans, 83. Fore wing with the orbicular somewhat V-shaped, open above. a’, Fore wing tinged with rufous .................. «. neomexicana. 6+, Fore wing not tinged with rufous...............66 recula. c®. Fore wing with the orbicular oblong. a4, Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with reddish Le) HO! Neca emdopcan: veraadaaccaoacapceoce candaudsercanoane segregata, o*. Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with fuscous. a. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, oblong. brevipennis. 6°. Fore wing with the orbicular short. ............ letificans. d3. Kore wing with the orbicular rounded, entire. a*, Tegulee with the basal half ochreous or grey. a. Hipd wing with terminal dark line and Slrgtishad e:casseusciees-oveeene eeeasseeeee rere pugionis. °. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with jbroyemlss:wefsecese ses raecte seaecee cacao ceeeee quadridentata. bts Tegules concolorous pesos: sae eeieene rene eseaeeeneee niveilined, 6‘. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. a>. Kore wing with the orbicular narrow, oblique. a®, Fore wing with the cell suffused with black ... oblongistigma. b°, Fore wing with the cell not suffused with black. a‘, Thorax with prominent white band ............ olivalis. 6*. Thorax without white band ........... sists seats plagigera.. b°. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, entire. a®, Fore wing with the markings white............... ridingsiana, 6°, Fore wing with the markings ochreous white... flavidens. b. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 6, 7 not defined by whitish indenting the subterminal line. a‘. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. a°, Kore wing without medial shade. a°, Tegule with prominent black medial line or shade. EUXOA. 195 a‘. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata confluent, dark streaks in the inter- spaces. a. Fore wing with white streaks on the veins... béclavis. &. Fore wing with dark streaks on the veins. a°, Fore wing with pale apical patch and streak in submedian interspace...............-.2.-+++- atristrigata, 6°. Fore wing without pale apical patch and streak in submedian interspace. a’. Kore wing with the grey costal area de- fined by brown suffusion below ............ hollemant. o*. Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a, Head, thorax, and fore wing. reddish brown irrorated with black ......... ...... collocata, 68, Head, thorax, and fore wing fuscous MORO ENTE | yall NYAS) 7 up scuorbeceeceBeaeedeec nevada. b', Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not confluent. a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform well-defined. a°. Fore wing with the claviform well-defined. a’. Kore wing with white streak on median nervure; hind wing white.................. acuminifera. 6", Fore wing without white streak on median nervure ; hind wing brown. a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line almost touching TRNKOWIs “peagenasee . submolesta. 63, Fore wing with the postmedial line well separated TPLOMMENULOLTM ss: seen ese eee eer procellaris, 68. Fore wing with the claviform obsolescent. a’. Head, thorax, and fore wing fuscous irrorated with grey. az Rennes meadish) ati baseeencc.-ss.ee sess aces Jlaviscapula, 8. Tegulee fuscous at base. a. Fore wing with the stigmata defined by black. a°, Hind wing pure white .................. candida. 6°, Hind wing tinged with fuscous ...... sponsa. 6°. Fore wing with ochreous annuli to SUTPATI EAI BR bocvanabonpeccueeet ue usc encnchaemee loya. 67, Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous IDEOWAIE: sence perocmnsenecosane sta eenice teaieies = bicollaris. b°, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform almOstrabsoletGteem ere tossescceaseceecseseee aces excogita. 6%. Tegule without well-defined medial black line or shade. a‘. Fore wing fuscous grey to black @. Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing with pale annuli to stigmata ; eolorin’ BIRO RS Sias7 teaeene oat ceeass tee aes vee net punetigera. b6. Fore wing with the stigmata defined by blackish. at’. Fore wing purplish fuscous................... .. perpolita, b*. Fore wing brownish fuscous. a>. Fore wing with the subbasal and terminal BLOUS RUAhYAOLO WIM parse esse cates. tes eee Jinis. 6°, Fore wing with the subbasal and terminal ALCAG!COBCOLOLOUSY seternesse eset eres. onde perfusca, ce’, Fore wing with the stigmata almost obso- lete; colour fuscoUs Prey .c.c2.crccnseseesees Sumalis, 02 196 NOCTUIDZ. 6°, Hind wing white, the terminal area only suffused with brown. a®. Fore wing black, the stigmata clearly de- fined, 5.00.5. dave ne ccigostse = cen re cece Reeth nme v8. Fore wing fuscous, the stigmata obscurely defined |... soiassssidasesncee sav enon deen tteeees cas teatdes Fore wing fuscous or dull reddish brown. a°®. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, ellip- tical. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines denned bysereyanereseesse ee ceeaes L®. Fore wing with thelante- and postmedial jhnes motidefined! by ereyy Ge.v-e+ssssnee-eeccee 6°. Fore wing with the orbicular round. a®. Fore wing fuscous brown, stigmata without Wihitisbyafiniilikess see eeese ee ceeeeeree sence rea tasee b®. Fore wing reddish, stigmata with whitish annuli. a’, Hind wing of male white ...................-. 67, Hind wing of male brown................----- c°. Fore wing black-brown; stigmata small, + A101 1S) Pesce caaeoosnenecrpaascanctcnnncooncanscsOaee c*. Fore wing rufous irrorated with black. a>. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged With tUScOUS 224-243. men dont cee en ener nas »°, Hind wing ochreous white, irrorated with FUSCOUS® . Jaascseensaineeclemresereeediaeienanesineweweoeeees d4, Fore wing rufous without black irroration. a. Fore wing with the stigmata defined by black. 6°, Fore wing with the stigmata faintly defined by auhpeouse eect ee ee neue aoe wing ochreous with a fulvous tinge. . Fore wing with the lines prominent, strongly dentate ...... optiadonadbo sone spsesoddese 7 osenStcons . Fore wing with the lines indis tinct, slightly dentate. Fore wing with the postmedial line entire, FSiQt7 (Ci eededanbaadacs Gaccoquedcodaadonenadobgeccane b°, Fore wing with the postmedial line repre- sented by a double series of points on the NASI par npooodeacanosssonou RS ecHeESdeessacpocesodded J+. Fore wing ochreous brown more or less tinged with fuscous .--... soucnse aa ppcidaoigsasadodsseudse - Fore wing pule yellow .............. soegetnee ance -_ Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. . Fore wing more or less tinged with rufous. 3 Hind wing white with brownish terminal VAG, os sereiecreicisn olde serajecterie oieleMarerisivet cine Mauceeeirsls 6°, Hind wing white, the terminal area suf- fusediwithefiscous\ec-es-ceee setae eeereeea ee c§, Hind wing mcre or less wholly tinged with fuscous. a’. Fore wing rather long and narrow. a®, Fore wing with the stigmata whitish, prominent. a’, Fore wing with the subterminal line irregularly SIMUOUS!. Eeveadusceeencemeneceaee o°, Kore wing with the subterminal line MOLE CVEN .o.c.nccewneceesneenaeeeeeee rene ae b°, Kore wing with the stigmata concoloro: 1s, indistinet eahibvels'« auaiviasiang othoeteemien ce seston eoemeeries v7, Kore wing shorter and broader Aparna heen velleripennis. atomaris. adumbrata. atrofuscd. stigmatilis. gagates. dianthecie. Salclandica. misturata. merens. robiginosa, exculta. cursoriodes. heringi. serricornis. eremioides. citricolor. farinosa. remota, infracta. detersa. luteola. tetrica. EUXOA. oo wing without rufous tinge. . Fore wing with the stigmata defined by blackish. Fore wing with the antemedial line double, a’, Fore wing with the terminal area dark... b°. Fore wing with the terminal area con- colorous. . Fore wing grey-brown ............. saosogce Fore wing lutbeous prey <22-..-..0- oS "Hore wing with the antemedial line single. . Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly dentate ess eta ee 6’. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely lentes tas ecncyecchoonnecnens b®. Fore wing with pale annuli to the stigmata. a’. Fore wing with luteous centres to the stigmata. s, Palpi with black spot at sides; tarsi ringed with! black ......2.0.......0.-e+ce--00 bY, Palpa without black spot at sides; tarsi not ringed with black............4.-.....---. ve Fore wing with the stigmata concolorous, . Fore wing grey irrorated with brown a Fore wing “ochreous grey, the stigmata | indistinct. . Fore wing with the lines distinct......... Fore wing with the lines indistinct ...... : Hee wing leaden grey, with prominent WlutISIA, {anEMARTAES) “GeboooGacdseeHsooscqacec6OC os (Hore wing with medial shade. . Thorax clothed with hair only, prothorax with- out distinct crest. at, Hind wing of male whitish or yellowish, in female more or less suffused with brown. a. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish or fuscous grey. a®, Fore wing strongly irrorated and marke WA To)KoyOT IEC «coon deaaononnecoancodendueceD0000 b®. Fore wing slightly tinged with rufous ...... c6, Fore wing irrorated and marked with fuscous. a’, Fore wing with the stigmata not defined by black. a*. Kore wing with pale annuli to the stigmata ........ ndbsaneUenonAbensa0eD ceogoconer b°. Kore wing with the stigmata obsolete v7, Fore wing with the stigmata defined by ,_ Diack. . Fore wing tinged with red .............--+ Fore wing not t tinged yia\edsel Goorsenoeeer. °. Tore wing ochreous suffused with brick-red . ©, Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish luteous irrorated WithehiUSCOUStees.cenee-nacce - d*, Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous brownish. a®, Head and thorax ochreous white with hardly a trace of fuscous ...... te itase. Ratan Ge eae v®, Head and thorax strongly irrorated with AUSCOUB havestecndichwaderaetes cee PRE TR Meth «tt fulda, nevula. Terjiessa. detesta. homicida. contagionis. tronella. confusa. subdecora. acornis. birivia. c@nis. reluxd. vulpine. bostoniensis. sessile. testula. tocoye. audentis. medialis. Ffeniseca. 19 198 NOCTUIDAE. . Hind wing suffused with brown in both sexes. a, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform distinct. a®. Fore wing pale brownish grey. a’, Fore wing irrorated with black ............ i”, Fore wing irrorated with pale fuscous...... d6. Fore wing pale bluish grey ... c®, Fore wing pale fuscous suffused with pale ellOw sccse-p awsctasemee ecwencues d®. Fore wing pale luteous. a’. Fore wing suffused with grey b7, Fore wing tinged with rufous e’. Fore wing ‘dark grey, the reniform narrow. J%. Fore wing red-brown, the reniform large... v. Fore wing with the orbicular ‘and reniform obsolescent. a°’, Fore wing ferruginous and black, the lines approximateds even) e.-c.-csstaccesesascenee ae b°. Fore wing more uniform reddish, the lines well separated, the postmedial line strongly crenulate 2. cosgseaceesncoackes sees ostes een os c®, Fore wing ochreous yellow irrorated with EUSCOUS Hens fe tee ciecen sont tialse coe Beaoeemceaee 6°, Thorax clothed with hair and scales nixed ; prothorax with distinct crest. a‘. Fore wing with transverse striz. a. Meru ee black ab PAase,cecssce-veceeecseceerese cceris Oe lesmisemotplacksathy ace meraesesace cerita sace b+. Fore wing without transverse striz. Repulse iblacktatsbaseweeensseace ceed eeeceoreee b. Tegulze not black at base. a°, Fore wing with the basal half grey, the ter- minal half suffused with black. a. Size 44 mill.; fore wing with the basal and terminal areas strongly contrasting . v7, Size 86 mill.; fore wing with the basal and terminal areas slightly contrasting... b*. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas pale rufous, the medial area grey... c® Fore wing concolorous. a. Fore wing with more or less prominent pale streak on median nervure ............ b7, Fore wing without pale streak on median nervure. a*. Fore wing dark reddish brown to fuscous brown. a®, Hind wing almost entirely white in male. 6°. Hind wing brown, pale towards base. a'®, Tegule with-more or less prominent dark mediulilime yee sscmsaeecscaseees eer Ree without medial dark line. . Head, thorax, and fore wing fuscous DKON A cpacascatooontoc SpbabAsaasnasnscno0d8 6. Head, thorax, and fore wing deep TREGEOMRONM pocondinsonbobensnocatoroasccbe e, Hind wing uniformly suffused with brown. a. eeu with distinct medial black line. . Fore wing tinged with rufous......... on Fore wing tinged with purplish ...... a by oes without medial black line. . Fore wing with the claviform slightly defined, the medial shade indistinct. grisescens. decora. simplonia. culiinicola, vallus. luteosita. extranca, trifasciat a, bifasciata. COWRLOSA. dacota. brocha. t7Ux, psanmophea. sculptilis. dedala. murdoci. cursorid. friabilis. nigricans. nyctopis. intrita. rubcfactalis. holoberba. intolerabilis, EUXOA. 4, Fore wing with the claviform obso- lete, the medial shade distinct ...... b°. Fore wing grey-brown to grey or yellowish. a®. Fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous, a, Fore wing with well-defined series of dark dentate marks before the sub- terminal line. a“, Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, lilip tical encemaeccncss cease eet }1, Fore wing with the orbicular round. }'°, Fore wing without well-defined series of dentate dark marks before the subterminal line. a, Hind wing wholly white. a‘, Fore wing with the stigmata almost Obsoletekeesteass-eercn ste asaecaeace ace b, Fore wing with the stigmata well delineds Peeaenesteta-errecactcosoa-eese b'!, Hmd wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with brown. a2, Fore wing with the markings dis- tinct. a3, Fore wing with the lines strong ... >, Fore wing with the lines fine. a, Fore wing with the postmedial line prominently dentate ......... }4, Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate ............ b'2, Fore wing with the markings almost Obsoletelencass:aeeteascacaeeeeee see e- cl, Hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with brown. a, Fore wing with the claviform well- defined. a3, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform with pale annuli......... b'8, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform without pale annuli b'2, Fore wing with the claviform repre- sented by a few black scales, the lines double. a, Fore wing grey-brown .............+ b13, Fore wing leaden-grey .........--.++ c?, Fore wing with the claviform ob- solete. a3, Kore wing with the lines double... 13, Fore wing with the lines single ... b®, Fore wing with or without slight dark irroration. a, Hind wingalmost wholly white in male. a, Fore wing reddish yellow without dark irroration. a?, Fore wing with the lines distinct. a‘, Tegule with medial dark line ...... 48, Tegule without medial dark line . }'2, Fore wing with the lines indistinct. a, Fore wing with the orbicular ob- SOLGLCvenceestesactas saacaeacectomlac dere ice b, Fore wing with the orbicular re- presented by a pale annulus ...... b", Fore wing whitish luteous ............ 199 brevirami. conspicud. septentrionalis. milis. perturbata. objurga:a. MeSSOTUA. tritici abs. siligi- [nis & eruta. atropulverea. hilaris. MiCrOn?:X. terrend. laggane. ontario, quinguelined. itodes. pedalis. telebca. rectictncta. Salerina. 3) 00 NOCTUID_E. cl, Fore wing ochreous with dark irro- TatlON [3.3.5 seeds snes seca eeeee Reness d'!. Fore wing grey with dark irroration. a'*, Fore wing with the orbicular ob- lique, elliptical. a3, Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with fuscous ............... b'8. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with fuscous ......... aan one 01°, Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with brown. a‘, Frons with dark transverse line. aw, Kore wing whitish ochreous ........ : 6'?, Fore wing creamy grey ............0+ v4. Frons without dark transverse line. a’, Forewing with the claviform slightly defined by black. a\’, Fore wing with black streak below baserof-cell ee Se eee ee b'%. Fore wing without black streak below base’ of: cell! 22.-2.2eeeeceece- )**, Fore wing with the clavitorm obso- lete. a, Fore wing with the lines fine. a’*, Fore wing with the postinedial line incurved below vein 4 ...... b'4. Fore wing with the postmedia! line oblique below vein 4......... b'. Fore wing with the lines strong ... c’®, Hind wing wholly tinged with brown. a, Fore wing tinged with reddish or ochreous. a’, Kore wing with the lines distinct. a'*, Fore wing with the medial shade prominent. a, Fore wing with the terminal area dark. a. Fore wing tinged with ochreous. b”, Fore wing tinged with reddish . b. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous ..... Sper Mesonoeccacsed 6°, Fore wing with the medial shade indistinct. a'*, Fore wing triangular. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform with dark centres 05, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform without dark centres . b'4. Fore wing long and narrow ...... b'*. Fore wing with the lines indistinct. a, Fore wing tinged with reddish ... b'8. Fore wing ochreous grey ......... BcD b, Fore wing brownish grey .............. b'. Kore wing with the cell black or dark between the stigmata. a’, Fore wing with the transverse lines distinct and prominently defined by grey............ Senn fondsce Uv, Fore wing with the transverse lines distinct, single; ground-colour grey. a®, Fore wing with the medial area suffused with blackish q)7t.e. . Pectus with the hair blackish ................-. c?, Fore wing with the transverse lines double, rarely cbsolete. a, Kore wing without black streak below base of cell. a4, Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish whites. ee. sedanGanidone Do aaEdosngaueanoonoanoooonesEaas b'. Fore wing with the ground-colour ‘bright blue- “QUCY ee ceeeeeeee cesses eeeeeeeeeeeteeteenternrrnss . Fore wing with the cround-colour pale grey ish YOLLOW oo. .eeeseeeeeeseeeeeceseeeneeeeeeceteneeresess see Fore wing with the eround-colour pale rufous. +, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown to purplish red-brown or blackish. Hind wing entirely suffused with brown. a. anor wing with the orbicular open above. . Fore wing with the basal area not whitish. a*, Fore wing with the cell emg tinged with black. a, Fore wing with the orbicular elliptical, defined by black below. a, Kore wing with whitish annuli to the stigmata dongoosoges Uvlaimielee Hs\eie.e(e/ele »siei¥ oes == 0, Fore Wing with grey-brown annuli to the stigmata Reece ge mastisetciasuscoetle . Fore wing with the orbicular oblong, open. below...... BSCE cada neon babhaeeeeaeHadae . Fore wing with the cell distinctly suffused with black. a’, Wore wing brown. 10 Fore wing grey-brown, the medial ALCAICONCOLONOUS weber eoasersseraccce ess °, Fore wing brown, the medial area GET astsboreabocsdouonocasospeccuapecdeds o®, Fore wing purplish red irrorated with rey. a, Kore wing with reddish annuli to the stigmata sect cee enaeereereueeenecsccecessrees : b'°, Fore wing with whitish annuli to the SIV ETM ANTE, aoonecoqaoeaedueboenosecopoGbedeooor c®, Fore wing ferruginous red...............+. : 47, Fore wing with the basal area whitish v°, Fore wing with the orbicular not open above. a’. 'Tegule without dark band. Fore wing with the colour ferruginous ... +°. Hore wing with the colour grey ........... . v7, Tegulz with blackish band. w. Fore wing with the cell slightly tinged with black. a®, Fore wing with the veins streaked with black, the interspaces with brown ...... >”, Fore wing with the veins and interspaces not streaked. w°, Teeule with the basal half black ...... 201 tristicula. MUNIS. dissona. vetusta. malts. enteridis, alticola. Cariosa. infausta. megastigima. noctuiforinis. basiflava. negritt. collata. levis. basdlis. solitaria. rend. melanoneura, austaled, ho iS bo NOCTUIDA, b'. Tegule witli black medial line. ll Fore wing slightly irrorated with black. a*, Kore wing with the terminal area CONCOLOTOUS BEee ee eee ee eee eee eee satis. b'°, Fore wing with the terminal area blacleishi s37-casan eee eee see nostra. Fore wing strongly irrorated with blaekce 25 Ae ora ete ete nee reuda. b°, Fore wing with the cell prominently black. a’. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the ground-colour, strongly tinged with purplish, and the thorax usually Withytedis 5: hassedeucsanaeecbae estas sess es decolor. 09, Fore wing with the medial area con- colorous; thorax greyer, not tinged with red. a'°. Fore wing not irrorated with white, the stigmata not filled in with white ... d¢essedlata. 10. Fore wing partly irrorated with white, the stigmata filled in with white...... intrusa. }°, Wind wing of male white with brown terminal line, of female wholly suffused with brown. albipennis. ce’, Hind wing of both sexes white, the terminal area tinged with brown. i®. Fore wing lilacine grey. a’, Kore wing not irrorated with brown ...... verticalis. i7, Fore wing irrorated with brown ............ reCussa. b°, Fore wing red-brown suffused with grey ... eotelis. c°. Forewing dark red-brown tinged with fuscous. ¢é¢wbatis. d®. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with brown. “’. Fore wing with the claviform defined at extremity Only; cecugaececansesueeeteerech cue pallipennis, . Fore wing with the claviform prominently Garke, £.t5.bap. ccaucsaeecedseees hispidula. d°, Wind wing entirely white ... biliturata. b%. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. ', Fore wing without brown streaks in the inter- spaces. a, Fore wing without ochreous and black fasciv in discal and submedian folds. a°, Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous to purplish red. a‘. Kore wing with the costal area concolorous. a*, Fore wing not suffused with fuscous. a®. Hxpanse 42-46 mill. ............. Ee ein asee ochrogaster. 62) Eixpanse. 20-42 milly ssseseserteceeeseemerer triticiab. aquilina. Fore wing suffused with fuscous... ob", Fore wing with the costal area whitish to , postmedial hhne. . Fore wing without whitish streaks from claviform and before subterminal line... obe/iscoides. B®. Fore wing with whitish streaks from claviform and before subterminal line. . Expanse 44- #0 (adh Seasaaeocsésscs enor oodece excellens. io Expanse 26-42 mill. ...........0s.seeeeee Bo IAG b°, Fore wing with “the ground-colour orey- brown to erey. a’, Forewing with the orbicular oblique, oblong. a*, Fore wing with the black streak below , cell and black in cell prominent. . Hind wing ochreous white............. pindar. . Hind wing tinged with fuscous............ idahoensis. compressipcennis. EUXOA. 203 b3, Fore wing with the black streak below cell and black in cell slight. a. Fore wing with the median nervure streaked With grey ...........:sscee0e-. factoris. 6°, Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked with grey ...... Jadlosessaseneee .. jeminalis. ee wing with the orbicular V- shaped. . Fore wing without oblique ochreous streak from end of claviform; hind wing wholly suffused with brown......... furtiva. 4°, Fore wing with oblique ochreous streak from end of claviform ; hind wing yel- lowish white towards base....-............. vanidica. ce’, Fore wing with the orbicular round or oblique, elliptical. a’. Fore wing with the lines obsolete. Fore wing with the orbicular open above. basigramina. Fore wing with the orbicular entire...... afusa. b*. Fore wing with the lines present. a®. Hind wing of male white, the termen very slightly tinged with brown......... vitta. . Hind wing of male whitish, the terminal area suffused with brown. a°, Fore wing with more or less promi- nent pale streak on median nervure . islandica. 10. Fore wing without pale streak on median nervure. a, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- -brown, a, Kore wing with pale annuli to the StIgMatA ......0eeeeeeeeeeeeee debtsceacboe henrictta. b, Fore wing without pale annuli to the stigmata ................... Saeeasens (QLUencs bU. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. Fore wing with the lines prominent. a’, Tegule white with black tips ...... vestermanit. U'3, Teguls rufous at base ....... ceveceee Camis. Cues Tegule not rufous at base............ tessedloides, b'2, Fore’ wing with the lines almost obsolete. a'?, Tegule grey at base .................. si/ens. b1, Teoule ochreous at base ...... meena) SCLEIS. c?, Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. «'°, Fore wing with prominent white streak on median nervure. a, Fore wing with the reniform not pro- duced inwards on median nervure. a, Fore wing rufous............... Ropoagode divergens. }'?, Kore wing blackish mixed with grey. ordica. b'!, Fore wing with the reniform produced inwards on median nervure and con- fluent with orbicular or nearly so... fusimacula. }'°, Fore wing without white streak on median nervure. a, Tegule blue-grey with carmine medial line ............ Sonnncrigopancocece aa Bikeh b, Tecule blue-grey at base, rufous at liI))3) agooenqocosobedecueoonoAes sevceeececee ~ TEAUNICULE. Tegulz not blue-grey at base. a, Kore wing with the area between postmedial and subterminal lines prominently pale .......:.scoee. acutifrons. 204 NOCTUID®. b™, Fore wing with the postmedial area nearly concolorous) see-eeseaeeeen eee striqilis. d*. Fore wing with the orbicular obsolete...... servita. ®. Kore wing with ochreous and black fascis in discal and submedian folds.................. pictifuscia, b'. Fore wing with brownstreaksin the interspaces. @. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform JKSS12) 01 G8 ere cncossoqoaoSeligdotocdd=canadquecbonOneOn. axiliodes. °. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform Obsolete, : assessed eens Meee ee ree eee lineifera. 337. Euxoa vilsoni. (Plate LXI. fig. 16.) Agrotis wilsonit, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. i. p. 135, pl. 4. f. 3 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 88. Agrotis specialis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. ii. p.62 (1874) ; id. Ill. Essay, 54, pl. 2. £. 14 (1882). Agrotis equalis, Hary. Can, Ent. viii. p. 36 (1876). Head and thorax varying from grey-brown to chestnut; palpi with black mark on side.of 2nd joint; legs with black hair mixed ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey-brown, often tinged with chestnut except costal area ; an oblique subbasal grey striga below cell; the antemedial line obsolete towards costa, angled inwards on median nervure, strongly excurved in submedian interspace, then acutely angled outwards to inner margin, or obsolete; the orbicular and reniform grey often edged with black and with fuscous centres, the former oblique, elliptical, or with its lower extremity produced ; the claviform outlined with black, moderate; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 6, strongly inwards at vein 5, then dentate, the area beyond it more or less tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area rather deeper ; cilia white; underside whitish, the costal area and termen irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal spot. Ab. 1. specialis. Head, thorax, and ground-colour of fore wing bright chestnut-red. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, California, 2 ¢,3 9°, type ¢ specialis and @ type, and type wqualis, S. Francisco, 1 ¢. Exp. 44 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). Head 3:6 mm., pale brown, reticulations very obscure, paler than the ground-colour, vertical band obsolete above and below, existing as a dash beside the clypeus; body green, lined with white; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines rather narrow, straight, transversely cut into blotches ; substigmatal line broad, obscurely double, narrowly green-centered. Feet pale; spiracles black. Feeds on plants near the sea-coast.—H.G. D. 338, Euxoa lacunosa. (Plate LXI. fig. 17.) Agrotis lacunosa, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 88. 3. Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi with some black at sides; frons with black band; tegule with black bard; pectus, EUXOA, 905 legs, and abdomen grey-white, the legs streaked with black, the tarsi banded with black, and the abdomen dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a rufous tinge; a sinuous black streak on median nervure from base to the antemedial line which is obsolescent towards costa and inner margin, angled inwards on median nervure, then excurved and with the claviform stigma on its outer edges, this being either vitta-shaped with black outline or small and solid; the orbicular well-developed, oblique, with black outline ; the reniform well-developed, with pale line inside its black outline; the postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, strongly excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique; an obscure dentate subterminal line bent inwards at veins 5, 6, and with four dentate black marks on its inner edge, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous; a crenulate black terminal line; a fine pale line at base of cilia, which are grey pencilled with fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins and termen brown; underside with discoidal point, the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., California, 2 ¢ Grote Coll. type. Hap. 40 millim. 339. Euxoa cicatricosa. (Plate LXI. fig. 18.) Agrotis cicatricosa, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 492, pl. 3. f. 4 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 88. @. Head and thorax white; the vertex of head and terminal part of tegule tinged with fawn-colour, the thorax slightly tinged with purplish grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing grey-brown ; a white fascia below costa, to which it extends near base, tapering to a point beyond middle; some blackish antemedial and postmedial points on costa; a rounded black-edged yellowish spot below base of cell with its outer edge somewhat indented below median nervure; claviform a small black vitta and a small vitta with yellowish before it on inner margin; the orbicular and reniform yellowish, the former somewhat V-shaped, the latter large, prominent ; an oblique yellowish fascia below vein 2 from middle of median nervure to subterminal line ; the postmedial line formed of small dentate black marks, shghtly angled outwards at vein 6, then oblique ; whitish streaks on veins 3, 4 from cell to the indistinct dentate subterminal line, where they form two stronger teeth; a broad yellowish band between the postmedial and subterminal lines bent outwards to apex; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish white, with a few brown-tipped scales. Hind wing white, the veins and medial part of termen sometimes tinged with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 2, Grote Coll., California ( Walsinghum), 1@Q. Exp. 30-34 millim., 340. Euxoa subspinifera, n. sp. (Plate LXI. fig. 19.) ¢. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with white; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with pale brown. 206 NOCTUID®. Fore wing whitish, suffused with yellow-brown above submedian fold, in end of cell and above veins 2 to 6; the veins with slight dark streaks; the costa irrorated with fuscous with double dark striz representing the subbasal, ante- and postmedial lines, and some white points towards apex ; claviform elongate and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former very elongate and confluent with reniform ; the subterminal Jine represented by a series of small whitish lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia ochreous, with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing white, the veins and a fine terminal line ochreous, Hab, Punsan, Firozpur (Nurse), 1 g¢ type. Exp. 32 millim. “341. Euxoa insertans. (Plate LXIX. fig..10.) Agrotis insertans, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xvii. p.45 (1893) ; id. Cat. Noet. N. Aim. p. 89. ¢. Rather sordid yellow ; tegule with black medial line, the tips sometimes more dusky ; thorax mixed with black scales; patagia incompletely edged with black. Fore wing with the subbasal line obsolete; the antemedial line represented by a curved striga below the claviform ; a black streak below base of cell confluent with the black-outlined claviform ; orbicular with fuscous centre, elongate, and connected by a spur with the reniform, a continuous black line defining both ; cell black before and between the stigmata; a black spot below reniform ; postmedial line obsolete; subterminal line pale, dentate to termen on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, with distinct black intermediate dashes. Hind wing pure white; the underside with slight dark irroration. Hab, Cananva, Br. Columbia, Spencer’s Bridge. Exp. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 342. Kuxoa neomexicana. (Plate LXI. fig. 20.) Carneades neomexicana, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 88, p. 218 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 88. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with rufous; tegule white at base and extremity, with dark medial line followed by a rufous band; patagia white on outer side ; thoracic tuft white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with rufous; the costal area grey-white ; the subbasal line indistinct from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards in cell and submedian fold and inwards on median nervure ; the claviform represented by a slight rufous streak ; the orbicular and reniform whitish, with rufous centres and brown out- line, the former oblique, oblong, open above, the latter with some fuscous at its lower end; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; veins 3, 4 with dark streaks outlined with white; the subterminal line whitish, dentate, more strongly at veins 7, 4,3; a terminal series EUXOA. 207 of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins brownish, the terminal area tinged with brown. Hab.-U.S.A., New Mexico, Lamy (Cockerell), 1 ¢. Exp. 36 millim. 343. Euxoa recula. (Plate LXI. fig. 21.) Agrotis recula, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 87 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, Dicer s Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with brown ; palpi with some black scales above ; patagia with some black scales at extremity. Fore wing mixed black and brown ; an ochreous-white fascia below costa narrowing to a point beyond middle; an antemedial semi- circular mark below the cell opening downwards ; no trace of the antemedial line; the orbicular and reniform large, ochreous white ; an oblique ochreous-white fascia in submedian interspace from near the semicircular mark to near subterminal line, its inner extremity pointed ; the postmedial line indistinct, blackish, angled outwards on veins 6 and 4, then oblique and punctiform ; an ochreous-white subterminal line excurved at middle developed into a spot below apex, and with a series of dentate black marks on its inner edge ; cilia white and brown. Hind wing white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, 3 5,2 2 type, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, 1 3,1 2 Grote Coll., California (Walsingham),1 g,12. Hep. 28 millim,. 344. Euxoa segregata. (Plate LXI. fig. 22. Carneades segregata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 47, pl. iv. f. 6 (1894). Head and thorax pale brownish: ochreous mixed with grey and black; tegule with black medial line; abdomen pale ochreous irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous white, rather sparsely irrorated with black and tinged in places with reddish brown; a subbasal black point below the cell followed by a slight blackish streak ; the antemedial line double, sinuous from cell to vein 1, obsolete on costal and inner areas ; claviform outlined with black ; the cell before and between the stigmata brown ; the orbicular and reniform with brown centres, whitish annuli and black outline, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter moderate ; traces of an oblique medial shade from cell to inner margin; the post- medial line very indistinct ; minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved; the subterminal line bent outwards to apex and tornus and excurved at middle, with some dentate black marks on its inner side at middle, the area beyond it fuscous indented by the pale streaks defining veins 3, 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; a discoidal point and terminal series. Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., Colorado, Oregon, 2 2 , California (Walsingham), 1 3, Arizona, 1 ¢o. Exp. 38 millim, 208 NOCTUIDE. 345. Euxoa brevipennis. (Plate LXI. fig. 23.) Agrotis brevipennis, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 455 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. ¢. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous, the scales tipped with white; tegula with medial black line ; abdomen grey- brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown and with fuscous in cell and on terminal area; an indistinct pale subcostal fascia extending to beyond middle and a streak on median nervure; the antemedial line indistinct, double, obsolete except in submedian interspace where it is angled inwards below median nervure, then excurved and with the distinct black-edged claviform on its outer edge; the orbicular and reniform pale-ringed, defined by a black line, the former oblique, oblong, open above, the latter well developed, constricted at middle; some pale points on terminal half of costa ; postmedial line entirely obsolete ; the sub- terminal line pale, developed into an obscure pale patch at apex and strongly dentate on veins 4, 3; a waved black terminal line ; cilia brown, with a pale line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line brownish; the underside with discoidal spot, the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 g, Nevada, California. LEwp. 40 millim. 346. Euxoa letificans. (Plate LXI. fig. 24.) Carneades letificans, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 48, pl. v. f. 3 (1894). 3d. Head and thorax dark brown and fuscous mixed with grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing dull brown; the costal area ochreous to the postmedial line, the inner area ochreous; the subbasal line represented by ochreous striz from costa and median nervure, the latter with black point on its inner side and some black beyond it before the ante- medial line, which is obsolete except from cell to vein 1 and angled outwards in submedian fold; claviform moderate, prominently defined by black, with an ochreous fascia from it to subterminal line; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical; the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the subterminal line indistinct, ochreous, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate at middle, defined on inner side by some dentate black marks at middle ; a fine terminal black line; cilia ochreous at base, greyish at tips with a dark line through them. Hind wing pure white, with fine terminal brownish line; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and some postmedial points on veins of costal area, _ Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 g. Lap. 36 millim. EUXOA. 209 347. Euxoa pugionis. (Plate LXI. fig. 25.) Carneades pugionis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 419 (1900). 3. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with reddish brown ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing red-brown ; the costal area yellowish white to near apex; the inner area yellowish white ; two subbasal black points below cell; the ante- medial line black, obsolete except from subcostal nervure to vein 1 and angled inwards on median nervure ; claviform slightly defined by black with a yellowish fascia from it to subterminal line; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and yellowish annul defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; median nervure streaked with white; the postmedial line punctiform, black, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, obsolete below vein1l; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 defined by dentate white streaks to near termen intersecting the subterminal line, which is represented by a series of small dentate black spots in the inter- spaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish at base, brownish at tips. Hind wing pure white, the termen very slightly tinged with brown. Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia, Calgary, 1 g ; U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 g. Exp. 30 milllim. 348. Euxoa quadridentata. (Plate LXI. fig. 26.) Agrotis quadridentata, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 491, pl. 3. ff. 2, 3 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black ; tegule with ochreous band in front and tipped with white: abdomen ochreous white, dorsally more or less irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish brown; a whitish fascia below costa extending to costa at base and ending in streaks on the veins beyond middle ; streaks on median nervure and veins 3,4; an ochreous fascia on inner margin; two oblique black striz below base of cell; the antemedial line consisting of an oblique black line across cell and a line angled outwards below cell and confluent with the well-developed black-edged claviform ; the orbicular and reniform whitish tinged with brown and black-edged, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter well developed; an ochreous fascia in submedian fold from below middle of cell to near subterminal line ; the postmedial line black, very oblique from costa to vein 6, angled outwards on veins 6 and 5, then as an oblique series of small dentate marks; the subterminal line consisting of a series of small dentate black marks obsolete towards costa and inner margin and with two dentate white marks on it below apex; cilia white, with three brown lines through them. Hind wing white, the vein and terminal area brownish; a discoidal point sometimes present. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado (Snow), 1 3, California ( Wal- singham), 2 3. Exp. 30-36 millim. VOL. IV. P 210 NOCTUID®E, 349. Euxoa niveilinea. (Plate LXI. fig. 27.) Agrotis niveilinea, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 216 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. Head and thorax grey and brown ; vertex of head, terminal half of tegule and edges of patagia mixed with black; tegule tipped with white; thorax with a white patch on dorsum; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the legs irrorated with brown. Fore wing yellowish brown; a subcostal white fascia tapering to a point beyond middle; the median nervure, veins 3, 4, 6, 7, and the terminal part of vein 1 defined by fine white streaks ; a white-edged subbasal diamond-shaped mark below cell open above and below, its outer edge formed by the antemedial line which is otherwise obsolete, and with the black-edged vitta-shaped claviform on its outer edve; the orbicular and reniform white with brownish centres and blackish edges, the former oblique elliptical, the latter well developed; an oblique brownish-white fascia in submedian interspace from below middle of cell to postmedial line, which is grey and oblique from costa to vein 6, then brownish, ‘minutely dentate and inwardly oblique; the subterminal line brow nish, minutely dentate, angled inwards below costa and incurved below vein 3; a fine pale terminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and omen tinged with brown ; faint traces of a postmedial line. Hub, U.S.A., Nebraska, Kansas, 1 be Aeron Coll., Texas, Colorado (Brucz) ie? New Mexico. Exp., , 2 34 millim. 350. Euxoa oblongistigma. (Plate LXI. fig. 28.) Agrotis oblongistigma, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 454 (1887) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. 3S. Head and basal part of tegule grey-brown, thorax dark brown ; tegule with medial black line ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey lar eely mixed with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pale brownish; a black streak below basal part of cell; the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete; claviform filled in with black ; orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black before and between them, the former oblique, open above, the latter narrow, lunulate; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, with dentate black marks on inner side of its medial part, expanding into a bidentate mark at vein 6 and crossed by pale streaks on each side of veins 3, 4; an obscure pale streak from below medial part of cell to sub- terminal line; cilia pale, with two brown lines through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the disk whitish; cilia white; the underside with discoidal lunule. Hab, U.S.A., Montana, Black Hills, Colorado (Bruce), 2 9, Twin Lakes ((€ gehen ell), 1 6, California, Nevada Co,1 9. zp. 36 millim. BUXOA. All 301. Euxoa olivalis. (Plate LXI. fig. 29.) Agrotis olivalis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 43 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. @. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown ; tegule with black medial line ; thorax with whitish band behind tegule ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark olive-brown; a whitish fascia below costa and in base of cell ending in a point beyond middle; the antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein | and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin where it is whitish; claviform large, elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform. white-edged and defined by black, the former narrow and very oblique, the latter wel! developed ; the subterminal line grey with dentate black marks on its inner side and crossed by grey dentate marks on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 1; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia brown, with a darker line through them. Hind wing brown; the cilia white, with a brown line at base. Underside of both wings with discoidal spot and curved postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 2 type. Hap. 32 millim. 352. Euxoa plagigera. (Plate LXI. fig. 30.) Agrotis plagigera, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 163 (1874); id. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 57 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. 2. Head and thorax grey, mixed with dark brown; tegule whitish in front, with black medial line; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown, suffused with grey; a grey fascia below costa ending in a point beyond middle ; an ill-defined black streak below base of cell; the antemedial line oblique, obsolete on costal area, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; an oblique white streak in base of cell to upper edge of orbicular, which is oblique, narrow and open above; the orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by a black line; the clavi- form outlined in black; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then oblique, with a grey streak before it in submedian interspace from below middle of cell and a grey shade beyond it, emitting streaks below veins 7, 6, 4, 3 to the subterminal line, which is grey and angled outwards on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia grey with two brown lines through them. Hind wing dirty whitish suffused with brown, leaving the disk rather paler; the veins brown; the cilia white ; the underside with indistinct discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, 1 2 Grote Coll., Montana, Colorado, 1 9, Nevada, California, Sanzalito, 1 9°. Exp. 34-38 millim. 1) 219 NOCLUID®. 353. Euxoa ridingsiana. (Plate LXI. fig. 31.) Agrotis ridingsiana, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. ii. p. 305 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. Head and thorax dark brown; tegule paler at base and with a black medial line; abdomen brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing dark brown tinged with grey ; a grey subcostal fascia ending in a point beyond middle; the median nervure and base of veins 3, 4 streaked with grey; the antemedial line grey, defined by black on outer side, obsolete on costal area, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, excurved in submedian interspace and above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform with flesh-coloured annuli defined by black, the former rounded, the latter well de- veloped; claviform large, black-edged, with a flesh-coloured streak from it to the postmedial line, which is formed by small dentate black marks, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line flesh-coloured, sinuous, excurved at middle and with dentate black marks on its inner side; a waved terminal black line; cilia brown, fuscous at base. Hind wing brown, the veins and terminal area darker; cilia white, with brownish line at base. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 So, 1 Q type, (Grote Coll 1599 (Cockerell), New Mexico, Arizona. vp, 34 millim. 304. Euxoa flavidens. (Plate LXI. fig. 32.) Agrotis flavidens, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 455 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. ¢. Head and thorax dark brown, mixed with some ochreous and grey ; tegule with the basal half ochreous mixed with brown and bounded by a medial black line ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing yellowish white suffused with dark brown, except on costal area to postmedial line and on inner area ; some black suffusion below base of cell; the antemedial line obsolete except between median nervure and vein 1, where it is angled outwards in submedian fold; clavi- form elongate, slightly defined by black, and with a yellowish streak from its extremity to subterminal line; orbicular and reniform yellowish defined by black and with brownish centres, the former nearly round, the cell before and between them suffused with black ; the postmedial line represented by an indistinct series of black points bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4, dentate yellowish marks defining veins 3, 4, 6, 7 extending from it to near termen; the subterminal line represented by a series of small black spots, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia yellowish, with two brownish lines through them. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; the cilia white; the underside white, with the costal and terminal areas slightly iirorated with brown and a slight discoidal brown line. ®. Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢, Nevada, 1 9, New Mexico, Arizona. Exp. 36 millim. EUXOA. DiS 355. Euxoa biclavis. (Plate LXII. fig. 1.) Agrotis biclavis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. v. p. 206 (1879); id. Ill. Essay, 53, pl. i. f. 12 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, very slightly tinged with brown; tarsi banded with brown. Fore wing white, slightly suffused in places with brown, especially in lower part of cell, below the cell, on middle of inner area and on terminal area; a slightly sinuous black streak from base in submedian fold to the large elongate black-edged claviform ; orbicular and reniform white, black- edged, a short black streak in cell to the orbicular, which is produced on outer side and confluent with the reniform, which has its lower extremity produced inwards on median neryure so that it is some- what S-shaped and is centred with brown ; no trace of the ante- and postmedial lines ; the veins of terminal area pure white; the sub- terminal line represented by two obliquely-placed black striz from termen below apex to vein 5, then a series of small dentate marks to vein 2; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing pure white, with slight brown shade on veins. 2. Considerably more suffused with brown; the inner half of hind wing tinged with brown. Hab. US.A., Arizona, Tuczon 1 g, 1 9 type Grote Coll. Hzxp. 3$ 36, 2 40 millim. *356. Euxoa atristrigata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 11.) Carneades atristrigata, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 150 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. g. Ashen grey irrorated with black; tegule with black medial line. Fere wing thickly irrorated with black; the lines obsolete ; orbicular narrow, elongate and confluent with the small erect reni- form; a pale shade from end of cell to apex; veins 3,4 marked with white to near termen; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly tinged with fuscous. Hab. Canava, N.W. Br. Columbia. ap. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 357. Euxoa hollemani. (Plate LXII. fig. 2. Agrotis hollemani, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 156 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; palpi blackish at sides; some black hair between bases of antennee ; tegnle with black medial line ; patagia sometimes edged with blackish above ; abdomen grey, dorsally with a slight ochreous tinge. Fore wing grey-brown, the area just below and beyond the cell reddish brown ; a sinuous black streak below basal half of cell; the orbicular grey, black-edged, diamond-shaped, confluent with the grey costal area and with its outer angle usually produced and confluent with the 214 NOCTUID®. reniform, which is grey defined by black and with brown centre, the cell before and beyond the reniform blackish ; no trace of the ante- and postmedial lines; the subterminal line angled outwards below costa, inwards at vein 5, then strongly dentate, the area beyond it brown except at apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white in male, the veins and termen tinged with brown, in female wholly suffused with brown ; the cilia white, with a brown line through them; underside with discoidal point, the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Nevada 1 6 Grote Coll., California, Havilah, 1 2 Grote Coll., (Walsingham) 2 $,5 @, Arizona. Exp. 32-88 millim, 358. Euxoa collocata. (Plate LXII. fig. 3.) Carneades collocata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 50, pl. iii. f. 5 (1898). ©. Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with black ; tegule greyer in front and with dark medial line. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with dark brown, with a slight purplish tinge and strongly irrorated with black; the costal area hardly paler; the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete; a black streak below the cell from base to the claviform, which is outlined with black; the cell black, defining the stigmata, the orbicular being produced and confluent with the reniform ; the postmedial line very indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 3, then inwardly oblique; veins 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 defined by pale streaks, the 1st above only, the two last only towards termen ; a subterminal series of dentate black marks; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline, white, the veins and terminal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 9, Glenwood Springs. LZvp. 38 millim, 359. Euxoa nevada, (Plate LXII. fig. 4.) Carneades nevada, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 420 (1900). g. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and black; abdo- men grey, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with black. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; a diffused black streak below base of cell, with an oblique pale striga on it representing the subbasal line ; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform small, with brownish centres and whitish annuli detined by black, the former elliptical and connected by a whitish streak below subcostal nervure with the latter, the cell suffused with black before and between the stigmata; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a wedge-shaped patch of blackish suffusion from reniform to termen ; the subterminal line represented by a very indistinct series of grey points with obscure dentate blackish marks on their inner side; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with slight fuscous irroration on terminal EUXOA. 215 area and a terminal fuscous line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, cotypet in Coll. J. B. Smith, California (Walsingham), 1g. EHvp. 36 millim, 360. Euxoa acuminifera. Hadena acuminifera, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1854, p. 188; id. 1856, p. 34; Herr.- Schaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 17, 18; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. ¢. Headand thorax olive-brown mixed with fuscous and white ; palpi blackish, white at tips; frons white below ; tegule with blackish medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen white. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated with black; the costal area whitish to the postmedial line, nearly pure white at base ; a black streak below base of cell; median nervure streaked with white ; antemedial line whitish, slightly defined by black, angled outwards below costa and in submedian told; claviform small, defined by black and with a pale streak from it to subterminal line; orbicular and reniform with pale brown centres irrorated with a few black scales and narrow white annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; the post- medial line hardly dentate, slightly defined by pale colour on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by small dentate black marks on inner side ; the veins of terminal area streaked with black and veins 7, 4, 3 shghtly defined by white streaks near subterminal line; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia pale brown, whitish at base and with fuscous medial line. Hind wing white, the termen very slightly tinged with brown and with fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. JTab. Russta, Astrachan, Bogdo,1 ¢; W. Turkestan, Khirghis, Turcomania. xp. 38 millim. 361. Euxoa submolesta. (Plate LXII. fig. 5.) Agrotis submolesta, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 291, pl. 8. f. 14 (1900); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegule with prominent black medial line; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing pale grey- brown; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line with some fuscous-grey suffusion before it on costal area ; claviform moderate, prominently defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, a brown streak in discal fold between the stigmata and from reniform to postmedial line, which is dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line represented by a series of pale dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle, with more or less prominent dentate dark marks before them at middle and some brown suffusion beyond them below 216 NOCTUID. apex ; a terminal lunulate line. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia grey, with a brownish line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and crenulate curved postmedial line. Hab. Trsnt, Kuku Nor, Sinin Mts., 1 ¢, 1 9. Exp. 42-44 millim. Type 7 in Coll. Piingeler. *362. Euxoa flaviscapula. (Plate LXII. fig. 6.) Carneades flaviscapula, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 422 (1900). ¢+ Dull fuscous brown, with fine grey irroration ; tegule reddish at base and with black medial line, the tips grey. Fore wing evenly irrorated, the markings indistinct but all traceable; subbasal line double, curved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line some- what waved and slightly angled outwards at median nervure ; claviform defined by a few fuscous scales; orbicular subquadrate, with fine greyish annulus defined by a few black scales; reniform moderate, defined by grey and black scales, its outer side suffused with ochreous at middle; postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line ochreous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area slightly tinged with brown. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. wp. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *363. Euxoa candida. (Plate LXII. fig. 7.) Carneades candida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 49, pl. iii. f, 4 (1894), Mouse-grey over a luteous ground-colour; head with the lower part of frons pale or luteous; tegule mottled grey and luteous with blackish medial line and luteous tips; thorax and patagia grey; abdomen white tinged with yellowish. Fore wing rather mottled; the lines indistinct, interrupted ; the basal area more luteous, the medial area greyer with luteous streaks in discal and submedian folds, the postmedial area luteous irrorated with fuscous, the ter- minal area grey ; subbasal line double, blackish; the antemedial line double, with blackish spots on costa, erect and somewhat excuryed in interspaces; claviform mederate, luteous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform luteous, indistinctly defined by black, the former round; postmedial line double, with biack spots at costa, the inner line lunulate, the outer even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, irregular ; a terminal series of black lunules; a yellowish line at base of cilia, Hind wing pure white, the veins yellowish. flab. U.S.A., Montana, Boulder (U/ke). Exp. 33 millim, This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof, Smith’s piate. EUXOA. 217 *364. Euxoa procellaris. (Plate LXIV. fig. 1.) Agrotis procellaris, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxvi. p. 258 (1900). Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey ; tegule with black medial line; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing grey, tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line double, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, excurved below costa and cell, strongly above inner margin; clavi- form moderate, distinctly defined by black; orbicular and reniform moderate with brownish centres defined by black and connected by a blackish streak above median nervure, the former round ; post- medial line defined by grey on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; subterminal line grey, defined by a slight dark shade on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middie; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, paler towards base and inner margin, more uniformly suffused in female ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Hawan, Laysan L., type tf ¢ 2 in Mus. Bremen. Exp. 44 millim. 365. Euxoa sponsa. (Plate LXIL. fig. 8.) Agrotis sponsa, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 457 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. @. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey; tegule with black medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous brown. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey and black ; the subbasal line represented by double black strize from costa and median nervure, the latter oblique; the antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by greyish on inner side; claviform minute, obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with slight dark centres, the former round; a slight oblique waved medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, minutely dentate and slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, slightly defined by black on inner side, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous, paler towards base and inner margin ; the cilia whitish with fuscous line at base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with black, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 9. Hap. 38 millim. *366. Euxoaloya. (Plate LXII. fig. 9.) Carneades loya, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 422 (1900). 2. Dark mouse-grey ; tegule with a broad dark band. Fore wing with the lines almost obsolete, indicated by a few dark scales ; 218 NOCTUID. claviform obsolete; orbicular moderate, rounded, with ochreous annulus; reniform narrow, with blackish centre and ochreous annulus; subterminal line represented by a series of irregular ochreous points preceded and followed by dusky shading. Hind wing ochreous, fuscous at base, blackish towards margins, the veins and a discoidal lunule blackish ; cilia ochreous at base, fuscous at middle, and whitish at tips; the underside fuscous with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and somewhat incomplete postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, High Sierras (Dyar). ap. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 367. Euxoa bicollaris. (Plate LXII. fig. 10.) Agrotis bicollaris, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p.. 173 (1878) ; id. Proc. Am. Phil. Soe. xxi. p. 155; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. Pale grey-brown with an ochreous tinge andirrorated with brown; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; tegule with the basal half mostly black. Fore wing with traces of brown antemedial line angled on median nervure, and with striz from costa before and beyond it ; orbicular and reniform large, very indistinct, with dark outline, the former rounded, the latter with darker centre; the postmedial line double, very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then represented by series of points on the veins; the subterminal line indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa and slightly at vein 4, the area beyond it with darker irroration ; a terminal series of small triangular spots. Hind wing brown, the veins and small discoidal lunule rather darker; cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, California, Havilah,1 ¢ 1 9 type, Grote Coll., Arizona. Hwp., ¢ 34, 2 38 millim. 368. Euxoa excogita. (Plate LXII. fig. 11.) Carneades excogita, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 423 (1900). @. Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; palpi blackish at sides, except at tips; tegule with medial black band; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey, suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with black; the subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa and point below cell; the antemedial line indistinct, dark, waved; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform an indistinct dark lunule; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, slightly bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing brownish grey, the cilia white except at base; the under- side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 2. Exp. 34 millim. EUXOA, 219 369. Euxoa punctigera. (Plate LXII. fig. 12.) Mamestra punctigera, Wik. xxxii. 661 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 92 Agrotis pastoralis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 68 (1875). Head and thorax black-brown; a few of the scales tipped with white; abdomen dark brown mixed with grey. Fore wing black- brown irrorated with grey; the orbicular and reniform with black outlines, with some grey scales on inner side, the former rather small, round, the latter well developed ; hardly a trace of the ante- medial line; the postmedial line very indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and waved ; the subterminal line represented by indistinct black streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing brown; the veins darker ; cilia white at tips. Underside of both wings with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with white ; hind wing with the discal area whitish ; a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line cbsolete towards inner margin. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I., 2 ¢ type, 1 2 Grote Coll., type pastoralis; U.S.A., N. York 1 9, Washington 2 9, Colorado 1 9, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona. Hwp., 5 44, 9 48 millim. 370. Euxoa perpolita. (Plate LXII. fig. 13.) Agrotis perpolita, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xviii. p. 287 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. ®. Dark fuscous brown ; tibia and tarsi with whitish points at extremities of joints; pectus and abdomen irrorated with grey. Fore wing with double, waved, black subbasal line from eosta to submedian fold; a trisinuate double antemedial line; the orbieular ‘and reniform black-edged, the former elliptical and touching the antemedial line, the latter well developed; the postmedial line curved, dentate; an indistinct subterminal series of small dentate marks with some grey scales on them. Hind wing with the basal half whitish ; an indistinct curved postmedial line, more prominent on underside ; cilia whitish, Hab. U.S.A., N., E. & Middle States, Maine, Massachusetts (J. E. Bates), 2 9, New York,Colorado. Hwp. 40 millim. *371. Euxoa finis. (Plate LXII. fig. 14.) Agrotis finis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 457 (1887); id. Cat. Noct- N. Am. p. 92. Dull brownish fuscous; tegule with brown medial line ; patagia with some rufous at base and extremities. Fore wing tinged with rusty-brown on subbasal and postmedial areas; lines double, more or less distinct ; subbasal line waved, interrupted in cell; antemedial line oblique, excurved in interspaces, more strongly above inner margin; claviform rather small, defined by black ; orbicular round, reddish grey with dark irroration ; reniform with fine yellow annulus, the yellow rather encroaching on outer side of centre ; postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excuryed 220 NOCTUIDE. to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line pale, slender, slightly and irregularly sinuous. Hind wing dull yellowish fuscous, paler towards base; the veins and a discoidal lunule darker; the under- side paler, with dark irroration especially towards apex; a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Black Hills. wp. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 372. Euxoa perfusca. (Plate LXII. fig. 15.) Agrotis perfusca, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 77 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 91. 3. Head and thorax deep purple-brown, some of the scales tipped with grey ; the edges of tegule and patagia rufous; abdomen grey mixed with dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing dark fuscous brown ; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines hardly traceable ; the claviform with its extremity defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former large, oblique, elliptical, open above and below, the latter large, open above and below ; the subterminal line represented by a series of whitish points. Hind wing white suffused with brown, especially the veins and terminal area; cilia white, with brown line at base; the underside with indistinct curved postmedial line. 9. Hind wing more suffused with brown. Hab, U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 ¢, Oregon, 1 2, Colorado, Denver, California, Arizona. Hap. 36 millim. 373. Euxoa fumalis. (Plate LXII. fig. 16.) Agrotis fumalis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. i. p. 98 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 91. Agrotis permunda, Morr. Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 163 (1874). Dull brown or dark grey-brown ; head and thorax with the hair grey-tipped. Fore wing with indistinct double, waved, black sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a double quadrisinuate antemedial line; the orbicular represented by a dark point or obsolete, the reniform an indistinct lunule; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; faint traces of an irregularly waved subterminal line ; a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia paler. Underside of both wings with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canwava; U.S.A., N., E. & Middle States, New York, 1 ¢, 1 2, Windsor, 1 ¢, Grote Coll. wp. 40 millim. 374. Euxoa velleripennis. (Plate LXII. fig. 17.) Agrotis velleripennis, Grote, Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci. vi. App. p. 25 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 92. 3. Dark fuscous brown with a greyish tinge; pectus, legs, and EUXOA. DP abdomen browner and irrorated with grey. Fore wing with in- distinct double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved black antemedial line with the small indistinct claviform on its outer side; the orbicular and reniform large and defined by black lines, the former round and often con- joined to the antemedial line, the latter often with grey patch on its outer side; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards and oblique, often reduced to points on the veins ; a subterminal sinuous series of black and grey points on tbe veins; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with fuscous brown; a postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins often present; cilia brown, with fine pale line at base and white tips. Q. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cell and area near it indistinctly whitish. Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., E. & Middle States, New York, 34,12 type, Grote Coll. vp. 36-38 millim, 375. Euxoa atomaris. (Plate LXII. fig. 18.) Agrotis atomaris, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 47 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 92. ¢. Head and thorax fuscous black, with a few ochreous and grey scales, especially on edges of tegule, patagia, and in dorsal crest ; pectus and legs largely mixed with white; abdomen white irrorated with brown, and tinged with ochreous on dorsum. Fore wing ochreous, almost entirely suffused with fuscous black; the subbasal line represented by two points on costa; the antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; claviform elongate, finely outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, obscurely outlined with black ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line represented by points of whitish scales; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins towards termen, apical part of termen, and a fine terminal line brown. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado (Hulst), 1 ¢, California. Exp. 26 millim. 376. Euxoa adumbrata. Agrotis adumbrata, Ky. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 543 (1842) ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 121; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis obscura, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 94; id. Rom. Mém. ii. DlezeeOe Agrotis polygonides, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1874, p. 94; id. Rom. Mém. ii. p. 30, pl. 2. f. 5. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey, tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. ore wing greyish, completely suffused with fuscous brown or with the medial and terminal areas darker ; an indistinct, pale, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique, dark, waved, antemedial line 222 NOCTUID.®. defined by grey on inner side ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line indistinct, defined by greyish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent, outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then ineurved; the sub- terminal line indistinct, whitish, defined by slight dentate dark marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and dentate at middle ; a terminal series of black points; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas broadly suffused with brown ; cilia white, with brown line at: base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot. Ab. 1. polygonides. Fore wing browner and more variegated with grey. Hab. Russia, Urals, Kurusch (Christoph), 2 6,1 9; Armenra, Caucasus; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ¢, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-kul; E. Turgxesran, Ili; Tiszr, Amdo; E. Srpertia, Ussuri. xp. 38-42 millim. 377. Euxoa atrofusca. (Plate LXII. fig. 19.) Carneades atrofusca, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 447 (1900). ¢. Head and thorax fuscous brown, mixed with reddish brown and some grey, tegulz more rufous ; tarsi blackish, with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, thickly irrorated with black and suffused with blackish towards termen; a double waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique, double, waved antemedial line; claviform minute, defined by a few black scales; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line greyish, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas suffused with brown; cilia white, with brown line at base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and slight curved postmedial line. The colour varies from mouse-grey to reddish brown. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 ¢, Colorado, Glenwood Springs. vp. 36 millim, 378. Euxoa stigmatilis. (Plate LXII. fig. 20.) Carneades texana, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 154 (1890); nee Grote. Carneades stigmatilis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 425 (1900). Q. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown; abdo- men greyish mixed with ochreous brown. Fore wing brown, irrorated with black-brown ; claviform indicated by a dark shade ; orbicular and reniform with black outlines, inside which are a few BUXOA. Dy) grey scales, the former rather small, round, the latter large; no trace of antemedial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, waved, greyish; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white; the veins brown ; the terminal area tinged with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), in Coll. J. B. Smith, Arizona, Tuczon, 1 2, Grote Coll. Hwp. 42-48 millim. 379. Euxoa gagates. (Plate LXII. fig. 21.) Agrotis gagates, Grote, Can, Ent. vii. p. 69 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. IMs Zari, yo, BPE ¢d. Head and thorax red-brown, some of the scales tipped with white; abdomen grey mixed with yellow-brown. Fore wing red- brown; the veins fuscous brown; orbicular and reniform outlined with white, the former small, round, the latter well developed, open above and below ; no trace of antemedial line; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved.; an indistinct waved grey subterminal line excurved between veins 7 and 5; a terminal series of black points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown. Q. Hind wing with the veins brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 2 ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Abington (Col. Bates), 1 3, Colorado, 1 Q type, Grote Coll., California. Ewp., 3 40, 2 44 millim. *380. Euxoa dianthecie. Agrotis dianthecie, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 60 (1885) ; id. N. Arch. Mus. (3) i. p. 147, pl. x. f. 8. 3. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with yellow-brown and white; abdomen pale yellow-brown. Fore wing yellow-brown, mixed with grey and irrorated with fuscous; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line angled inwards in cell and outwards in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the orbicular and reniform small, whitish, the former round, with a dark point on costa above it; traces of an irregular medial line; postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, more strongly at submedian fold ; subterminal line defined by slight fuscous suffusion before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slight terminal series of points. Hind wing brown, the cilia white with a brown line at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Paraconta, Santa Cruz, typet ¢ in Mus. Paris. Hyp. 34 millim. ho bho = NOCTULD.&, 381, Euxoa falclandica, n. sp. (Plate LXIL. fig. 22.) Head and thorax black-brown mixed with ochreous and grey ; pectus with grey hair; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown, with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing black-brown, mixed with some ochreous and grey; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved whitish antemedial line defined by black on each side and strongly angled inwards in cell and on vein 1; orbicular and reniform small, whitish, with brown centres, the former round ; the postmedial line black, defined by whitish on outer side, dentate, strongly bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed; a pale sub- terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with dentate blackish marks on its inner side; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous brown. Hind wing fuscous brown: cilia whitish, with a brown line at base; the underside fuscous brown, with slight whitish streaks on the veins ; the cilia white. Hab. Fatxuanp Is, 1 g, 1 2 (Vallentin), 1 3, 1 @ type. Exp. 36 millim, 5382. Euxoa misturata. (Plate LXII. fig. 23.) Carneades misturata, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 156 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 92. 9. Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with black; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white, ventrally tinged with red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, thickly irrorated with black; the subbasal line repre- sented by black spots on costa and below cell, with pale striz on their outer sides; the antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled outwards below costa; orbicular and reniform whitish, defined by black and with their centres irrorated with fuscous, the former oblique, elliptical ; an oblique waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, defined on inner side by a series of dentate blackish marks, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black points ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with very pale brown, forming a well-defined band. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 9. Exp, 36 millim. *383. Euxoa merens. (Plate LXILI. fig. 24.) Carneades merens, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. + (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. ¢G. Head and thorax red-brown, the hairs with pale tips; tibie and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white with slight fuscous irroration. Fore wing red-brown, slightly irrorated with EUXOA. 225 black ; the subbasal line black, double, waved; the antemedial line double, obliquely waved ; claviform slightly outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the former round with fuscous centre, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity ; a medial shade from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being tinged with fuscous, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, suffused with brown especially towards termen, the veins and a waved terminal line brown; the underside with discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Q. Head, thorax, and fore wing rather greyer; abdomen and hind wing white; fore wing with the postmedial line more dentate. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, in Coll. Schaus, New Mexico, Hot Springs, in U.S. Nat. Mus., Arizona. vp, 32 millim. 384. Euxoa robiginosa. (Plate LXII. fig. 25.) Agrotis robiginosa, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 271 (1894); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. ©. Head and thorax pale rufous; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing rather paler rufous; the subbasal line represented by traces of double striz from costa and cell; antemedial iine almost obsolete ; claviform narrow, slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by blackish, the former oblique, elliptical; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line defined by slight fuscous suffusion on inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half tinged with ochreous brown; cilia white; underside white, the costal and terminal areas very slightly irrorated with pale brown. Hab. Syria, Palestine, 1 9. Ewvp. 40 millim. *385. Euxoa exculta. (Plate LXII. fig. 26.) Carneades exculta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 424 (1900). g. Soft dark red-brown, suffused with grey; tegule without transverse line. Fore wing with the lines almost obsolete, the ante- and postmedial lines represented by fuscous spots on costa and the former by a series of golden brown scal s; orbicular and reniform slightly darker, very faintly defined by golden-brown scales ; subterminal line irregular, only defined by the area beyond it being somewhat darker. Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous, darker towards termen ; cilia yellowish white; underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas with dark irroration, Hab. Canava, N.W. Br. Columbia. ap. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. VOL. IV. Q 226 _ NOCTUID®. 386. Euxoa cursoriodes, n. sp. (Plate LXII. fig. 27.) 3S. Head and thorax brownish white, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; palpi fuscous at sides; tegule with fuscous medial line ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing reddish ochreous ; a dentate subbasal blackish line from costa to submedian told, a waved antemedial line produced to a long tooth above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by brown; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by brown; postmedial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold; the subterminal line indistinct, whitish, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- curved at middle, with slight dentate dark marks on its inner side at middle and brownish suffusion beyond it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and termen tinged with brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and postinedial series of strize on the veins and traces of a line towards costa. Hab. Syria, 1 g type, Leech Coll. wp. 38 millim, 387. Euxoa heringi. Agrotis heringi, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877 (March), p. 181 ; Christ. Hor. Soe. Ent. Ross. xit. p. 248, pl. 6. f 21 (1877 June); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis signata, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 364 (1899). ¢d. Head and thorax ochreous with a fulvous tinge; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, tinged with fulvous and irrorated with fuscous; a very indistinct waved antemedial line; faint traces of orbicular and reniform stigmata ; a very indistinct dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it slightly tinged with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white ; the veins brownish ; the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown; the underside with the costal and terminal ureas irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. segnata. Fore wing with the markings more distinct. Hab. Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Persia, Scharud, 20, Zeller Coll, Exp. 36 millim. *388. Euxoa serricornis. Agrotis serricornis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 458 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. Reddish ochreous with darker irroration; thorax clothed with hair and seales. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines double, the latter somewhat oblique and excurved in interspaces ; claviform obsolete; orbicular obsolescent, with very faint pale annulus; reniform fuscous, with indistinct pale annulus; post- medial line represented by a double series of points on the veins ; subterminal line distinct, pale, irregularly sinuous, defined on inner side by a dark shade, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous. EUXOA. QoF Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards termen; the underside pale, irrorated- with rufous and grey, an indistinct discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., 8. California. Eup. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me, *389. Euxoa eremioides. (Plate LXII. fig. 28.) Agrotis eremioides, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxvi. p. 257 (1900). 3. Head and thorax dull reddish brown; thorax fuscous brown ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, more or less suffused with fuscous and with a silky gloss; the lines indistinct or obsolete; the antemedial line erect, minutely waved; claviform and orbicular obsolete, or the latter small, elliptical, with dark outline ; reniform an obscure fuscous patch or obsolete; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below custa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line a slight shade, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and a terminal line darker. Hab. Hawaut, Laysan I., in Coll. Meyrick. Hxvp. 46 millim. 390. Euxoa citricolor. (Plate LXII. fig. 29.) Agrotis citricolor, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 154 (1880); id. Can. Ent. xv. p- 26; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 92. ¢. Head and thorax lemon-yellow, the base of hair white; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the last dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing lemon-yellow ; a short reddish-brown streak at lower angle of cell; some minute brown points on termen; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing pure white. Underside white. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line present, curved, waved; a very irregular subterminal line with the area beyond it darker ; orbicular dusky, very indistinct ; reniform large, dusky, indistinct ; the underside with discoidal point and some grey irroration towards apex. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢ type, Grote Coll., Utah, Arizona. Exp. 40 millim. 391. Euxoa farinosa. (Plate LXII. fig. 30.) Agrotis furinosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 12; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 3. Head and thorax grey-white, tinged with pink and with a few blackish scales; abdomen white. Fore wing pale grey, suffused with pinkish and irrorated with a few blackish scales ; the subbasal line represented by double strize from costa; the ante- medial line with double striz on costa, then single, oblique, excurved in interspaces; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform very slightly defined by dark scales ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a2 228 NOCTUIDA, the subterminal line represented by a few pale points with some dark scales before them; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, with brownish terminal line. @. Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous grey, with hardly a trace of the pinkish tinge; abdomen tinged with brown ; hind wing with the veins, costal and inner areas tinged with brown. Hab. W.Turxestan, Aksu, 1 ¢,1 9, Issyk Kul; E. Turkestan, Hi. vp. 40 millim, *392. Euxoa remota. (Plate LXII. fig. 31.) Agrotis remota, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 47 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 93. Pale carneous grey; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing with slight reddish suffusion on medial area, the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line distinct, double, brown ; antemedial line double, incomplete, somewhat excurved in interspaces ; clavi- form small, incompletely defined by black; orbicular oblique, irregularly elliptieal, grey defined by black; reniform large, grey, with fine pale annulus incompletely defined by black, its outer side with a pale yellowish blotch; postmedial line indistinctly double, the inner line fine, crenulate, the outer reduced to points on the veins, distinct below vein 5, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, irregular, angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle, defined on outer side by the dark terminal area. Hind wing dirty whitish, with the termen darker; the underside pale with darker irroration, a diffused discoidal spot and incomplete postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada (McGlashan). Exp. 35 millim. ‘This species is unknown to me; figured from a puoto- graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. and coloured figure from specimen in American Museum of Natural History. *393. Euxoa infracta. Agrotis infracta, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xviii. p. 115 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. Yellowish tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with the medial and terminal areas darker; the lines distinct, double; the antemedial line erect, shghtly excurved in interspaces ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform pale defined by black, the former large, round, the latter strongly incurved on outer side at middle ; postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a dark shade from apex to inner margin before the subterminal line, which is pale, slender, strongly sinuous, and unusually irregular. Hind wing uniform pale yellowish fuscous; the underside with dark irroration, discoidal spot, and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, wp. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me. EUXOA. 229 394, Euxoa detersa. (Plate LXII. fig. 32.) Chareas detersa, W1k. ix. 212 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. Agrotis pitychrous, Grote, Bull. Butf. Soc. ip. 82 (1873). Agrotis personata, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 238 (1876). 3. Grey-white ; the vertex of head, hinder part of tegule, and thorax tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing suffused with rufous, especially in, below, and beyond cell and on terminal area; the median nervure and veins 3, 4 streaked with white ; waved white subbasal and antemedial lines from costa to vein 1 defined by dark lines; claviform small, whitish with dark outline; orbicular and reniform yellowish white with brown outline, the former small, round or slightly elongate, the latter well developed; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved, and with a whitish band between it and the dentate subterminal line, which is angled outwards at veins 7 and 4; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia white. 9°. Markings grey-brown ; hind wing more suffused with brown. Hab. Canava, Nova Scotia (Redman), 3 ¢,1 2 type; U.S.A., N., HE. & Central States, 4 ¢,1 9, Grote and Zeller Colls., Colorado (Bruce), 1 3. Eep. 34 millim. Larva, Beutenmiiller, Ent. Amer. v. p- 88 (1889). Head pale brown, shining. Body brownish, thin-skinned. Dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and substigmatal lines white; cervical shield pale; spiracles black. Food-plants, grasses.—H. G. D. *395. Euxoa luteola. (Plate LXIII. fig. 1.) Agrotis iuteola, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 457 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. 2. Head and thorax grey tinged with pale reddish brown; tegule with fuscous medial line; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey- brown with a slight rufous and ochreous tinge, rather thickly irrorated with fuscous; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1; claviform indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, the former round, the latter angled inwards on median nervure, on which there is a fuscous streak at extremity; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by some dark scales on each side of it and by the area beyond it being slightly darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pale ochreous brown, rather darker towards termen ; cilia yellowish white, with slight brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 30 milim. 230 ' NOCTUID. *396. Euxoa tetrica. Agrotis tetrica, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 458 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. Reddish Inteous suffused with grey; thorax clothed with hair and scales. Fore wing with the lines double, indistinct ; the antemedial line erect, very even; claviform obsolete ; orbicular large, round, defined by black scales; reniform rather large, ill-defined, its lower part suffused with fuscous ; postmedial line very even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, sinuous, somewhat pale. Hind wing fuscous, paler towards base; the underside pale, with dark irroration and discoidal lunule. Hab, U.S.A., Texas, Nevada. wp. 35-37 millim. This species is unknown to me. "397, Euxoa fulda, (Plate LXTII. fig. 2.) Carneades fulda, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 437 (1900). ®. Head and thorax grey, brownish, and fuscous mixed; tegule with traces of medial line; tarsi with black bands; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing grey, slightly tinged and irrorated with fuscous; a slight double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct, double, waved antemedial line; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former round; post- medial line indistinct, minutely waved, double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line whitish, defined by a slight fuscous patch at costa and strie at middle and by the area bey ond it being darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous; cilia white, with a brownish line through them ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a minute discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., California, Fresno, in U.S. Nat. Mus. - Eup. 36 millim. 398. Euxoa nevula. (Plate LXIILI. fig. 3. Carneades nevulus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 424 (1900). 3S. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by blackish marks below costa and cell ; the antemedial line rather indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1; claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform well developed and prominently defined by black, the former nearly round ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; faint traces of a minutely waved subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with slight EUXOA, 931 diffused brownish subterminal band and terminal series of dark strie; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., California, Placer Co.,1 ¢. Exp. 36 miilim. *399. EKuxo2a termessa. (Plate LXIII. fig. 4.) Carneades termessus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 426 (1900). 3g. Luteous grey, irrorated with fine black scales; palpi rusty yellowish in front. Fore wing with the markings indistinct and slightly darker than ground-colour; subbasal line double and marked at costa only ; antemedial line double, the two parts rather widely separated, excurved in cell and above inner margin and slightly in submedian interspace; claviform small; orbicular moderate, elliptical, somewhat paler than ground-colour and defined by fuscous scales; reniform large, extending to below cell and incompletely defined; postmedial line double, the inner line most prominent and somewhat diffused, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line almost obsolete except at costa, where it is defined by a dark shade on its inner side ; a terminal series of minnte black lunules. Hind wing dirty whitish, the terminal area narrowly tinged with fuscous ; a dis- coidal spot and distinct terminal line; the underside white, irrorated with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Wyoming, Yellowstone Park (Barnes). vp. 38 millim, ‘This species is unknown to me; figured from a photo- graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 400. Euxoa detesta. (Plate LXILI. fig. 5.) Carneades choris, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 158 (1890), zee Harv. Carneades detesta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 44, p. 93 (1893); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. 2. Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with fuscous black ; tegule with blackish medial line; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-white. Fore wing grey-white with an ochreous tinge and thickly irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line re- presented by two black points on costa; the antemedial line oblique, waved, with black point before it on costa; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black and with fuscous centres; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the terminal area clouded with fuscous; the subterminal line represented by a series of small whitish and black dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, inner margin, and termen tinged with brown, a tine terminal dark line; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 9, Colorado. Lvp. 36 millim. 232 NOCTUIDA, 401, Euxoa homicida. (Plate LXIII. fig. 6.) Agrotis homicida, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 363, pl. 6. f. 7 (1900); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and strongly irrorated with black; the subbasal line represented by some black scales below cell; the antemedial line oblique, waved; claviform very faintly defined by black at extremity; orbicular and reniform obscurely defined by blackish, the former round ; postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line only defined by slight fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards ab vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, broadly in female; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, Hab. Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus,1 ¢,1 9. Ewp. 34 millim. 402. Euxoa contagionis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 7.) Carneades contagionis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 421 (1900). 6. White; head and thorax slightly mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; tibizee and tarsi blackish above with white rings. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by black points on costa and below cell; the ante- medial line almost obsolete, waved, with a black point at costa ; the orbicular a small blackish spot, the reniform a small lunule; the postmedial line very indistinct, punctiform, with a prominent black spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; faint traces of a dark sinuous subterminal line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing with very slight brown tinge on veins and termen. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 ¢, Colorado. vp. 36 millim. *403. Euxoa tronella. (Plate LXIII. fig. 8.) Carneades tronellus, Smith, ined. ¢. Head and thorax white, very slightly tinged with ochreous- brown and irrorated with dark brown; abdomen white. Fore wing sparsely irrorated with brown; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines almost obsolete ; the orbicular and reniform represented by slight fuscous centres; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being slightly browner and by a browner patch before it at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing white, the veins and medial part of termen very slightly irrorated with brown. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing more thickly irrorated with brown, the last with the markings more distinct; a waved ante- BUXOA. 933 medial line; a minutely dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved. Hab. U.S.A., Utah, Stockton, co-types T ¢ Q in Coll. Rothschild. Evp., 6 36, 2 38 millim. 404. Euxoa confusa. Agrotis confusa, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 61, pl. 2. f. 47 (1882) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. Agrotis subconspicua, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 13; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. g. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft mixed with yellow. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown; the subbasal line represented by indistinct black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line waved, angled outwards above inner margin, blackish, defined by grey on inner side; claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform whitish, rather incompletely defined by black ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line represented by a rather obscure series of dentate blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, and tinged with ochreous towards inner margin ; cilia white with brown line at base; the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and some brown suffusion on terminal area. Hab. W. Tur«rstan, Ferghana; E. Turxssran, Ili, Korla; Moncours, Uliassatai Mts.,1 ¢. wp. 36 millim, 405. Euxoa subdecora. (Plate LXIII. fig. 9.) Agrotis subdecora, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 7; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. gd. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen grey- white, dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with white; a waved fuscous ante- medial line from costa to submedian fold; a nearly straight erect antemedial line; hardly a trace of the stigmata; postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; traces of a subterminal line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a brown line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown; cilia white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Asta Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 3, Ferghana, Issyk Kul. Zep. 34 millim. 406. Euxoa acornis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 10.) Carneades acornis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 335, pl. 15. f. 6 (1895). 3. Head and thorax very pale brown; tarsi banded with black ; 234 NOCTUIDZE. abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish, tinged with pale brown and very slightly irrorated with black; faint traces of an oblique waved antemedial line, of brown-defined orbicular and reniform stigmata, the former upright, elliptical, of a regular post- medial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and of a subterminal series of dark points; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, with slight diffused sub- terminal fuscous band; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. Hab, Canava, Br. Columbia, Calgary, 1 ¢. Zvp. 36 millim. 407. Euxoa birivia. Noctua birivia, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 71 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 651; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ff. 9, 10; Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 191; Dup. Lép. Fr. v. p. 267, pl. 70.f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Agrotis honnoratina, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 474, pl. 18. ff. 3, 4 (1887). Agrotis dolis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 91 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. An. p. 93. Head and thorax ashy grey, the hairs being brownish tipped with grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing ash-grey irrorated with ochreous white; an antemedial whitish line, minutely dentate and bent inwards to inner margin, often distinctly angled outwards in submedian fold; the orbicular and reniform defined by ochreous-white lines, the former either round or elongate, the latter constricted at middle; an obliquely curved dentate postmedial line; an indistinct irregularly waved subterminal line; a pale ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area pale brown; cilia white. Underside of both wings with brownish discoidal lunule and post- medial line obsolescent except towards costa. Hab, Alps of Francs, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, 1 d, 5 9, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Iraty; Avsrria, Styria; Huneary, Leech Coll., 1 ¢ Grote Coll. vp. 44 millim. The locality Colorado for the species is incorrect. Subsp. 1. tawrica. Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 370 (1878). Fore wing with the markings pale ochreous instead of white. Hab, Asta Miyor, Taurus; W. Turxesran, Issyk Kul,1 o. 408. Euxoa cenis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 11.) Agrotis cenis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 44 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p- 94. Agrotis muscosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 26 (1888). 2. Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown; many of the hairs tipped with crimson ; abdomen grey-white tinged with ochreous brown, and with some crimson on ventral surface. Fore wing grey, suffused and irrorated with crimson; some black points on costa; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by crimson suffusion before and beyond them, the former round, the latter with fuscous EUXOA. 235 centre; faint traces of waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub- terminal lines, the second bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 3, the last irregular; cilia brownish, with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown. Hub. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 2 type. Lxp. 42 millim. *409, Euxoa relaxa. (Plate LXIII. fig. 12.) Carneades relaxus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii, p. 482 (1900). Pale fuscous with a slight reddish tinge ; palpi blackish at sides, yellowish at tips; tegule with an incomplete brown line near extremities; thorax clothed with flattened hair. Fore wing with the markings fuscous; subbasal line double, only marked below costa and cell; antemedial line double, the inner only marked at costa, slightly oblique and somewhat excurved in interspaces ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular round or elliptical, defined with fuscous and sometimes with some dark scales at centre; reniform large, extending to a little below cell, defined by black scales and with dusky centre ; medial shade indistinct, diffused; postmedial line double, the outer obsolete below vein 4, the inner crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sub- terminal line pale, waved, slightly dentate at veins 3, 4, defined by a dark shade before it and the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of small brown lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish, tinged with fuscous on terminal area; a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish ; the underside whitish with dark irroration. Hab. U.S.A., California, San Francisco, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *410. Euxoa vulpina. (Plate LXIII. fig. 13.) Carneades vulpina, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 335, pl. xv. f. 5 (1895). 3. Dull ashen grey; thorax clothed with loose hair. Fore wing with the markings indistinct, the lines just traceable; the antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular small with pale annulus ; reniform represented by two parallel pale lines; a fairly prominent diffused dusky medial shade; postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of pale points. Hind wing pale greyish; the underside still paler. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Calgary (Dod). Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 411. Euxoa bostoniensis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 14.) Agrotis bostoniensis, Grote, Proce. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 203; Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe, iii. p. 74, pl. 3. f. 7; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 94. §. Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown; palpi brown at 236 NOCTUIDS. sides; antenne brown; abdomen grey-brown. Tore wing grey, rather thickly irrorated with dark brown ; a double waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a double dentate antemedial line with the inner line indistinct, more strongly toothed below costa and above inner margin; a dentate medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; no trace of the stigmata; a minutely dentate post- medial line bent outwards below costa, then curved; a minutely dentate subterminal line angled slightly outwards below costa and at vein 3; a terminal series of points. Hind wing white; the veins brownish; the termen irrorated with fuscous. Underside of fore wing with curved postmedial line, of hind wing with postmedial series of points on the veins. 9. Hind wing brown ; the cilia whitish. Hab. Canava; U.S.A., N., E., & Middle States, Massachusetts, 1 g,1 Q type, Grote Coll. wp. 44 millim. *412. Euxoa sessile. (Plate LXIII. fig. 15.) Carneades sessile, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 431 (1900). Dull, even smoky grey; palpi yellowish at tips; head and thorax clothed with rather flattened hair. Fore wing shghtly tinged with red; subbasal line rather indistinct, double, interrupted, blackish ; antemedial line double, fuscous, nearly erect from costa to median nervure, excurved below cell and strongly above inner margin; claviform small, defined by fuscous; orbicular irregularly elliptical, oblique, defined by black; reniform large, extending to below cell, irregular and defined by black; medial shade rather broad, diffused and somewhat darkening the cell between the stigmata; postmedial line double, the inner lunulate, the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line hardly traceable except at costa where it is defined by a dark shade before it; an interrupted black terminal line followed by a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish tinged with fuscous, paler at base, in male whitish with a dusky discoidal spot; cilia white; the underside whitish, with some dark irroration and a discoidal spot. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), Hall Valley (Barnes). Exp., 6 40, 9 42 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *413. Euxoa testula. (Plate LXIII. fig. 16.) Carneades testula, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 440 (1900). 3g. Creamy grey irrorated with black ; tegulee with a faint medial line; thorax clothed with long flattened hair, Fore wing with all the markings diffused, obscure ; subbasal line double, interrupted, blackish ; antemedial line double, diffused at costa, then slender, erect, excurved in interspaces; claviform small, defined by a few black scales only; orbicular rounded, defined by black; reniform On” FUXOA. 201 large, broad, narrowly defined by black; medial shade faint, diffused, angled at middle and darkening the space between the stigmata; postmedial line double, blackish, the inner line stronger and lunulate, the outer less prominent, more diffused and lunulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then inecurved; subterminal line irregular, interrupted, pale, defined by a dark shade before it on costa, then by irroration before or beyond it; a terminal series of small fuscous lunules, and a fine yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing greyish white, with a rather broad fuscous terminal band; cilia whitish, with a yellowish line at base ; veins and discoidal lunule fuscous; the underside grey with dark irroration, a discoidal spot. Hab. Canavs, Br. Columbia, Calgary (Dod). Exp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *414. Euxoa tocoye. (Plate LXIII. fig. 17.) Carneades tocoye, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 433 (1900). ¢. Pale duli brick-red over a yellowish ground-colour ; thorax clothed with flattened hair. Fore wing with the markings slightly darker, the lines double and filled in by yellowish; subbasal line double, waved ; antemedial line nearly erect, excurved in inter- spaces ; claviform hardly traceable; orbicular small, round, defined by yellow ; reniform moderate, rather narrow, with blackish centre and yellowish annulus; medial shade narrow, blackish, rather irregular and excuryed ; postmedial line double, the outer indistinct, even, the inner crenulate, brown, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, irregular, interrupted, defined by a dark shade on inner side, the veins beyond it tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of small black lunules and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish, suffused with fuscous towards termen, the veins and a discoidal lunule fuscous ; cilia yellowish at base, with a brown medial line and white tips; the underside dull yellowish, with darker irroration and a small black discoidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., California, High Sierras (Dyar). Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *415, Euxoa audentis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 18.) Carneades audentis, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 51, pl. iii. f. 9 (1894). Pale whitish luteous, sparscly irrorated with black; frons dusky with a blackish line above; tegule more strongly irrorated with black at base; thorax clothed with hair. Fore wing with the costa irrorated with black, diffused towards apex, subbasal line double, black, distinet; antemedial line double, the inner line represented by_a few black scales, the outer distinct, black, nearly 238 NOCTUID®. erect, excurved below cell and above inner margin; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform a small black lunule; a broad medial dark shade, angled at middle; postmedial line double towards costa, then single, narrow, crenulate, black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed; subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by a dark shade on its inner side, the area beyond it blackish ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, with dusky discoidal lunule, a postmedial line and broad terminal band; cilia white; the underside with postmedial line, and in male a discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Exp, 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof, Smith’s figure. *416, Euxoa medialis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 19.) Agrotis medialis, Smith, Pr. U.S, Nat. Mus. x. p. 459 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with ochreous and pale brown. Fore wing ochreous-white irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line very indistinct, double, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line somewhat more distinct, double, waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform with undefined fuscous centres, the former round; an indistinct medial shade oblique from costa to median nervure, where it is angled, then inwardly oblique; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by fuscous on its inner side and slightly angled at veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white; the veins, a discoidal point, the termen, and a fine terminal line pale brown. Underside white, the fore wing and costal area of hind wing irrorated with pale brown. ©. Hind wing more suffused with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado (Bruce), in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 46 millim. 417. Euxoa feniseca. (Plate LXIII. fig. 20.) Agrotis feniseca, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe, Nat. Sci. iii. p. 74, pl. 3. f. 6 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. g. Head and thorax pale ochreous brown pencilled with dark brown; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with medial indistinct dark line ; abdomen ochreous brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing ochreous brown; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved ante- medial line, dentate outwards in cell; the claviform indistinct with blackish outline ; the orbicular and reniform with blackish outline, the former round and large, the latter large; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; an irregularly dentate subterminal line; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line mat EUXOA. 239 brownish; the underside with discal point and some postmedial points on the veins. . 2. Hind wing suffused with brown except in cell, the underside with discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 9, California (Walsingham), 10 2, Sanzalito, 4 g,7 2 type. Hwp. 44 millim. *418. Euxoa difformis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 21.) Carneades difformis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 441 (1600). Dull grey or fuscous with dark irroration ; tegule with fuscous medial line ; thorax clothed with fine hair mixed with flattened hair. Fore wing with the markings rather coarse ; subbasal line double, black, slender, very close to base; antemedial line oblique, double, excurved in interspaces and interrupted at the veins, the inner line fine, brown, the outer strong, black ; claviform small,almost obsolete or fairly prominent ; orbicular moderate or small, rounded, grey defined by black; reniform moderate or rather small, somewhat constricted at middle, with fuscous centre and fine black outline ; medial shade slightly curved ; postmedial line double, the outer even, brown, the inner strong black or fuscous, lunulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line irregularly sinuous, grey, defined on inner side by a broad irreguiar shade often intersected with grey at veins, the terminal area with dusky irroration; a terminal series of black or brown lunules ; cilia yellowish fuscous. Hind wing white, with a yellowish tinge in male, yellowish tinged with fuscous in female, the veins and a discoidal lunule darker; the male with traces of postmedial line, the area beyond it slightly tinged with fuscous; a dark terminal line ; the underside whitish, with distinct discoidal spot and broad blackish postmedial line. Antenne with the serrations long. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon (Schaus). Hvp. 30-33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mas. 419, Euxoa grisescens. Noctua grisescens, Fabr. Ent, Syst. 3, ii. p. 110 (1794) ; Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 193; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ii. p. 332, f. 418; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Noctua candelisequa, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 493 (1827). ? Noctua ignicola, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 546 (1827). Agrotis corresa, Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Nocet. {. 141 (1845). Agrotis latens, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur, pl. 180. f. 2 (1882). Agrotis thiunschanica, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 339 (1899), Agrotis hyrcana, Staud. Lris, xii. p. 389 (1899). Head and thorax brownish grey tinged with fuscous; palpi blackish except at tips; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brownish grey, dorsally irrorated with fuscous, Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with black ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved black antemedial line, slightly angled outwards below costa; orbicular and reniform 240 NOCTUID®. very indistinctly defined by blackish, and with a quadrate black spot between them on the more or less developed diffused waved medial shade; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line defined by diffused black on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; the terminal area fuscous brown; cilia white; the underside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a curved brown post- medial line to both wings. Ab. 1. thianschanica. Smaller; fore wing greyish white with the markings less prominent.—Ili; Thianschin Mts. Ape 2s hyreana. Yellowish grey ; the wings almost without markings below,—Persia. Hab. France, Pyrenees, Cannes, Leech Coll.; Iraty; Swrrzer- LAND, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Hungary and Siesta, mountains ; Scanpinavta; Persra; E. Turxesran, Ili, Thianschin Mts. vp. 40-42 millim. Larva. Ruhl, Soe. Ent. i. p- 138. Head yellow-green with dark points; body fuscous green with dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral white lines and oblique dark subdorsal marks. Food-plant, Leontodon taravacum. 420. Euxoa decora. Noctua decora, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 313 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur, Schmett. Noct. f.45; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 84, pl. 78; Hea: Schaff. Schmett. Eur. il. p 384. f. 459; Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pl. 81. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. ees Nectua nebulosa, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 402 (1827). Agrotis marcens, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (1893). Agrotis lividu, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144 (1901). Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown; tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown, and with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing grey mixed with pale brown ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line; claviform sometimes present, yellowish ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, whitish or yellowish, the former round, a waved medial shade passing between them, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled; a dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line whitish, defined by dark suffusion on inner side, obscurely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish; the veins brown; the terminal area suffused with brown; cilia white with a brown line near base; underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. livida. Much darker; fore wing leaden grey ; hind wing fuscous.—High Alps; Caucasus. EUXOA. 241 Hab, 8. France, Leech Coll., ? Pyrenees; GurMany; AvstRIA, Leech Coll. ; Swrrzertanp, Zeller & Frey Colls.; [vaty; Caucasus ; Armenia, Kasikoporan. vp. 38-42 millim. 421. Euxoa simplonia. Noctua simplonia, Geyer, Samm]. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 798, 799 (1827) ; Boisd. Ic. Lép. Eur, pl. 82. ff. 1,3; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 209, pl. 19. f.5; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. ff. 478, 479; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; palpi black-brown ; tegule with dark brown medial band; pectus and legs mostly black-brown, the tarsi with white rings; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with brown; the costa yellowish ; a waved subbasal brown line from costa to submedian fold, with a yellowish patch beyond its lower extremity; an irregularly waved strong antemedial brown line ; claviform only defined by a yellowish patch beyond it; orbicular obsolete; reniform small, fuscous, with a yellowish patch before it in cell; a medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; a postmedial brown line strong, dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, obscurely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle: a terminal series of dark points; cilia yellow. Hind wing fuscous brown, deeper towards termen; cilia ochreous white; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. Ab. 1. Fore wing more suffused and irrorated with brown, the yellow obsolescent. Hab. Francn, Pyrenees, Leech Coll. ; Swrrzertanp, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ivaty. wp. 40 millim. 422. Kuxoa culminicola. Agrotis culminicola, Staud. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 107; Mill. Ic. pl. 148. ff, 2,-3; Stndf. Iris, i. p. 211, pl. 10. ff. 1,2, & pl. 11. f. 1 (genit.); Hofm. Gr, Schm. ed. ii. pl. 54. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. ¢g. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale fuscous, suffused with pale yellow scales and irrorated with black ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular represented by a fuscous point ; reniform indistinct, fuscous ; a slight medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, somewhat incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; faint traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia yellow irrorated with black. Hind wing whitish, suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, especially towards termen ; cilia pale yellow ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. VOL. IV. R 249 NOCLUID®. Hab. Swirzertanp, High Alps, Gorner Grat, 3 ¢, Frey Coll. Exp. 42-46 millim. *423, Euxoa vallus. (Plate LXIII. fig. 22.) ‘urneades vallus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 480 (1900). 2. Pale luteous suffused with pale grey ; palpi yellow in front, fuscous at sides; vertex of head and base of tegule whitish, the latter tipped with yellowish hair; head and thorax clothed with hair, tipped with yellowish posteriorly. Fore wing thickly irrorated with black, especially beyond the antemedial line; the lines single ; subbasal line distinct, blackish, excurved from costa to vein | ; ante- medial line fuscous, curved, excurved in interspaces especially below cell; orbicular moderate, round, rather paler than ground- colour; reniform moderate, with dusky centre and incomplete outline ; medial shade broad, diffused, somewhat angled outwards at middle; postmedial line indistinct, crenulate, unusually near termen, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique: subterminal line represented by an obscure series of dark spots. Hind wing pale fuscous grey, the terminal area hardly darker ; the veins and discoidal lunule rather darker; the underside silky yellowish grey, with blackish streak in cell, slight discoidal spot, and traces of postmedial line. : Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Laggan, 5000 ft. (Bean). Eap. 40 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *424, Kuxoa luteosita. (Plate LXIII. fig. 23.) Carneades lutcositus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 483 (1900). Dull luteous, the thorax and fore wing tinged with rufous ; thorax clothed with hair. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas pale, the medial area shaded with rufous and blackish; the lines distinct; the subbasal line single, waved from costa to sub- median fold ; antemedial line single, waved, somewhat excurved in submedian fold ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular large, pale, rounded ; reniform with dusky centre and pale annulus; medial shade indistinct, diffused, more prominent in female; postmedial line produced to slight points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line very even, defined by a series of small dentate dark marks on inner side ; a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing dark fuscous, paler at base; a dark discoidal lunule; cilia yellowish; the underside pale reddish luteous, a discoidal lunule and incomplete postmedial line. Antenne of male with the serrations slight and the fasciculate cilia short. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley (Barnes). vp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. EUXOA. 243 *425. EKuxoa extranea. Agrotis extranea, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 459 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. @. Dark ashen grey. Fore wing with the lines distinct; the subbasal line well-marked ; the antemedial line indistinctly double, erect, slightly lunulate in interspaces; orbicular and reniform distinctly defined by blackish, the former small, round, the latter erect, rather narrow ; a distinct diffused medial shade; postmedial line even, bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then in- curved, slightly sinuous towards inner margin; subterminal line very irregular, only defined by the area beyond it being rather darker. Hind wing yellowish fuscous ; the underside with dark irroration, discoidal lunule, and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Montana. “vp. 37 millim. This species is un- known to me. *426. Kuxoa trifasciata. Agrotis trifasciata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 460 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. 2. Deep red-brown slightly irrorated with bluish grey. Fore wing with the lines black; the subbasal line prominent; the antemedial line far from base, single, erect, slightly irregular ; claviform very,small but prominent ; orbicular large, round, irrorated with grey and partly defined by black; reniform defined by black, the sides marked with yellowish scales ; medial shade darkening the cell between the stigmata, then approximated to the postmedial line, which is single, somewhat diffused, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, punc- tiform, very even. Hind wing fuscous; the underside irrorated with reddish grey, a slight postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Mount Hood. wp. 37 millim. This pecies is unknown to me. *427. Kuxoa bifasciata. (Plate LXIIT. fig. 24.) Agrotis bifasciata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 460 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. ¢. Fore wing ferruginous at base, shading into blackish towards termen; the lines broad, single, black, approximated ; subbasal line prominent; antemedial line slightly waved, oblique; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform traceable, but very faint; medial shade nearly straight, even, touching the postmedial line at costa and inner margin; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing reddish fuscous ; the underside ochreous tinged with fuscous, some dark irroration, a discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, Evp, 35 millim. This species is un- known to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. RZ 244 NOCTUIDA. *428, Euxoa comosa. Agrotis comosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 288 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. $. Rather pale brick-red; thorax clothed with hair. Fore wing with the lines blackish; antemedial line double, erect, ex- curved in interspaces ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform dusky lunulate ; medial shade well-defined, erect, almost in middle of medial area; postmedial line single, very strongly crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line sinuous, defined on inner side by a dark shade, the area beyond it rather dark. Hind wing reddish fuscous; the underside irrorated with reddish, an indistinct discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado. Hap. 37 millim. This species is un- known to me. *429, Euxoa dacota. Carneades dakota, Smith, P. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 442 (1900), 3. Clay-yellow irrorated with fuscous; thorax clothed with coarse, somewhat flattened hair. Fore wing with the markings blackish ; subbasal line prominent, double, the two parts well separated ; antemedial line with double spots at costa, then single, erect or somewhat oblique, excurved in interspaces and defined by pale colour on inner side ; clavyiform obsolete; orbicular obsolete or represented by a dark point; reniform blackish or fuscous ; medial shade broad, diffused, almost erect ; postmedial line double at costa, then single, slender, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line represented by a slight dark shade ; a terminal series of fuscous lunules. Hind wing dirty grey at base, the terminal area fuscous; cilia nearly white; the underside whitish with dark irroration, a dark dis- coidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Dakota. Hep. 32-34 millim, This species is unknown to me. 430. Euxoa brocha. (Plate LXIII. fig. 25.) Agrotis brocha, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci, Phil. 1875, p. 66; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. : Q@. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey with a slight purplish tinge, some of the scales tipped with brown, especially on patagia ; palpi black-brown at sides, except towards tips; tegule with the basal half and front of thorax black-brown; legs tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish grey, irrorated with black, the costal half striated and suffused with red-brown ; faint traces of a rufous antemedial line ; orbicular a fuscous point ; reniform small, fuscous, with a somewhat oblique rufous line from it to inner margin; the postmedial line represented by an oblique series of very short black streaks on veins 6 to 1; traces of a sinuous rufous subterminal line; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia pale, with two EUXOA. 945 brown lines through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on marginal areas; the veins brown; a discoidal point and postmedial points on veins 5 to 2; a lunulate terminal line; cilia white, with a brown line through them; underside with prominent postmedial streaks on veins 8 to 2. Hab. U.S.A., Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, 1 9, Grote Coll., Nevada. vp. 38 millim. gg. French, Can, Ent. xxvii. p. 832 (1895). Diam. and height ‘03 inch; blunt, conical, tapering abruptly to base ; with about 60 longitudinal strie, of which about 30 reach the micropyle, and with indistinct cross strie; centre of micropyle a rounded eminence; colour grey or whitish, irregularly blotched with red. Larva. Young; length :07 inch; cylindrical; colour smoky- white ; head black; warts moderate, with a whitish hair from each. 2nd stage: ‘15 inch; pale greenish brown; head black; warts small, black; a small cervical shield. Food-plants: clover and radish in confinement. 431. Euxoa trux. Noctua trux, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 723, 725, 770 (1826) ; Boisd. Icon. Lép. Eur. pl. 79. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Agrotis lenticulosa, Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 72. ff. 5, 6 (1826). Agrotis terranea, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. 34. 1 (1827). Agrotis lunigera, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 113, pl. 20. f. 2 (1829). Agrotis olivina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152 (1901). Agrotis amasina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152 (1901). Head and thorax ochreous, suffused with rufous to fuscous brown, irrorated with grey ; palpi with dark band near extremity of 2nd joint ; tibiee and tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous grey, strongly irrorated, striated, and largely suffused with pale rufous or fuscous brown; the subbasal line indistinct, double, waved from costa to vein 1; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner margin ; claviform moderate, more or less strongly outlined with black, sometimes filled in with black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and pale annuli defined by brown or black, the former rather small, round, the latter placed on the diffused medial shade ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to minute white points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by brown suffusion or small dentate black marks on inner side; a terminal series of black points ; cilia pale rufous, with a fine brown line through them. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area fuscous brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown; a postmedial series of strive on the veins. Ab. 1. olivina. Fore wing with a slight greenish or violaceous tinge. 246 NOCTUIDAE. Ab. 2. terranea. Fore wing ochreous or pale rufous. Ab. 3. amasina. Fore wing fuscous grey, darker in female, with the medial shade blackish. Ab. 4. lunigera. Fore wing suffused with dark brown in male, fuscous in female; the claviform filled in with black ; the orbicular white defined by black.—Britain, south. Hab. Brirain, south, Zeller & Leech Colls.; France, south, Zeller Coll.; Swirzprtanp, Frey Coll.; Sparn; Ivaty; Sicity; Darmatra; Aterers; Canarigs; 8. Russra, Sarepta, 1 9, Zeller Coll.; Asta Minor, Pontus. xp. 38-44 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 92; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 315, pl. 128. f. 1. Dull brownish, greyer at sides, sometimes tinged with greenish ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines slightly paler, sometimes dark-edged ; head brownish, marked with black; thoracic plate blackish, intersected by the yellow dorsal line. Food-plants : Polygonum, Chenopodium, Plantago. 8-10. 432. Euxoa psammophea. (Plate LXIII. fig. 26.) Agrotis psammophea, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 151 (1899). 3. Head pale red-brown; palpi blackish; tegule with the basal half black, the tips pale; thorax pale red-brown, irrorated with black or deep ferruginous brown; legs mostly blackish ; abdomen pale brown suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing ochreous or reddish brown irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin; claviform more or less pro- minently defined by black ; orbicular and reniform blackish, some- times connected by a black streak, the former round ; traces of an oblique waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by pale points on dentate black marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous brown suffused with fuscous ; a dark terminal line ; the underside paler ; the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of points. @. Thorax and fore wing suffused with black. Hab, Hawa, Haleakala (Perkins), 2 ¢, 1 9 type. Exp. 40 millim., 433. Euxoa sculptilis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 27.) Agrotis SETS Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1874) ; id. iii. p- 73, pl. 3. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 95. Cammede xylinifor més, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 221 (1890). 3. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; tegule with a black medial line and reddish-brown tips; patagia “blackish at extremities; abdomen grey strongly irrorated with brown, the BUXOA. DAT anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with the basal half grey, irrorated with brown, the terminal halt black-brown; a double black subbasal line from costa to vein 1, angled inwards on vein 1; a double sinuous antemedial line strongly angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; the claviform large, elongate, defined by black; the orbicular large, round, black-edged; the outer edge of the grey area angled on median nervure; the reniform large, black-edged, rather indistinct ; the postmedial lime double, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; faint traces of an irregular subterminal line. Hind wing white irrorated with brown; the veins and a terminal line brown; the underside with discoidal point and indistinct minutely-waved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, New Mexico, 1 ¢ type. Hap, 44 millim. 434. Euxoa dedala. Acronycta dedala, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 260, pl. 26. f. 8 (1889). 2. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi with some black at sides ; tegulee with blackish medial line; tarsi with whitish rings; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dark grey irrorated with black, the terminal half suffused with fuscous, except towards costa beyond the medial line ; a fine double, waved, black subbasal line trom costa to submedian fold ; a similar antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; claviform, orbicular, and reniform large, defined by fine black lines; a medial black shade diffused on outer side and angled on median nervure ; the postmedial line double, indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4; traces of a dentate subterminal line, with a dark patch before it on costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, strongly suffused with dark brown, less so towards base; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish, strongly irrorated with black-brown, two discoidal points, an indistinct curved postmedial line, and terminal series of black striz. Hab. GuatEMAaLa, Quezaltenango, 7800 feet (Champion), 1 ° type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap, 36 millim. 435. Euxoa murdoci. (Plate LXIII. fig. 28.) Agrotis murdocki, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 49 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. Head and thorax ferruginous brown, slightly mixed with grey ; abdomen ochreous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing ferruginous brown, the medial area suffused with bluish grey ; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line evenly curved, double, the inner line brown, the outer black ; claviform wanting; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by some black scales on inner and outer edges and 248 NOCTUID®. with ferruginous in cell between them, the orbicular round, the reniform with fuscous centre; the postmedial line minutely dentate, black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, and with some fuscous suffusion on its inner side; the termen fuscous, its inner edge representing the subterminal line, which is sinuous and angled inwards at discal fold; a terminal series of dark points; cilia rufous. Hind wing brown tinged with fuscous, rather darker in female; cilia pale brown at base, white at tips: underside whitish, with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, curved postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Hab, Canava, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., Utah, California ( Walsing- ham), 1 $6.19. Hap. 32 millim. 436. Euxoa cursoria. Phalena cursoria, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 416 (1767); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 540; Boisd. Ic. Lép. Eur. pl. 79. £.3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Noctua mixta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 118 (1794). Noctua sagitta, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 596 (1827). Agrotis obscura, Staud. Cat. Lep. ed. ii. p. 86 (1871). Agrotis cespitis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pl. 9. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 184. Agrotis sagittata, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 26. Agrotis currens, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 249 (1896). Agrotis vaga, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 250 (1896). Head and thorax grey, ochreous or red-brown, often irrorated with darker brown or black: tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous or red-brown, usually with darker irroration; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform usually with its extremity defined by brown; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, usually with greyish centres and whitish annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter usually with blackish patch in its lower extremity: an indistinct oblique waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the sub- terminal line pale, defined on each side by brown and with darker patches before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area tinged with brown; the under- side whiter, with dark discoidal point and terminal series of black points. Ab. 1. vaga. Fore wings uniform brownish grey.—C. Asia. Ab. 2. currens. Darker; hind wings entirely suffused with brown.—C. Asia. Ab. 3. obscura. Fore wings almost uniform red or red-brown, the orbicular and reniform prominently annulated with white. Ab. 4. sagittata. Fore wings suffused with red-brown, the costal EUXOA, 249: area to the postmedial line, the orbicular and reniform, and the area before the subterminal line whitish. Ab. 5. Hind wing entirely white.— Asia Minor. Hab. Brrraty, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Russta, Livonia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Asza Minor, Hadjin; W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 9; E. TurKesran, Ili; Moneorra, Uliasatai, 1 ¢, 2 9, Changai Mts.; Trser, Amdo ; AFGHANISTAN, Quetta (Swinhoe), 1 ¢, type cespitis. Eup. 34-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 94; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 329, pl. 129. Pale ochreous tinged with greenish; dorsal line pale, green- edged ; subdorsal and spiracuiar lines whitish, edged with grey or greenish ; head pale ochreous. Food-plants: grasses, Arenaria, Artemisia, etc. 5-6. 437. Euxoa friabilis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 29.) Agrotis friabilis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 187, pl. 1. f. 5 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. Q. Head and thorax dull brown, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides except at extremity ; tarsi with blackish bands; abdomen grey, strongly irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull brown, irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; the subbasal line almost obsolete; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; clayiform indistinct, defined by a few black scales ; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by black, the former rather elongate, elliptical, the latter well-developed with its centre defined by fuscous; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, with a dark mark on its inner side at costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white suffused with brown, especially on terminal half ; the veins brown; cilia white with a brownish line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point. Hab, Canava, 1 2 type, Ontario, London (W. Saunders), 1° ; U.S.A., E. States, Maine, New York, Oregon, Dales, 2 ¢, Colorado, California (Walsingham), 2 6. Exp. 36 millim. 438. Euxoa nigricans. Noctua nigricans, Linn, Faun. Suec. p. 322 (1761); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ». 149. Noctiea fumosa, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. 1. 5. p. 2574 (1788); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 153; Godt. Lép. Fr. y. pl. 70. ff. 3,4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 124. Noctua rubricans, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 130. ff. 2, 3 (1786). Noctua ursina, Godt. Lép. Fr. y. pl. 71. f. 3 (1824). Noctua fuliginea, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 602 (1827) ; Godt. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 78. ff. 5, 6. Noctua carbonea, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 700, 701 (1827). Noctua vilis, Hibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 511 (1827). 250 NOCTUIDE. Head and thorax dark brown, mixed ochreous or grey or suffused with purplish or vinous red; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulee with black medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey tinged with brown, or dark brown. Fore wing dark fuscous brown, irrorated with grey or ochreous, sometimes suffused with purple or purple-red ; the subbasal line represented by black striz below costa and cell, defined by greyish on outer side; the antemedial line double, waved, somewhat oblique, black filled in with greyish ; the claviform slightly defined by black, connected with base by an obsolescent streak in submedian fold and sometimes also with the postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, and greyish or ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, sometimes elliptical and produced on inner side, some black often present in cell and beyond orbicular; a waved medial shade ; postmedial line black, defined by ochreous or grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line represented by a series of greyish or ochreous points with small dentate black marks on their inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas suffused with fuscous brown, in female almost entirely suffused; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal spot. Ab. 1. rubricans. Paler and tinged with red. Hab. Brirain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; Franon, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austria ; SwitZERLAND, Frey Coll. ; Scanpinavia; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta (Christoph) ; Arment ; Asta Minor, Pontus; W. TurKesran, Ala Tau, Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Ili; Moneorra, Changai Mts. ; TiseT, Amdo; Srppria; Amurtanp. Hep, 32-40 millim. Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 92; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 338, pl. 150. Ochreous or ochreous brown, sides light grey-green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale grey-green edged with blackish ; spiracular line blackish green; subspiracular line double, whitish ; head marked with blackish. Food-plants: Z'rifolium, Plantago, Heracleum, ete. 4-6. 439, Euxoa nyctopis, n. sp. (Plate LXIIT. fig. 30.) Head and thorax reddish brown irrorated with white; pectus brown and grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown, the basal area irrorated with grey; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; adouble, waved, somewhat oblique antemedial line ; claviform slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform fuscous defined by black, the former round, the latter with whitish annulus; traces of a waved medial line; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a whitish subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it tinged EUXOA. 25ill with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially on terminal area; the veins brown; the cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, traces of a curved postmedial line and diffused dark subterminal band. Ab. 1. Thorax with the ground-colour black-brown ; fore wing dark brown with the double lines filled in with whitish—Kuijar. Hab, Kasumir, Dras (Leech), 1 3, 1 2 type, Kuijar (McArthur), 1 g. Hap. 40 millim. 440. Euxoa intrita. (Plate LXIII. fig. 31.) Agrotis intrita, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xvii. p. 164 (1874); Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 68; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. 6. Head and thorax ferruginous brown, sometimes strongly tinged with black and irrorated with a few white scales ; abdomen whitish brown, the ventral surface tinged with ferruginous and with a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing nearly uniform ferruginous brown with the markings indistinct, or largely suffused with black with the markings more distinct; a subbasal rufous line from costa to vein 1; a waved antemedial black double line filled in with rufous and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; the claviform outlined with black; the orbicular and reniform with dark centres and rufous edges defined by black lines, the former round, the latter well-developed ; a medial shade or well-defined irregular line from costa to inner margin near the postmedial line, which is minutely dentate, defined by rufous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct or almost obsolete, formed by aseries of dentate black marks with slight rufous marks beyond them; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area yellowish brown ; cilia whitish, with a brown line near base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I., 2¢ type, Grote Coll.’ (J. J. Walker) 1 3; U.S.A., California, Arizona. ap. 40 millim. 441. Euxoa rubefactalis. (Plate LXIII. fig. 32.) Agrotis rubefactalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 154 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 97. Head and thorax reddish brown irrorated with black: palpi white at extremity of 2nd joint; tegule with black medial line ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft pale fulvous. Fore wing grey-brown, slightly tinged with rufous and strongly irrorated and suffused with black ; the subbasal and antemedial lines pale defined by black, waved, the former from costa to submedian fold, the latter angled outwards in submedian fold; the orbicular and reni- form pale, defined by black lines and with fuscous centres, the former round, the latter moderately large; the postmedial line 252 NOCTUIDAE. black, defined by pale brownish on outer side, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line pale, defined by a fuscous shade on inner side, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle ; a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing ochreous brown, the veins and terminal area rather darker; cilia white at tips; the underside irrorated with brown, with small discoidal lunule and traces of postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab, U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 ¢, 2 9, Grote Coll. type, Colorado. EHap., ¢ 36, 9 38 millim. *449, Euxoa holoberba. (Plate LXIV. fig. 2.) Carneades holoberba, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 443 (1900); id. Can. _ Ent. xxxii. pl. v. f. 9. 2. Dull fuscous brown with a purplish shade; tegule with distinct black medial line, with purplish grey above it; thorax clothed with scales and flattened hair. Fore wing with the markings distinct, the lines blackish, double, filled in with rather pale colour ; subbasal line evenly excurved ; antemedial line erect or slightly oblique, slightly waved, the inner line less distinct ; claviform small, defined by black and a few pale scales ; orbicular small or moderate, round or elliptical, pale, with a few dark scales at centre; reniform moderate, incomplete above and below, its centre defined by black, and with pale annulus defined by brown ; the cell slightly darker between the stigmata, medial shade in- distinct ; postmedial line sharply bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line distinct, pale, more or less interrupted, somewhat angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, defined on inner side by a somewhat dentate shade and the area beyond it somewhat darker ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing dull fuscous brown; cilia somewhat paler; the underside fuscous with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Dod). Ep. 38 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 443. Euxoa intolerabilis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 3.) Agrotis intolerabilis, Ping. Iris, xv. p. 147 (1902). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; abdomen yellowish brown. Fore wing dark brown, suffused with purplish grey ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform represented by a slight dark point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by blackish, the former round, an indistinct waved medial line passing between them; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a pale sub- EUXOA. 253 ‘terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous with a brown line through ‘them ; the underside paler, the costal and terminal areas-irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Treet, Kuku Nor, 2 6,29. wp. 40 millim. 444. Euxoa brevirami. (Plate LXIV. fig. 4.) Agrotis brevirami, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183 (1894). 3. Dark brown; head and thorax with a reddish tinge, the scales and hairs tipped with ochreous. Fore wing with traces of subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reuiform very indistinct, greyish ; a dark medial shade oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by paler brown on _ outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line pale brown, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and -excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points ; both wings with fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hab. Punsas, Murree (Harford), 1 3 type. Hp. 34 millim. 445. Euxoa conspicua. Noctua conspicua, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 718-9 (1827); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. Agrotis agricola, Boisd. Ind. Meth. Add. p. 3 (1829). Agrotis lycarwim, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ii. p. 333, ff 122-4 1846). pone Beas Ry. Bull. Mose, 1856, 11. p. 181. Head and thorax brown, mixed with grey and irrorated with black ; ‘tegulee with blackish medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdo- men grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey, suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform slightly outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform large, grey, defined by black, often with fuscous centres, the former oblique, elliptical; a diffused, waved, medial line ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a pale subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4 and 3, defined by a dentate fuscous brown band on its inner side, interrupted below costa and with some brown beyond it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially towards termen and inner margin; the veins brown; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; the under- side white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, a curved postmedial series of short streaks -on the yeins, a terminal series of points. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings indistinct. 954. NOCTUID&. Hab. France, Leech Coll.; Spain; Canaries; Greece; S. Russia ; Armenta, Caucasus, Leech Coll.; Asta Minor; Syria ; Persta, Sharud, Zeller Coll.; W. Turkestan, Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 4 ¢,3 2, Leech Coll.; Amur, 2 ¢, 29; Kasumir, Kokser (McArthur), 1 3, Barra Larcha, 1 g, 1 2, Dras (Leech), 1 9; Punsas, Rawal Pindi, 1 6,19. Exp. 44-50 millim. +46. Euxoa septentrionalis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 5.) Mamestra septentrionalis, W1k. xxxii. 660 (1865). . Carneades incubita, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 435 (1900). ©. Head and thorax grey, mixed with pale brownish and black ; tegule with black medial line; abdomen brownish grey, the ventral surface white irrorated with fuscous, and with sublateral series of black strie, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with black ; a double, waved, subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line oblique, double, waved, and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform moderate, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them and the disk beyond reniform suffused with black ; a waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it clearer grey: the subterminal line pale, excurved at vein 7 and slightly dentate at middle, defined by a series of small dentate blackish marks on its inner side, and the area beyond it darker; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas broadly suffused with fuscous brown; cilia white, with a brownish line at base; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and terminal series of black points. Hab. Canapa, Vancouver 1. (Hawkins), 1 2 type; U.S.A., Oregon, Corvallis, 1 9, California. Hp. 40 millim. *447, Euxoa mitis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 6.) Carneades mitis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 49, pl. iii. f. 10 (1894). Reddish luteous irrorated with black. Fore wing with the lines indistinct ; subbasal line very near base, single, blackish; ante- medial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer blackish, somewhat oblique, excurved in interspaces; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, rather large; an indistinct medial shade darkening the cell between the stigmata in the male; postmedial line crenulate, single, blackish, slightly defined on outer side by a pale shade, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line somewhat pale, rather irregular, defined on inner side by an obscure dark shade; a terminal series EUXOA, 955. of dark points and a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the underside with discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes). Hap. 80-34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof. Smith’s plate. 448. Euxoa perturbata. (Plate LXIV. fig. 7.) Carneades perturbata, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 222 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 97. ¢. Rather pale ochreous fuscous; head and thorax with black scales mixed ; patagia indistinctly edged with black. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas paler than the medial and terminal areas; the lines double; the subbasal line double, black ; ante- medial line distinct, the inner line nearly as strong as the outer, oblique, excurved in interspaces; claviform distinctly defined by black; orbicular rather small, irregularly rounded, with fuscous centre and pale annulus defined by black; reniform rather con- stricted at middle, somewhat pale, defined by black, and tinged with fuscous at extremities ; medial shade rather indistinct and nearly erect ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the inner line distinct, lunulate, the outer line even, fuscous; subterminal line only defined by the dark terminal area and marked by a few irregularly placed black points, irregular and distinctly dentate on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a pale line at base. Hind wine pure white. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Cockerell), 1 3. Exp. 34 millim. 449. Euxoa objurgata. (Plate LXIV. fig. 8.) Carneades oljurgata, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 448 (1900). 2. Head and thorax grey-brown, irrorated with black and a few white scales; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wing grey-brown, tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, the outer line strong, black ; a double, waved antemedial line, the outer line very strong and deep black ; claviform moderate, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former produced to a slight point on inner side, a black fascia in cell before and between them; an indistinct oblique waved medial shade from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line strong, black, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale brown, defined by fuscous on inner side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous and with terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, deeper towards termen ; the cilia white ; the under- side white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown and 256 NOCIUIDA. irrorated with fuscous, a prominent discoidal lunule and strong postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Dakota, Washington, Pullman, Oregon, Corvallis, 19. ep. 36 millim. 450. Euxoa messoria. Agrotis messoria, Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. "N. Am. p. 96. Agrotis spissa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 261 (1852). Mamestra insulsa, W1k. ix. 234 (1856). Mamestra inextricata, W1k. xxxii. 658 (1865). Mamestra indirecta, W1\k. xxxii. 659 (1865). Mamestra displiciens, W1k. xxxii. 660 (1865). Mamestra expulsa, W\k. xxxii. 661 (1865). Agrotis ordinata, Wk. xxxii. 691 (1865). Agrotis reticens, Wik. xxii. 692 (1865). Agrotis cochrani, Riley, Prairie Farmer, July 1868. Ra 3 Agrotis repentis, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 300, pl. 7. f. 58 1868). Pi: eae Morr. MS., Smith, Bull. U.S. Mus. 38. p. 169 (1890). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-brown ; abdomen rather paler brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated and suffused with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; the claviform outlined with black and usually indistinct ; the orbicular and reniform with dark outlines, the former rounded, oblique, elliptical, elongate, or sometimes trian- eular and open above, the latter large; a strongly dentate postmedial Fig. 61.—Euxoa messoria, 3. }. line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an irregularly sinuous subterminal line, usually with some dark marks on its inner edge, especially on costa, and the area beyond it rather darker ; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia brown, with fine grey lines through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins, costal, terminal and inner areas brown. Under- side with the terminal area of fore wing and the costal and terminal areas of hind wing irrorated with brown; both wings with discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. «3 Hab. Canapa, Nova Scotia (Redman) 6 6,1 9, (Norman) 3 3, 1 Q, Ontario 1 ¢, Renfrew Co. 1d, W. Canada, Orilla (Bushe) 1 9 type insulsa, Vancouver I. (Hawkins, J. J. Walker), 6 2 type EUXOA. 257 expulsa; U.S.A., Grote & Zeller Colls., 4 ¢,4 2, New York, 1 9, Washington Terr., 2 2, Colorado (Bruce), 1 g, Nevada, 2 2, Grote Coll., California, 1 9, Grote Coll. vp. 40-44 millim. Larva. Riley, Rep. Ent. 1885, p. 290, pl. iv. f.6, & 1886, p. 270, pl. 7. f. 1 (Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulations paler, dividing both the sides and a dark posterior shade into angular spots; curved vertical band distinct only at apex of clypeus and above, angled inward, mottled above. Body light brown, somewhat thin-skinned ; cervical shield brown, divided by a pale dorsal line and a light rather blotched subdorsal one. Dorsal space broadly pale, widened in the incisures, faintly shaded with brown, defining the narrow pale dorsal line; lateral space rather darkly brown, showing faintly a pale sub- dorsal line; substigmatal band broad, whitish, obscure. Tubercles small, obscure, brown; spiracles black. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 451. Euxoa atropulverea. (Plate LXIV. fig. 9.) Carneades atropulverea, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 428 (1900). 2. Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with fuscous ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, thickly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by obscure blackish points below costa and cell; the antemedial line very indistinct, double, waved ; claviform very faintly indicated ; orbicular and reniform very slightly defined by blackish scales ; medial shade obscure, angled at median nervure, diffused, the postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces of a subterminal line; an indistinct terminal series of small blackish lunules ; a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous, especially towards termen ; cilia white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. a blackish discoidal bar. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Denver, 1 2. Ewvp. 40 millim. 452. Euxoa micronyx. (Plate LXIV. fig. 10.) Agrotis micronyx, Grote, Bull, Geol. Sury. iv. p. 171 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p.-99. 2. Head and thorax dark red-brown, strongly mixed with grey and slightly irrorated with black; palpi blackish at sides; frons and vertex of head with some rufous hair; tegule with a black medial line; spurs and tarsal joints banded with black; abdomen grey-brown. ore wing dark brown strongly suffused with grey ; a minutely dentate subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, angled outwards in the interspaces, the inner line indistinct ; claviform moderate, distinctly outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black and with fuscous centres, the former round, the latter large and sometimes with excrescence on inner side; a more or less distinct waved medial shade from cell VoL. IV. 8 958 NOCTUID 2. to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line grey, with a slight rufous shade on its inner side and slightly dentate at veins 7, 4,3; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing brown, the veins rather darker; cilia whitish, with a dark line near base ; the underside whitish, with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a small discoidal lunule and rather ill-defined curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, 2 2 type, Grote Coll. Hp. 40 millim. 453. Euxoa hilaris. Agrotis hilaris, Fry. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. iii. p. 89, pl. 255. f. 4 (1839) ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Hur., Noct. f. 545; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis conifera, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 249, pl. 6. f. 23 (1877). Agrotis incognita, Staud, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 11; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing dull grey-brown irrorated with fuscous; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the former rounded ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined by slight dentate dark marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale brown ; the under- side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. incognita. Fore wing with the claviform smaller and filled in with black. Ab. 2. Head, thorax,and fore wing reddish brown, the claviform obsolescent.— Persia. Hab. Arwenta, Caucasus (Christoph), 3 36,2 9; Asta Minor, Pontus; Prrsta; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ¢, Ferghana, Sarawschan; W. Srperta, Altai; E. Srperia, Kentei. Lvp. 36 millim. 454, Euxoa terrena. (Plate LXIV. fig. 11.) Carneades terrenus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 486 (1900). g. Head and thorax brownish grey slightly irrorated with black ; tegule with slight black medial line ; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated witk black ; adouble, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, black ; claviform indicated by a few black scales; orbicular and reniform grey, incompletely defined by black, the cell before and between them tinged with black ; an obscure waved medial line angled outwards on median nervure; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, EBUXOA. 259 ereyish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous; the cilia whitish; the under- side with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A.,Washington, Pullman (Piper),1¢. Hp. 38 millim. *455. Euxoa laggane. (Plate LXIV. fig. 12.) Carneades laggane, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 489 (1900); id. Can. Ent. xxxil. pl. 5. f. 7. 3g. Dull dark ashen-grey with fuscous irroration ; tegule with a black medial line; thorax clothed with scales and flattened hair ; patagia edged with black scales. Fore wing with the subbasal line distinct, double, dentate; antemedial line double, the outer strong, black, the inner narrow and fuscous, oblique and excurved in inter- spaces, more strongly above inner margin ; claviform small, defined by fine black scales ; orbicular rather pale, defined by black, rounded; reniform narrow, slightly defined by black ; medial shade angled at middle and darkening the space between the stigmata; postmedial line double at costa, then single, produced to points on the veins and lunulate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line represented by irregularly placed pale scales, with dark scales on their inner side ; a terminal series of black lunules and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous grey; cilia with a yellow line at base; underside dull grey, with fuscous discoidal spot and broad diffused terminal band. Antenne with the serrations small and the tufts of cilia fine; fore wing broad and somewhat acute at apex. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Laggan (Bean). Exp. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *456. Euxoa ontario. (Plate LXIV. fig. 13.) Carneades ontario, Smith, Pr. U.S, Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 440 (1900). g. Dull smoky fuscous; head with brown transverse line ; tegule with dark medial shade ; thorax clothed with scales and hair. Fore wing with dark irroration, the medial area somewhat darker, the lines blackish ; the subbasal line double, interrupted in cell; ante- medial line almost erect, double, the inner line less distinct, irregularly excurved in interspaces; claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented by an undefined diffused pale spot ; reniform an oblong blackish spot incompletely defined by pale scales; medial shade indistinct ; postmedial line double from costa to vein 4, lunulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- terminal line represented by a few pale scales with a slight shade before them, more distinct at costa; a terminal series of brown lunules and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, with a yellowish tinge at base; the veins and discoidal lunule g2 260 NOCTUIDZ. blackish; cilia whitish; underside grey with dark irroration, a discoidal spot and broad diffused terminal band. Hab. Canava, Ontario, Sudbury. “ap. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *457, Euxoa quinquelinea. (Plate LXIV. fig. 14.) Agrotis quinquelinea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 49 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. @. Fuscous grey; tegule with a dark medial line; abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing with the lines blackish ; subbasal line distinct, single ; antemedial line distinct, single, erect, very slightly waved ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform barely traceable, the latter marked on inner side by a black point; medial line distinct, broad, very irregular; postmedial line single, fine, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by some pale scales defined on inner side by slight dentate dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine interrupted terminal line. Hind wing pale fuscous; the underside with dark irroration, discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Hap. 35 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *458. Euxoa itodes. (Plate LXIV. fig. 15.) Carneades titodes, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus, xxii. p. 438 (1900). 2. Very pale luteous suffused with pale rufous; palpi blackish at sides; tegulz with fuscous medial line ; thorax clothed with hair and scales. Fore wing with the markings pale fuscous brown, dis- tinct ; subbasal line double, waved, filled in with pale colour ; ante- medial line double, the inner less distinct, oblique, slightly excurved in interspaces ; claviform represented by a slight yellowish streak ; orbicular moderate, rounded, with some dusky scales at centre and yellowish annulus ; reniform moderate, extending a little below cell, with leaden-grey or fuscous centre and yellowish annulus; medial shade rather narrow, diffused, oblique and darkening the space between the stigmata; postmedial line single, dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line defined by an irregular shade on inner side most distinct at costa, and by the area beyond it being slightly darker; a terminal series of dusky lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, slightly darker before the distinct terminal line; underside white with a silky yellowish gloss, slight dark irroration, and small discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona (Barnes). Exp. 37-40 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. EUXOA. 261 *459. Euxoa pedalis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 16.) Carneades pedalis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 220 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing reddish yellow; tarsi ringed with black. Fore wing with the subbasal line double, pale, the outer line defined by dark scales; antemedial line double, pale, marked at costa by two black spots, defined by dark scales on inner side, even and almost erect; claviform obsolete ; orbicular small, round, with pale annulus; reniform moderate, with pale annulus filled in with dark irroration; a rather broad, blackish, somewhat irregular medial shade; postmedial line double, pale, marked on costa by black spots, defined on outer side by a curved black line reduced to irroration below the cell, the inner line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it with dark irroration, deepening to black towards termen, defining the pale subterminal line which is rather irregular and prominent except towards tornus, where the dark colour is more diffused ; a terminal series of small lunules. Hind wing pure white. Underside white; fore wings with a slight reddish suffusion. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Hap, 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *460. Euxoa teleboa. (Plate LXIX. fig. 12.) Carneades teleboa, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 219 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. Q. Pale luteous, faintly tinged with reddish ; tarsi ringed with black. Fore wing with the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete; elaviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform distinctly irrorated with black, ill-defined; medial shade broad, diffused, formed by black irroration ; postmedial line fine, very indistinct, slightly stronger at the veins; subterminal line indistinct, irregular, faintly traceable through the irroration of black scales that darkens the terminal area. Hind wing pure white. Hab, U.S.A., New Mexico, Las Vegas (Meske). Hep. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. *461. Euxoa recticincta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 17.) Carneades recticincta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 334, pl. xv. f. 7 (1895). 2. Pale straw-yellow with a luteous tinge. Fore wing with the lines barely traceable except at costa, where they are represented by single black points ; antemedial line erect, slightly waved ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented by a pale annulus ; reniform obscured by the diffused medial black shade, with its inner edge angled out- wards below cell; postmedial line minutely waved, bent otitwards 262 NOCTUIDAE. below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line represented by a few blackish scales. Hind wing white, with faint discoidal lunule and slight dusky tinge towards termen; the under- side silky with a slight yellowish tinge. Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Dod). Exp. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *462, Euxoa falerina. (Plate LXIV. fig. 18.) Carneades falerina, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 429 (1900). Whitish luteous with deeper luteous shades and fuscous irroration ; palpi fuscous at sides; tegulee with indistinct fuscous medial line. Fore wing with the markings fairly prominent, the lines luteous or fuscous; subbasal line double, represented by fuscous marks below costa and cell; antemedial line double, the inner line less distinct, erect or slightly oblique, interrupted below costa and _ slightly excurved in interspaces ; claviform slightly defined by dark scales ; orbicular round, elliptical, or elongate, defined by blackish and in female with fuscous centre ; reniform moderate, with fuscous centre and incomplete dark outline; a slight diffused medial shade; post- medial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then crenulate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved: subterminal line irregular, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a slight fuscous shade more distinct at costa, and on outer side by the terminal area being somewhat darker; a terminal series of small brown lunules. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with ochreous ; some slight fuscous shading on terminal area and a terminal line ; the underside with slight dark irroration, a fuscous discoidal spot and incomplete postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), Nevada (Mrs. Herring). Exp. 37-40 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *463, Euxoa cona. (Plate LXIV. fig. 19.) Agrotis cona, Streck. Lep. Rhop. et Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). 3. Pale ochreous with slight dark irroration. Fore wing with the subbasal line indistinct, double; the antemedial line oblique, double, waved; claviform very faintly defined by dark scales ; orbicular large, pale, rounded; reniform with dark irroration at centre and pale ill-defined annulus; medial shade slight, somewhat darkening the cell between the stigmata ; postmedial line crenulate, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by a slight dark shade, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal EUXOA, 263 series of dark lunules. Hind wing pure white, with slight discoidal bar and terminal series of dark points. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs. vp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from specimen in U.S. Nat. Mus. *464, Euxoa territorialis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 20.) Carneades territorialis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 486 (1900). @. Head and thorax grey, slightly tinged with brown and with some blackish irroration; palpi with black mark on 2nd joint: tegule with black medial line ; tibize and tarsi blackish with white rings; abdomen grey. fore wing grey with a slight brown tinge and irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by double striz from costa and cell; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards above inner margin; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above ; a somewhat dentate medial shade angled outwards at median nervure ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by some black points and a more prominent mark at costa and by the area beyond it being darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a grey line through them. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly tinged with fuscous; a fine dark terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Hap. 34 millim. 465. Euxoa conjuncta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 21.) Carneades conjuncta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 221 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. Head and thorax pale brown ; pectus and abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing very pale brown slightly tinged with fuscous; the subbasal line double, the inner black, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, the outer line black; the claviform obsolete; the orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by fuscous, the former round; the postmedial line double, the outer black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white; the veins, termen, and a fine terminal line pale brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 g, New Mexico, Las Vegas. Hap. 44 millim. 264 NOCTUIDZ. *466, Euxoa lineifrons. (Plate LXIV. fig. 22.) Carneades lineifrons, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 219 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. ¢. Whitish ochreous; frons with dark band above. Fore wing with the subbasal line double, interrupted, blackish; antemedial line double, oblique, somewhat irregular; claviform absent ; orbicular large, incompletely defined by black scales; reniform moderate, with blackish irroration, not distinctly defined ; a broad blackish, waved, medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, the inner line crenulate, prominent, the outer represented by a series of points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by a dark shade on inner side, the area beyond it rather darker, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing shading from dirty white at base to blackish at termen; the veins dark ; the underside whitish, with discoidal spot. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Hap. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *467. EHuxoa cerrvillei. (Plate LXIV. fig. 23.) Carneades kerrvillei, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 443 (1900). 3. Pale creamy-grey with some darker irroration; palpi blackish at sides, head with black band above frons; tegule tipped with yellow and with bluish-grey irroration ; thorax clothed with scales and hair tipped with yellow; patagia irrorated with grey; a tuft of long white hair at base of abdomen. Fore wing with the lines fuscous ; subbasal line single, interrupted, very near base; ante- medial line erect or a little inwardly oblique, double, the inner line most distinct, somewhat excurved below cell, the outer line diffused ; claviform absent; orbicular large, round, pale with some dark irroration at centre; reniform rather large, faintly defined by fuscous scales, its lower part filled in with grey ; medial line rather well defined, somewhat curved; postmedial line single, very even, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line represented by a series of small dark spots, with a more distinct spot at costa; a terminal series of very small dusky lunules. Hind wing white, with a small discoidal lunule and narrow diffused terminal band; cilia white; the underside white with darker irroration, a small discoidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Kerrville (Barnes). Exp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *468. Euxoa nili. (Plate LXIV. fig. 24.) Agrotis nili, Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 38, pl. i. f. 6. 3. Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi tinged with fuscous EUXOA. 265 at sides ; tegule with slight medial line; tarsi ringed with fuscous ; abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown and tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing brownish grey with slight dark irroration ; the subbasal line represented by double strize from costa and median nervure; antemedial line double at costa, then single, waved, indistinct and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform small, tinged with ochreous and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, rounded, but produced to a small lobe on outer side; medial shade very indistinct, diffused; postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line only defined by a slight dark shade before it on costa and the area beyond it being tinged with fuscous except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved terminal line, and a brown line through the cilia. Hind wing pure white; the underside with slight dark irroration on costal area and a postmedial series of points almost obsolete except towards costa. Hab, Eaypr, Alexandria, type + ¢ in Mus, Alexandria. Exp. 38 millim. 469. Euxoa choris. (Plate LXIV. fig. 25.) Agrotis choris, Hary. Can. Ent. viii. p. 37 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. INI, Aline jos GE Agrotis cogitans, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 46 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 90. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown strongly mixed with grey ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen with the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale luteous brown tinged with grey ; a sinuous blackish line in base of submedian fold; pairs of blackish points on costa at the lines, which are double and indistinct; the subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial dentate outwards below costa and in cell, excurved below cell and more so above inner margin; claviform elongate, detined by a few black scales ; the orbicular elongate, elliptical, defined by a fine black line ; the reniform defined by a black line on inner side, ill-defined on outer ; the postmedial line represented by a double series of points on the veins, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then iucurved ; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line excurved at middle; a series of small dark lunules on termen. Hind wing white tinged with brown especially towards termen, the veins pale brown; a brown terminal line; the hair on inner area ochreous; cilia white; underside with the costal area irrorated with brown; a small discoidal lunule and a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 & type, Colorado (Cockerell), 1 Q. Hup. 40 millim. 266 NOCTUIDZ. 470. Euxoa mustelina. Agrotis mustelina, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 249, pl. 6. £. 22 (1876); id. Rom. Mém. ii. p. 206, pl. 12. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis centralis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 34; id. Iris, ix. p. 368, pl. 4. £. 10. Head and thorax grey irrorated with brown; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with fuscous; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemediai line; claviform with its extremity outlined with fuscous; orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, the former round, open above, the cell before and between them more or less tinged with fuscous; a diffused waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, defined by fuscous on inner side, excurved at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with pale brown; the underside whiter, with discoidal dark point, slight postmedial series of dark striw on the veins, and diffused subterminal band. Ab. 1. centralis. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing darker, the last with the markings more distinct. Hab. Asta Minor, Pontus; N. Persia, Shahkuh, 1 ¢,1 9, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul, 2 2, Ili,Saisan ; W. SrpeRta, Altai. Hap. 38-40 millim. 471. Euxoa immixta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 26.) Agrotis immiata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 259 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 79. ¢. Head and thorax pale red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi with the lst and 2nd joints black at sides; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey tinged with brown and with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing pale reddish brown with slight dark irroration; the costal area to the postmedial line and the base of inner area tinged with grey; the subbasal line double, waved, blackish from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, waved, oblique, and arising from two black points on costa ; claviform obso- lete; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, small, greyish ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, double, arising from two black points on costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some dentate dark marks on its inner side; some black points on termen. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas strongly tinged with brown ; underside with the costal area irrorated with brown; a discoidal point and a postmedial series of points on the veins of costal half. Hab. US.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 40 millim. ~J EUXOA. 26 472. Euxoa denticulosa. Noctua denticulosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 183. f. 3 (1786). Noctua cos, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 720 (1827); Boisd. Ic. Lép. Eur. pl. 79. f. 2; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. ii. p. 181, pl. 17. f. 2; Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 420; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis tephra, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840). Agrotis vacillans, Herr.-Schaff. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 25 (1845). Agrotis nagyagensis, Fry. New. Beitr. Schmett. v. p. 110, pl. 448. ff. 1, 2 (1845). Agrotis milliert, Staud. Berce, Lép. Fr. iii. p. 139 (1870). Agrotis cycladum, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. vii. p. 121, pl. i. f. 9 (1870). Agrotis aphe, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 61 (1885). Head and thorax brownish grey irrorated with dark brown ; palpi blackish except at tips; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with grey ; the subbasal line represented by two striz from costa; a double minutely waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by blackish, the former round ; an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown especially towards termen ; the veins brown; cilia white, brownish at base; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, Ab. 1. milliert. Fore wing with the lines indistinct. Ab. 2. cycladum. Small and tinged with rufous.—Naxos. Hab. France, 8.E., Sand Coll.; Swirzertanp, Valais, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Huneary, Leech Coll. ; Sparn; Srcrty; Isrrta; GREECE, Naxos; Tunis, Gabes, type f 2 aphe in Coll. Mabille; Arment ; Asta Minor, Pontus; Syria, 1 ¢, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul. vp. 38 millim. 473. Euxoa fuscigera. (Plate LXIV. fig. 27.) Agrotis fuscigerus, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 155 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. Pale grey-brown irrorated with fuscous black ; palpi with the 1st and 2nd joints black at sides. Fore wing with slight ferruginous suffusion in discal and submedian folds and on disk; the lines single, black; the subbasal line bisinuate from costa to vein | ; the antemedial line excurved in and below cell and angled outwards above inner margin; the orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by blackish scales with some black before the orbicular, and as a quadrate patch between the stigmata; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; an indistinct irregularly dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with brown especially in female ; the veins brown; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal lunule and punctiform curved postmedial line. 268 NOCTUIDZ. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 ¢, 1 2 type, California, Sanzalito, 1 ¢,1 9, GroteColl. Hzp., 3 36, 2 38 millim. 474, Euxoa lutulenta. (Plate LXIV. fig. 28.) Agrotis lutulenta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 50 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. 2. Luteous brown; palpi blackish at sides; shoulders with a blackish line ; head and thorax with the scales grey-tipped ; tarsi with blackish bands; abdomen paler. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous brown; the subbasal line very indistinct; the antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct,-waved, and excurved in submedian interspace and above inner margin; the medial shade prominent, diffused and somewhat irregular; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, outlined by a few dark scales, the former round, the latter well developed; the postmedial line double, dentate at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an irregular subterminal line angled outwards at veins 6, 4, 3, the area beyond it darker; cilia brown, with a fine ochreous line at base, the tips rather paler. Hind wing pale brownish, the veins and terminal third fuscous brown; cilia white, with a brownish line through them ; underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 9, California, Sierra Nevada. Eup. 38 millim. This may be the female of H. incallida. *475, Euxoa annulipes. (Plate LXIV. fig. 29.) Agrotis annulipes, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe, xvii. p. 48 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. Q. Ashen grey, tinged with reddish and irrorated with black ; palpi darker at sides; head pale in front; tegule with ill-defined medial dark line: tarsi ringed with brown. Fore wing more thickly irrorated on terminal haif ; subbasal line indistinct, single ; antemedial line double, excurved, somewhat irregular, the outer half of line distinct, the inner ill-defined on costal half; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform pale and very indistinct, not defined; medial shade very distinct, brown, slightly angled at middle ; postmedial line distinct, double, the inner line crenulate, the outer less distinct except towards costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal live pale, defined on inner side by a heavy dark shade, the area beyond it somewhat dark except towards apex, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous; the underside with dark irroration, especially on costal area. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon. Exp. 29 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. EUXOA. 269 *476. Euxoa ternaria. (Plate LXIV. fig. 30.) Carneades ternarius, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 444 (1900). @. Head and thorax fuscous brown; tegule with traces of medial line; abdomen fuscous grey. Fore wing dark dull reddish brown obscurely irrorated with fuscous ; indistinct double, waved, subbasal and antemedial lines, the former ending at submedian fold; a diffused black medial shade oblique towards costa, slightly excurved at median nervure, then erect ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dark subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slight terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside white, the costal and terminai areas slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. The subterminal line of fore wing sometimes quite obsolete. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, in Coll. J. B. Smith. vp. 36 millim. 477. Euxoa insignata. (Plate LXIV. fig. 31.) Agrotis insignata, W1k. x. 330 (1856). Agrotis pleuritica, Grote, Check-List, 1875, p. 47; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 97. ¢. Head and thorax rufous brown, mixed with a few white scales; patagia with an oblique band of white scales; abdomen ochreous whitish, the extremity browner, the ventral surface irrorated with rufous. Fore wing red-brown with a yellow gloss, the veins, costal and inner areas grey-brown irrorated with white ; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to vein | defined by dark lines ; a similar antemedial line excurved in submedian interspace and strongly dentate above inner margin ; claviform moderate, with a dark edge; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black lines, the former round, the latter oblique ; the postmedial line indistinct, represented by a double series of dark points on the veins, excurved from below costa to vein 3, tien incurved; an indistinct white subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia dark red-brown, Hind wing brownish white, the veins and terminal third brown; a dark terminal line ; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; under- side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab. Canana, Nova Scotia (Redman), 2 2 type; U.S.A., Maine, New Hampshire, N. New York, Grote Coll., 1 ¢ type plewritica, Michigan, 1 9, California ( Walsingham), 1 3,8. Raphael, 3 ¢, Grote Coll. xp. 42 millim. 478, Euxoa brunneigera. (Plate LXIV. fig. 32.) Agrotis brunneigera, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii, p. 80 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 98. Dull reddish brown tinged with fuscous ; palpi black at sides ; 270 NOCTUID. tegule with a more or less prominent medial black line; abdomen with the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing more or less irrorated with black; a subbasal line from costa to vein 1 angled inwards on median nervure ; a sinuous antemedial black line; the claviform sometimes indistinctly outlined with black, the orbicular and reniform more or less distinctly outlined with black, the former elongate, the latter well developed ; the postmedial black line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; an indistinct dentate subterminal line slightly defined by greyish on outer side, a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing brown; underside with traces of discoidal spot and curved post- medial line. The form from Colorado is paler and greyer brown, the markings of fore wing sometimes obsolescent, the hind wing paler towards base. Hab. Canapa, Vancouver I, 1¢,1 @ type Grote Coll.; U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 9, Louisiana, Colorado, 1 ¢,2 2, Grote Coll., California (Walsingham), 1 $. Hap. 36-40 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). Head 2-7 millim., roughly shagreened, dark brown, a pale space above the eyes on each side of lobe. Body dull sordid brown, the skin somewhat translucent. Cervical shield brown, markings obsolete. ‘he pale dorsal line can be made out the whole length, edged with a dark shade that is contracted at the incisures ; also a dark shade at position of subdorsal line, leaving a pale space, widening at the incisures ; spiracles black ; setee minute. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D. *479, Euxoa dreusenl. Agrotis drewseni, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 302; Auriv. Bihang Vet.- Akad. Handl. xv. p. 14, pl. 2. f. 7 (1890); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p- 97; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Head and thorax dirty ash-grey ; tegule with black line ; abdo- men browner. Fore wing with the basal area dirty ash-grey, the rest of wing dull reddish brown; the subbasal line angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell; the antemedial line obliquely waved, inwardly defined by whitish; orbicular and reniform indis- tinct, grey ; medial line distinct, black, excurved, somewhat incurved in cell; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved and dentate to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of dark points. Hind wing and underside of both wings grey, with dark terminal band. Hab. Greextanp. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. #480, Euxoa fauna. Agrotis fauna, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xviii. p. 237 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 98. Dull reddish luteous slightly irrorated with black ; thorax clothed with hair and scales. Fore wing with the lines indistinct, double ; EUXOA. 271 the antemedial line oblique, excurved in interspaces ; claviform narrow, rather elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former irregularly elongate, the latter erect, elliptical; medial shade diffused, darkening the cell between the stigmata ; postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line obsolete. Hind wing ochreous fuscous; the underside with somewhat large dis- coidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., California. Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me. *481. Euxoa orbicularis. Agrotis orbicularis, Smith, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 460 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 99. @. Luteous grey. Fore wing with the lines distinctly double, dark fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black points below median nervure ; antemedial line erect, somewhat dentate; clavi- form indistinctly defined; orbicular and reniform pale, defined by fuscous, the former round, the latter moderate with fuscous centre ; medial shade indistinct; postmedial line even, slightly crenulate, placed unusually near termen, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line pale, slight, sinuous; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale yellowish fuscous ; the underside whitish, with dark irroration and discoidal Junule. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada. Hwp.32millim. This species is unknown to me. 482, Euxoa incalida. (Plate LXV. fig. 3.) Agrotis incallida, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc, xvii. p. 50 (1890) ; ‘id. Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 98. gd. Head and thorax brownish grey; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity; tegule with slight medial line; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing brownish grey, very slightly irrorated with fuscous; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; a diffused waved medial line excurved at median nervure; reniform narrow, very indistinctly defined by grey; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia white ; the under- side white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, curved fuscous postmedial line, and diffused terminal band. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer, the black irroration and markings more prominent. Hab. Cawana, 1 3, Manitoba, Winnipeg, 12 ; U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Hap. 38 millim. 272 NOCLUIDA. 483. Euxoa mollis. (Plate LXV. fig. 4.) Agrotis mollis, Wik. x. 331 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 100. Agrotis fernaldi, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil, 1875, p. 429; Grote, Ill. Bsss03, pled. te 1: ©. Head and thorax grey-white, mixed with rufous brown; basal half of tegule dark brown; patagia edged with red-brown ; abdomen grey, mixed with brown. Fore wing grey-white, suffused with red-brown, slightly on basal area and sometimes slightly on terminal area; a subbasal black line from costal to vein 1 angled outwards below costa and on median nervure ; the antemedial line prominent, defined by grey on inner side, slightly angled outwards in and below cell and very strongly above inner margin, the clavi- form conjoined to it, either outlined with black or entirely filled in with black ; a black fascia in cell expanding into quadrate patches before the orbicular and in end of cell; the stigmata grey, with darker line defining the central area, the orbicular triangular and open above, the reniform large; the postmedial line minutely dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it paler or grey; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing whitish- brown or brown; an indistinct discoidal lunule, postmedial line excurved at middle, and curved subterminal line. Hab. Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, Albany R., St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 1 Q type, Oldtown, 1 2 type fernaldi; U.S.A., Maine, Colorado. Hxp, 40-42 millim. 484. Euxoa opipara. (Plate LXV. fig. 5.) Agrotis opipara, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii.p. 165 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p.-100 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis islandica, Pack. Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 555, pl. —. f. 10 (1878) ; Auriv. Bihang Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. p. 15, pl. i. f. 5; nee Staud. Agrotis labradoriensis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 419 (1881); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis norwegica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 383; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white, more or iess tinged with fuscous brown; tegule with a prominent black band. Fore wing pale grey; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold in which there is a blackish streak from base to the antemedial line, which is grey defined slightly by fuscous on inner side and strongly by black on outer, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below cell and above inner margin ; claviform large, elongate, filled in with black and with a streak from it to the postmedial line: the cell and areas beyond it before the postmedial line blackish, clearly defining the grey obicular and reniform stigmata, the former being round or somewhat elliptical, the latter well-developed and with fuscous centre; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with fuscous suffusion on its inner side; the subterminal line formed by an obsolescent series of EUXOA, ile small dentate marks with a brownish shade before it on costal area ; a terminal series of black points and often some brownish suffusion on termen. Hind wing brownish grey; a brownish discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line; the termen tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Greentanp; Canapa, Labrador, 1 ¢,1 9; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Mt. Washington 2 2 type, Grote Coll.; Norway in Coll. Pungeler, Dovrefeld. wp. 36-40 millim. Larva, Packard, Rept. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. Hayden, 1873, p. 556 (1874). Head dark. Body dark; dorsal line whitish, interrupted, sub- dorsal similar ; finely marked with whitish.—H. G. D. *485. Euxoa tristicula. (Plate LXIX. fig. 13.) Agrotis tristicula, Morr, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 429 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 100. Pale, somewhat luteous grey ; tegule with a black band. Fore wing with the lines almost obsolete ; a black streak below base of cell ; orbicular and reniform defined by a triangular black spot in cell before the former and a quadrate patch between them; sub- terminal line represented by a series of fuscous spots. Hind wing pale, the terminal area tinged with fuscous; the underside with rather ill-defined dark discoidal lunule. Hab; U.S.A., Maine. Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 486. Euxoa munis. (Plate LXV. fig. 6.) Agrotis munis, Grote, N. Am, Ent. i. p. 38 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 100. Agrotis sublatis, Grote, N. Am, Ent. i. p. 91 (1880). Head and thorax grey, the scales tipped with brown; palpi and legs strongly tinged with brown; abdomen grey, irrorated with black and more or Jess tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing grey, irrorated with dark brown ; the subbasal line dark, waved, extending from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved below cell and very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; the claviform usually prominent and with dark outline, the cell dark brown before and between the stigmata, which are grey defined by whitish and dark lines, the orbicular round or somewhat elliptical, the reniform large; a more or less prominent dentate medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, beut outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line formed by a series of small dentate marks angled outwards at veins 7 and 4; the termen slightly darker and with a series of black points. Hind wing whitish, strongly tinged with brown, especially on terminal area; the veins brown; a slight discoidal lunule ; underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; VOL. IV. ih 274 NOCTUID. the discoidal lunule and a curved subterminal line usually prominent. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow, Bruce, Cockerell), 5 3, 1-9 type, Nevada. wp. 36 millim, 487. Euxoa dissona. (Plate LXV. fig. 7.) Agrotis dissona, Moschl. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 365, pl. 9. f. 4 (1860) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis rara, Pack. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 38 (1868). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with brown, pectus with the hair blackish; legs and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown, woolly. Fore wing grey, suffused with brown and with a slight lilac tinge; the lines indistinct ; the subbasal line extending from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line bent outwards in sub- median fold; claviform indicated by some brown scales; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, concolorous, moderate in size, and with a quadrate brown patch between them in cell; the postmedial line minutely crenulate, angled outwards at veins 7 and 5, then oblique ; the terminal line indicated by slight dark dentate marks ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown. Underside of both wings with distinct discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Labrador, 1 2 Grote Coll. wp. 34 millim. 488. Euxoa vetusta. (Plate LXV. fig. 8.) Mamestra vetusta, Wik. xxxii. 662 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p- 101. Lepipolys tetra, Wik. xxxiii. 768. (1865). Agrotis ewroides, Grote, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 202. Agrotis perpura, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). Head and thorax white with a slight bluish tinge, mixed with brown scales ; palpiand frons at sides with sonie black scales ; tegule with medial black line, the basal half mixed with black; patagia often with some black scales on edges ; the prothoracic crest at base, the tibie and tarsi with some rufous scales and largely mixed with black above ; abdomen grey, largely mixed with fuscous and with some rufous at sides and below. Fore wing white with a slight bluish tinge, and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line black, excurved below costa, angled outwards at median nervure and extending to vein 1; the antemedial line double, waved; the clavi- form outlined with black; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black, the former somewhat oblique, elliptical, the latter large, its centre defined by fuscous, a quadrate black-brown patch in cell between them; an indistinct medial rufous line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with traces of another line beyond it; the subterminal line represented by a very indistinct sinuous series of small dentate marks; a prominent EUXOA. 275 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brownish. Hind wing brown, with darker terminal line; the underside grey, irrorated with brown, with distinct discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Vancouver 1. (Hawkins, J. J. Walker), Grote Coll., 1 ¢,5 9, type and types tetra and ewrotdes; U.S.A., Cali- fornia (Walsingham) 1 2, Mendocino Co., 1 9, Grote Coll. Eup. +4 millim. *489, Euxoa malis. (Plate LXV. fig. 9.) Carneades malis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 450(1900). 3. Bright bluish grey ; head brown ; thorax mostly clothed with flattened hair. Fore wing with the medial area faintly tinged with reddish, the lines indistinct, except the subbasal line which is double ; antemedial line with double brown spot on costa, then single, slender, oblique, excurved in interspaces; claviform obsolete; orbicular large, oblique, incomplete above, with pale annulus ; reniform large, extending well below cell; cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata; postmedial line represented by double brown spots on costa ; subterminal line only defined by a dark shade before it on costa and the area beyond it being rather darker except at apex: a fine brown terminal line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins yellowish; a fuscous terminal line; the underside with dark irroration, a discoidal spot and punctiform terminal line. Hab. Canava, Manitoba, Brandon (Hanham). Ep. 29 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. *490, Euxoa enteridis. (Plate LXV. fig. 10.) Carneades enteridis, Smith, Pr. U.S, Nat. Mus. xxii, p. 427 (1900). 3. Pale greyish yellow; tegule with a narrow black line edged with white scales above; thorax with a rosy tinge on dorsum. Fore wing with the cell and terminal area except at apex fuscous, the lines fuscous brown and interrupted; subbasal line double, interrupted in cell ; antemedial line double, the inner part indistinct, prominent at costa, then indistinct to median nervure where it is strongly dentate inwardly, then oblique and excurved in interspaces ; claviform acute, moderate, incompletely defined by fuscous ; orbicular elliptical, oblique, grey with a narrow white annulus defined by black, incompletely above ; reniform large, with fuscous-defined pale centre and pale annulus incompletely defined by black ; a medial shade angled outwards at middle ; postmedial line double, crenulate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to yein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous before it at costa and by the area beyond it being dark except at apex ; a terminal series of small dark lunules ; a fine yellowish line r2 276 NOCIUID.®. at base of cilia which are intersected with grey. Hind wing white with the termen fuscous, narrowing to a point above tornus; the veins and a small discoidal lunule fuscous ;_ the underside irrorated with fuscous. Hab, U.S.A., Washington, Pullman (Piper). Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 491, Euxoa alticola. (Plate LXV. fig. 1.) Agrotis alticola, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 51 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. ¢. Head and thorax red-brown ; tegule with slight dark medial line; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing red-brown; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, the former round, the latter moderate ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by a slight dark shade on its inner side, the terminal area slightly darker; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, especially towards termen, the veins and a fine terminal line brown. Some specimens have the markings distinct, others nearly obsolete. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon in Coll. Schaus, Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada, 1 ¢. Hap. 40 millim. *492, Kuxoa cariosa. (Plate LXV. fig. 12.) Carneades cariosus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 449 (1900). Dull smoky brown shading to grey ; palpi fuscous at sides ; lower part of frons rather paler; tegule pale at base and with a more or less prominent medial blackish line ; a yellow tuft at origin of fore wing; crests well marked. Fore wing with dark irroration, the markings rather diffused; subbasal line double, the inner bent inwards towards base in submedian fold; antemedial line double, the outer black, the inner indistinct, fuscous, interrupted below costa, oblique and excurved in interspaces; claviform moderate, incom- pletely defined by black ; orbicular well-developed, oblique, irregu- larly oblong, with a whitish annulus defined by black except on subcostal nervure ; reniform large, extending to below cell, with a whitish annulus defined by black at sides and tinged with yellowish on outer side, the centre fuscous irrorated with some yellow scales ; median shade fuscous, well-defined, angled on median nervure; the celi dark between the stigmata ; postmedial line double, the inner black, lunulate, the outer fuscous, even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, irregular, defined by a fuscous shade on inner edge, sometimes broken up into irregular blotches, the area beyond it rather darker except at apex ; an interrupted narrow black terminal line ; base of cilia yellowish. Hind wing pale yellowish tinged with fuscous, whitish at base; a BUXOA, DUT dusky discoidal lunule ; cilia yellowish at base, with fuscous medial line and whitish tips; underside whitish with dark irroration, a discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman (Piper). Eup. 3 32, 2 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 493. Euxoa infausta. (Plate LXV. fig. 13.) Hadena infausta, W1k. xxxiii. 729 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. Agrotis rufula, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 461 (1887). Q. Head and thorax brown, slightly irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides except towards extremity; tegule with a black medial line; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface dark brown irrorated with whitish. Fore wing pale brown, tinged with rufous and fuscous and irrorated with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, waved, oblique; claviform outlined by a few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, the former elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre; a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line sinuous, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown; the cilia white at tips; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Vancouver I. (Hawkins) 1 2 type, (J. J. Walker) 1 g,2 9; U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley, New Mexico, 7000 feet. Exp. 38 millim. *494. Euxoa megastigma. (Plate LXV. fig. 14.) Carneades megastigma, Smith, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 425 (1900). 2. Dull luteous grey. Fore wing irrorated with black, the markings indistinct; subbasal line double, represented by a few scales or obsolete; antemedial line double, erect, the inner line almost obsolete, excurved in interspaces ; claviform represented by some fuscous scales ; orbicular very large, pale, defined at sides only reniform large, broad, almost oblong, a dark triangular mark between the stigmata; in one specimen there is a faint indication of a medial shade; postmedial line double from costa to discal fold, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line pale, diffused, slightly defined on inner side by dark irroration ; an interrupted terminal line and a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous, whitish at base ; the underside whitish, with an obscure discoidal spot. Hab. Canava, Calgary (Dod). Exp. 33-38 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 278 NOCTUIDA. 495, Euxoa nigrita. (Plate LXV. fig. 15.) Agrotis nigrita, Gres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 217; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. 6. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; patagia at extremity and metathorax purplish red; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen blackish and grey, dorsally tinged with purplish red, the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the lines double, filled in with reddish; subbasal line waved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with slight reddish annuli defined by black, the former rounded, open above, the cell black between then ; an indistinct oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line lunulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line greyish, defined on inner side by a series of small dentate black spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. Hab, Awurtand, Radetka, 1 ¢. Hap. 38 millim. 496. Euxoa colata. (Plate LXV. fig. 16.) Agrotis colata, Grete, Can, Ent. xiii. p. 131 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 106. @. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; palpi at sides with some black scales ; pectus and abdomen grey-brown, the latter ferruginous at extremity. Fore wing purplish red-brown suffused with grey ; the subbasal line represented by a few olive and black scales below the cell; the antemedial line greyish, sinuous, hardly traceable; claviform indistinct, partially outlined with black; orbicular and reniform concolorous, outlined with black except above and below and with black in the cell before and between them ; faint traces of the medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; traces of an irregularly sinuous subterminal line; a series of black points on termen. Hind wing uniform dark brown ; both wings with fine pale line at base of cilia; the underside more irrorated with brown; a discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Mt. Hood, 2 9 type, California, Sierra Nevada. Hap. 42 millim. 497. Euxoa levisi. (Plate LXV. fig. 17.) Pleonectopoda lewist, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 137, pl. 4. f. 10 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 106. ¢o. Head and thorax red-brown, the dorsal crests of thorax chestnut ; tibia and tarsi blackish, with ochreous rings; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous brown. Fore wing purplish brown; the subbasal line obsolete; the antemedial line indistinct, EUXOA. 279 excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; clavi- ‘form obsolete; orbicular and reniform concolorous, with greyish annuli and defined by black; the former oblique, the latter moderate, the cell before and between them blackish ; the post- medial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line pale, minutely dentate, angled outwards slightly at veins 7 and 3. Hind wing uniform pale brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside more irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S8.A., Colorado, Pt. Return, 1 ¢ type. Hwp. 36 millim. *498. Euxoa noctuiformis. (Plate LXV. fig. 18.) Carneades noctuiformis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 445 (1900). 3S. Pale mouse-grey, irrorated with brown and black; head with brown transverse line; tegule brown at base, with black medial line and grey tips; thorax clothed with scales and hair. Fore wing with the subbasal line double, brown, defined on outer side by a brown shade below cell; antemedial line double, the two parts nearly equally prominent, bent inwards from costa to median nervure, excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined by brown ; orbicular large, irregularly elliptical, touching antemedial line, oblique, open above, with rather pale annulus defined by black; reniform large, broad, extending well below cell, the centre brown with yellowish line, annulus pale, defined by black; the cell dark before and between the stigmata; medial shade angled outwards at median nervure ; postmedial line rather ill-defined, waved, double at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregular, defined on inner side by a dark shade, the area beyond it rather darker except at apex ; a fine terminal line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous with a yellowish tinge, darker on outer area; a discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish; the underside grey, with dark irroration. Hab. U.S.A., E. Washington (Piper), California, Siskiyou (/7. Hd- wards), Exp, 36 millim. This species is unknown tome; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 499. Euxoa basiflava. (Plate LXV. fig. 19.) Agrotis basiflava, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 52 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 101. ¢. Head and thorax rufous brown; tegule with a dark medial line ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing luteous brown, the medial and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown; the subbasal line double, sinuous from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, the inner line brown, the outer black, angled outwards below costa, sinuous to vein 1, then strongly excurved; claviform outlined with black, small ; 280 NOCTUID®. orbicular and reniform defined by black lines and with pale annuli, the former elliptical, oblique, incomplete above, the latter moderate, incomplete below, the space between them in cell blackish; the median shade oblique from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, the inner crenulate, the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale points on costa before the subterminal line, which is pale, angled outwards at vein 6, and excurved at middle, with some dentate marks on the inner side and the area beyond it dark; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, with dark discoidal lunule; the cilia ochreous, with brown line through them; the underside paler, irrorated with brown, the discoidal lunule prominent, a curved postmedial line and terminal series of black lunules. Hab, Canava, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 2 3, S. Park. Hep. 36 millim. 500. Euxoa basalis. (Plate LXV. fig. 20.) Agrotis basalis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 38 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 104. 6. Head and thorax purplish brown, the extremity of 2nd joint of palpi, vertex of head, edges of tegule and patagia, and dorsal crest on thorax ferruginous; tibise and tarsi banded with dark brown; abdomen yellowish brown, the anal tuft, sides, and ventral surface purplish brown. Fore wing purplish chestnut, the basal area strongly suffused with grey ; the subbasal and antemedial lines double, waved, the former extending to submedian fold ; claviform indicated by some grey scales defined by blackish on outer side ; the orbicular and reniform grey with purplish scales, defined by black lines and with whitish annuli, the cell before and between them and the area just beyond the reniform deeper chestnut-brown, the former round, the latter open below ; an indistinct medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it darker. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins, terminal area, and a fine terminal line brown; cilia white, with a brown line at base. Underside with the costal area irrorated with purplish red; a dark discoidal point. @. Hind wing more uniform brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 6,1 2 type. Hwp. 46 millim. *501. Euxoa solitaria. Agrotis solitaria, Smith, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlvi. p. 223 (1885); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 104. Rusty, somewhat yellowish red, irrorated with black ; head pale ; thorax carneous grey. Fore wing with the medial area more EUXOA. 281 strongly irrorated; the lines pale grey, even, not well defined; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform moderate, yellowish, the former round; cell slightly darker between the stigmata. Hind wing blackish; the underside fuscous grey, with dark irroration and fuscous lunule. Hab. Canava, Labrador. vp. 33 millim. This species is un- known to me. 502. Euxoa rena. (Plate LXV. fig. 21.) Agrotis rena, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 53 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 102. ¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey; palpi black at sides except at extremity ; tegule with black medial line ; tarsi with blackish bands; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with black; subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to submedian fold and angled outwards below costa, antemedial line indistinct, double, obliquely waved ; claviform represented by a few black scales; orbicular and reniform con- colorous, with pale annuli and black outlines, the former round, open above, the latter ill-defined on outer side and with some fuscous in lower extremity ; the cell between the stigmata black ; an indistinct medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line represented by a double series of points, bent outwards below costa, then curved; the subterminal line pale, slightly angled at veins 7 and 4, with prominent series of dentate black marks before it and slight fuscous irroration beyond it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, especially on terminal area; a dark discoidal lunule ; cilia white ; underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous ; the discoidal lunule and a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins prominent. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 ¢, Placer Co. Exp. 36 millim. 503. Euxoa melanoneura. (Plate LXV. fig. 22.) Agrotis melanoneura, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 146 (1899), ¢. Head and base of tegule black and reddish brown ; thorax brownish ochreous, the scales tipped with grey ; pectus with reddish- brown hair; legs ochreous and black ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with black, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, the veins black, the interspaces streaked with reddish brown; traces of a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, the area between it and the double, waved, antemedial line suffused with black, this line angled outwards below costa and more strongly excuryed above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with black centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former small, produced to a slight point on outer side, a black streak between them in cell; a double punctiform postmedial line, bent 282 NOCTUID®. outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the sub- terminal line only defined by a black patch before it on costa and beyond it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with fuscous, the veins blackish ; the underside paler, with black discoidal spot, curved postmedial series of points on the veins, and terminal series of points. Hab. Hawat, Kona (Perkins), 1 $ type. Hap. 38 millim. 504. Euxoa austalea. (Plate LXV. fig. 23.) Agrotis austalea, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 152 (1899). Head and thorax whitish and pale brown, irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides; frons with black bar; tegule with the basal half black ; tibise and tarsi with black spots; abdomen whitish irrorated with black, the anal tuft ochreous in male. Fore wing whitish, tinged with brown and irrorated with black; the costa black, with series of pale points; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards above inner margin; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former produced to a point on outer side, the lower part of cell between them black; an indistinct oblique dentate line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown; a terminal series of black points; the underside whitish irrorated with black; a black discoidal lunule, a sinuous postmedial line with short black streaks at the veins. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing wholly suffused with black ; abdomen and hind wing fuscous. Hab. Hawaus, Kona (Perkins), 1 3, 3Q type, Kauai, Mt. Waimea (Perkins), 1 2. Hwp. 34-38 millim. 505. Euxoa satis. (Plate LXV. fig. 24.) Spee Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 86 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 102. 3S. Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi and sides of frons with some black scales ; tegule with black medial line; abdomen grey, tinged with brown on dorsum and with purple at sides. Fore wing purplish brown, thickly irrorated and suffused with grey ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with a patch of rufous scales beyond it below the cell; the antemedial line double, the inner line rather faint, angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on vein 1; claviform indistinct, defined by a few black scales ; EUXOA. 283 orbicular and reniform defined by black on inner and outer sides, and with some rufous in cell before and beyond them, the former round, the latter moderate; traces of a medial line irom lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique; the subterminal line pale, ill-defined by rufous on inner side and grey or fuscous on outer, angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle; traces of a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing brown; cilia with brown line at base and grey at tips; the underside pale, irrorated with brown, especially towards termen; a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Nevada, California, Havilah, 2 ¢ type, Grote Coll. wp. 36 millim. 506. Euxoa nostra. (Plate LXV. fig. 25.). Agrotis nostra, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 55 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 104. Q. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black and shghtly with grey; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous brown slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown, slightly irrorated with black ; the costal area irrorated with grey ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line somewhat angled outwards in cell and above inner margin; claviform indicated by a few black scales at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the former elliptical, irrorated with grey, the latter with fuscous patch in lower extremity, the cell before and between them suffused with blackish; the postmedial line double and bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, somewhat dentate, incurved in discal fold and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being suffused with black and by slight dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; some pale points on costa towards apex and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia grey, with a brown line through them; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, a terminal series of black points. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 ¢. Hep. 36 millim. 507. Euxoa reuda. (Plate LXV. fig. 26.) Agrotis reuda, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 6 (1899). 3. Head and thorax reddish brown, mixed with fuscous and some grey; tegule with black medial line; abdomen pale red- brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, irrorated slightly with black and grey, mostly on the veins; double, waved, black subbasal and antemedial lines filled in with greyish, the former terminating at submedian fold, the latter angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1, and strongly outwards above inner margin; claviform with its upperside and extremity defined by black; orbicular and 284 NOCTUIDE. reniform with fuscous centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former round, some blackish suffusion in the cell between them ; a prominent oblique, waved, medial line from lower angle ox cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, and oblique below vein 4; the terminal area suffused with black; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale brown, the terminal area with fuscous ; the cilia whitish, with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a small dark discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, W., 1d. wp. 36 millim. 508. Euxoa decolor. (Plate LXV. fig. 27. Agrotis decolor, Morr. Proc. Buff. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 102. Agrotis campestris, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 188, pl. i. f. 6 (1875). Head and thorax purplish brown, the extremity of tegule and the thoracic crest ochreous or bright ferruginous; head and tegulie often mixed with black or whitish scales; palpi blackish at sides, the tegule with black medial line; tibiz and tarsi black, with whitish annuli; abdomen grey, tinged with ochreous and suffused with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish brown slightly suffused with grey ; some ferruginous red below the costa and base of cell; costa marked with black between the lines ; the subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to vein 1; the ante- medial line double, waved, excurved below costa and cell and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform outlined with black, small or well-developed ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with fine whitish annuli; the cell black before and between the stigmata, and usually some black suffusion beyond the latter; traces of a waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, irregular ; a terminal lunulate line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown; the underside white, with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal point and post- medial series of points on the veins. Hab. Canapa (Norman), 1 2, Nova Scotia (Redman), 2 6,1 9°; U.S.A., New Hampshire (Morrison), 1 ¢, N. York, 1 5, 4 9, type campestris, Grote Coll., Colorado (Cockerell), 1g, 22. Hap. 34— 38 millim. Larva. Head pale brown, dotted and streaked with darker brown. Body brown, semitransparent ; skin thin. Cervical shield pale brown. EUXOA. 285 Dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines pale; substigmatal line whitish. Tubercles shining black; spiracles black. A general feeder. —H. G. D. 509. Euxoa tessellata. (Plate LXV. fig. 28.) Agrotis tessellata, Harr. Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 324 (1841); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 103. Agrotis maizi, Fitch, 2nd Rep. Ins. N. Y. p. 313 (1855); id. 9th Rep. Ins. N. Y. pp. 237-249, pl. 4. ff. 2, 3. Agroiis perlentans, Wik. x. 832 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 108. Agrotis insignaia, W1k. x. 853 (1856). Agrotis illata, Wk. xi. 742 (1857). Agrotis subsignata, W1k. xxxii. 706 (1865). Mamestra declarata, W\k. xxxii. 663 (1865). Agrotis nigricans, Riley, Ist Rep. Ins. Mo. p. 87 (1869). Agrotis atro-purpurea, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 118 (1877). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, sometimes tinged with reddish brown or fuscous; palpi at sides and a band across upper part of frons black; tegule with a medial black line; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous brown. Fore wing pale or dark brown suffused with grey; the subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, excurved in and below cell and more strongly above inner margin; claviform moderate, slightly outlined with black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, with pale annuli and slightly irrorated with grey, the cell before and between the stigmata black ; an indistinct, waved, medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein +, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it usually rather darker, with greyish patch at apex and sometimes some dentate black marks before it : a terminal series of smal] black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area brown; cilia white, with a brown line at base; underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and postmedial series of points. Ab. 1. atropurpurea. Much more tinged with fuscous; the pale subterminal line of fore wing more prominent. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 6, 1 @, Orilla (Bush), 1 9, Nova Scotia (Redman), 156,12; Vancouver I. (Hawkins, J. J. Walker), 19,19, type declarata; U.S.A., N. York, 43,79, types perlentans and insignata =illata, Minois, Colorado (Bruce, Cockerell), 33,29. Exp., & 36, 2 40 millim. Larva. Marten, Trans. Dept. Agric. Ill. xviii. App. p. 183 (1880). Head shining black, ‘:paraclypeal pieces white. Body greyish, sometimes slightly yellowish. Dorsal line white, edged with dark ; subdorsal and substigmatal lines white, separated by dark shades, a dark shade subventrally. Cervical shield black, with subdorsal white stripe. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 286 NOCTUID®, *510. Euxoa intrusa. (Plate LXV. fig. 29.) Carneades intrusa, Smith, Bulli. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 192 (1890); id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 446 (1900). Reddish brown irrorated with black; tegule with black medial line. Fore wing suffused with reddish and irrorated with white on costal area, basal area, lower medial area, and subterminal area; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold: ante- medial line double, slightly waved, erect from costa to vein 1, then excurved ; claviform rather small, defined by black; cell dark before and between the stigmata, which are filled in with coarse white scales; the orbicular somewhat oblique, elliptical, reniform shaded with yellow on outer side; a medial shade from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the inner strong, lunulate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, strongly defined by a dark shade on inner side and somewhat dentate at middle; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with ochreous; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule. Hab, U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Zwzp. 30-33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 511. Euxoa albipennis. (Plate LXV. fig. 30.) Agrotis albipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 180 (1877), 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 103. Agrotis nigripennis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 159 (1880), 9. g. Head and thorax fuscous black, slightly mixed with grey ; pectus and legs with the hair whitish ; abdomen whitish, thickly irrorated with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing yellowish brown suffused with grey, the costal area darker; the subbasal line black, double, waved, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin; the claviform represented by a few black scales; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black and with slight black annuli, the cell before and between the stigmata black, the orbicular round or somewhat elongate, the reniform large ; traces of a medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, sinuous, with dark mark before it on costa and the area beyond it darker. Hind wing white, the veins and a fine terminal line brownish, or the termen tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a minute discoidal point. @. Very much darker, especially abdomen, the fore wing, which is suffused with purplish fuscous, and the hind wing, which is dark EUXOA. 287 fuscous brown with the cilia white, tinged with brown at base and apex. Hab, Canava; U.S.A., Northern States E. of Rocky Mts., Massa- chusetts, New York, Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Bruce), 1 ¢, California, 2 ¢, 2 2, type and type nigripennis. Exp., 3 36, 2 40 millim. 512. Euxoa verticalis. (Plate LXV. fig. 31.) Agrotis verticalis, Grote, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soe. iii. p. 29 (1880). Agrotis spectanda, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 54 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 103. 3. Head and thorax purple-red ; tibize and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, ‘the anal tuft ochreous tinged with red. Fore wing lilacine grey, the costal area irrorated with bright rufous; a double black subbasal line from costal to submedian fold, filled in with whitish and angled inwards in cell, a similar, waved, antemedial line extending to inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by black scales; orbicular and reniform large, with slight pale annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them tinged with black; a medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double towards costa, below which it is bent outwards, then oblescent, dentate and produced to points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa on a fuscous patch before the greyish subterminal line, which is defined by the area beyond it being tinged with fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, the termen slightly tinged with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. Q. Head and tegule irrorated with grey, the latter and pro- thoracic tuft tipped with grey; fore wing with the cell filled in with rufous; hind wing with the marginal areas tinged with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 3,1 2 type, California. vp. 40 millim. 513, Euxoa recussa. Noctua recussa, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 630 (1827); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis telifera, Donz. Ann, Soe. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 471, pl. 18. f. 1 (1837). Agrotis florigera, Ky. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 189 (1844); Herr.-Schaff. Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 148. Agrotis transylvanica, Herr,-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 547 (1845). Agrotis decussa, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 367, pl. 4. f. 9 (1896). Head and thorax red-brown or black-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous more or less tinged with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface with red. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated and suffused with rufous or dark brown; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the 288 NOCLUID A, antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards below costa and excurved above inner margin; claviform usually rather large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown and grey centres and grey annuli, defined by the cell before and between them being black ; an indistinct, waved, oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by a series of small dark dentate marks before it and the area beyond it being dark; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, more strongly in female; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal O1Nt. Hab, Alps of France; Swrrzertann, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Germany, Silesia; Huneary; Scanprnavia, Lapland, Leech Ooll. ; Russia, Zeller Coll., Urals; W. Srperra, Altai; W. Turxesran, Ala Tau, Issyk Kul, Alexander Mts., 1 ¢,1 9; E. Turxesran, Ti: E. Srpersa, Kentei, Amurland. wp. 32-40 millim. *514. Euxoa neotelis. (Plate LXV. fig. 32.) Carneades neotelis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 446 (1900). * Red-brown, more or less shaded with ash-grey; frons with black transverse line; antennz with dingy red, yellowish or grey tuft at base; tegule with deep brown medial line, edged with grey above ; a yellowish or grey tuft at origin of fore wing ; thorax clothed with hair and scales. Fore wing with the markings somewhat interrupted ; subbasal line double, black, filled in with yellowish, interrupted at cell ; antemedial line double, brown or black, the inner part less distinet, oblique, excurved in interspaces ; claviform small or moderate, incompletely defined by biack : orbicular large, elliptical, oblique, grey defined by black; reniform large, broad, extending below cell, with pale annulus defined by black, its outer part tinged with yellowish, its lower with fuscous: the cell before and between the stigmata blackish; a slight medial shade from cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, waved, blackish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the outer part less distinct ; subterminal line yellowish, irregular, interrupted, some- times reduced to diffused scales, usually defined on inner side by dark spots and a more distinct shade at costa, the area beyond it somewhat darker except at apex; a terminal, somewhat lunulate, black line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous in male, darker and with a yellowish tinge in female, the veins, a discoidal lunule, and the terminal area darker ; the underside dirty white to dusky grey with dark irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman (Pipe), Colorado (Bruce). Exp. 36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. EUXOA. 289 *515. Euxoa titubatis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 1.) Carneades titubatis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 51, pl. iv. f. 5 (1894). Very dark red-brown with a fuscous tinge, especially on fore wings; tegule more ferruginous. Fore wing with the lines indis- tinct ; the subbasal line double, filled in with pale colour; ante- medial line erect, excurved above inner margin, indistinctly double, with the outer line only well-marked ; claviform moderate, defined by brown; orbicular large, irregularly oblique, the centre dark defined by black, with a few ochreous scales representing the annulus; reniform large, dark, with incomplete yellowish annulus incompletely defined by black; the cell rather darker between the stigmata, traces of a medial shade ; postmedial line minutely crenulate, double, the inner line distinct, the outer only traceable towards costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line very faint, sinuous ; the terminal area darker ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous ; cilia grey, with a pale line at base ; the under- side with dark irroration on costal area, a small discoidal lunule and ill-defined terminal band. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado. Hvp.36millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from Prof. Smith’s plate. #516. Euxoa pallipennis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 2. Agrotis pallipennis, Smith, Pr, U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p, 461 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 104. : 3g. Head and thorax pale brownish grey, the scales tipped with reddish brown; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen white slightly irrorated with brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale brownish grey irrorated with dark brown; the subbasal line dark, interrupted at median nervure and ending at submedian fold; the antemedian line dark, waved, interrupted; the claviform represented by a few dark scales at its extremity ; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, outlined with black, the former round, the latter with a shght fuscous shade in centre, the cell between them slightly tinged with black; the postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line dentate, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, a discal point, the veins and termen brownish ; a terminal series of brown striz. Hab. Canavs, Br. Columbia, north-west; U.S.A., Colorado, in Coll. Schaus & U.S. Nat. Mus. vp. 38 millim. 517. Euxoa hispidula. (Plate LXVI. fig. 3.) Agrotis hispidula, Guen. Noct. i. p. 293 (1852). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and black; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown, the VOL. IV. U 290 NOCTUIDZ. anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform rather small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former round or elliptical and usually with black suffusion between it and reniform ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- terminal line indistinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with brown ; cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside with the costal area white irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. 2 wholly suffused with fuscous. Hab. Fatxtanp Is., Darwin Harbour (Dale), 4 ¢,19:; Paraconta, Magellan, Oazy Harbour (Cunningham), 1 3 ; Curnt (Edmonds), 245,19. Ep. 36-40 millim. 518. Euxoa bilitura. (Plate LXVI. fig. 4.) Agrotis bilitura, Guen. Noct. i. p. 285 (1852). Spelotis cineraria, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, vii. p. 74 (1852). Agrotis deprivata, Wk. xi. 739 (1857). Head and thorax pale brown; legs irrorated with black; abdomen ochreous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing pale brown, slightly irrorated with white and with a slight fuscous tinge; the markings indistinct ; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, then waved ; claviform absent ; the orbicular and reniform small, slightly defined by black, the former round, with a slight black streak before it and a prominent one between it and reniform ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line hardly traceable, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white. Hab, Cait, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 6, 2 2, Talcahuano (J. J. Walker), 1 3, Valdivia, 1 ¢ type deprivata, (Edmonds) 2 2 Exp. 40-46 millim. 519. Euxoa ochrogaster. (Plate LXVI. fig. 5.) Noctua ochrogaster, Guen. Noct. 1. p. 827 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 104. Agrotis cinereomacula, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). Agrotis gularis, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 1875, p. 424. Agrotis turris, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 226 (1875). Deep purplish red-brown to pale ochreous brown; head and thorax with some of the scales tipped with grey: tegule with a darker medial line ; pectus brown and grey; legs blackish above ; abdomen EUXOA. 291 blackish above, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing with indistinct, waved, double subbasal and antemedial liues, the former from costa to vein 1, the latter more strongly excurved above vein 1; claviform usually distinct, outlined with black and sometimes filled in with black ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres, grey annuli and black outline, the former oblique, elliptical or round, sometimes with grey centre, the latter large, the cell before and between them more or less strongly suffused with black ; an indistinct waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique, the veins just beyond it with slight dark streaks ; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, often with slight dentate black marks on its inner side, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing brown, somewhat whitish towards base; cilia whitish, with a brown line at base; underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with brown; a dark discoidal lunule. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 2, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 9 ; U.S.A., Grote Coll., 13 type gularis, 1 2 type turris, N. & E. States, Michigan, 1 2, Missouri, Colorado. Hp. 42-46 millim. *520. Euxoa compressipennis. (Plate LXVL. fig. 6.) Carneades compressipennis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 429 (1900). Dull dusky red-brown with darker irroration; frons brown; tegulz with medial black line, brown at base; thorax with some of the hair tipped with grey. Fore wing with coarse dark irroration, the markings interrupted, the cell filled in with dark brown, costa irrorated with grey at base ; subbasal line double, black, interrupted and filled in with grey; antemedial line double, black, the inner line less distinct and the space between the lines pale, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique and excurved in inter- spaces, connected with subbasal line by a dark streak below cell; median nervure with pale irroration ; claviform moderate, defined by black; orbicular irregular, subquadrate, oblique, with pale- irrorated centre and pale annulus; reniform moderate, with pale- irrorated centre and ochreous annulus; postmedial line double, filled in with reddish, the inner line lunulate, the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark shade, diffused outwardly ; a terminal series of small dark lunules and a fine yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous, the cilia with a yellowish line at base; the underside grey with dark irroration, a faint discoidal spot and traces of a post- medial line. Hab, U.S.A., California, Yosemite Valley(Dyar). Hap. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. v2 292 NOCTUIDAE. 521. Euxoa obeliscoides. (Plate LXVI. fig. 7.) Agrotis obeliscoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 293 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. enlLOD: Agrotis sexatilis, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 109 (1873). Head and thorax blackish brown; palpi pale at tips, tegule with blackish medial line and the extremities greyish, the crests on vertex of thorax pale rufous ; legs mixed with black ; abdomen yellowish brown, the sides and extremity tinged with rufous, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing purplish red-brown; the costal area broadly white and the inner area broadly fuscous to the postmedial line ; a black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line double, interrupted, from costa to vein 1: adouble, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below costa; the claviform large and strongly defined by black; the orbicular and reniform large, white with slight rufous tinge in centre, defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; the cell before and between the stigmata and the area between the reniform and postmedial line blackish; the postmedial line prominent, black, dentate, with traces of another line beyond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and bidentate at middle, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; the veins and terminal area brown; cilia whitish, with brown line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot. Hab. US.A., types 3g obeliscoides and sewatilis, Massachusetts, N. York, Georgia, Colorado (Cockerell), 1 6, 1 9, New Mexico, Arizona (Prescott), 1 9. Ewp. 86-40 millim. 522. Euxoaexcellens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 8.) Agrotis excellens, Grote, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. v. p. 115 (1875). Agrotis pereacellens, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 156 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 106. Agrotis infelix, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 57 (1890). ¢o. Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with white ; palpi and sides of frons with some black hair; tegule yellowish white in front, with black medial line and tipped with white ; patagia edged with black; dorsal crests largely whitish; legs black and brown, with whitish rings on the tibie and tarsi; abdomen grey- brown, the sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface tinged with purplish red. Fore wing dark purplish brown, the costal area whitish to the postmedial line, extending to median nervure near base, the inner area pale rufous; an ill-defined short blackish fascia below base of cell; the subbasal line represented by an oblique yellowish line below the cell, joined by a slight streak from base; the antemedial line double, filled in with whitish, excurved in and below cell and obsolete on costal and inner areas; the claviform large, defined by black and often filled in with blackish, a pale streak from above its extremity to the postmedial line; the orbicuiar ana reniform whitish, centred with EUXOA. 293 brownish and defined by black, the former oblique, the latter large ; the cell before and between the stigmata and between the reniform and postmedial line tinged with black ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, the area beyond it pale.rufous ; some pale points on costa towards apex and a grey patch at apex; the subterminal line white, prominent, bidentate at middle, and with dentate black marks before its medial point; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; the veins, discoidal lunule, and terminal area brown ; cilia white, with a brown line near base ; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown ; the discoidal lunule prominent ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Q. Fore wing with the pale areas much whiter. Hab, Canava, Vancouver I., 2 ¢,1 92 type; U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 9, Glenwood Springs, California. Ewp., ¢ 44, 2 46 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). Head 3 millim., reddish brown, shining, faintly marked by pale reticulations. Cervical shield shining brown, somewhat translucent. Dorsal space broadly pale, nearly obscuring the pale dorsal line, this pale area widening only slightly at the incisures, and reaching almost to the faintly traceable narrow, pale, subdorsal line. Stigmatal line faintly shadowed, whitish, concolorous with the pale subventral area; sete minute. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D. 523. Euxoa tritici. Noctua tritici, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 320 (1761); Boisd. Icones, pl. 77. ff. 2,3; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 121 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 527-8 & 529-30; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Noctua aquilina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 535-6; Herr.-Schiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff 533, 540. Noctua nigrofusca, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 127. f. 6 (1786). Noctua pratincola, Bork. Eur. Schmett., Noct. iv. p. 553 (1792); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 567. Noctua domestica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 23 (1793). Noctua eruta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 625 (1827) Noctua fictilis, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 479 (1827 Agrotis segnilis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 110 (1829). Agrotis seliginis, Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 211, pl. 19. f. 6 (18386). Agrotis sabuletorum, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 109 (1840) ; Herr.-Schaft Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 19; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Agrotis squalida, Ey. Bull. Mose. iii. p. 548 (i842); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 494 (nec Boisd.). Agrotis detorta, Ey. Bull. Mose. ii. p. 628 (1851). Agrotis siliginis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 287 (1852). Agrotis feda, Led. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 107, pl. i. f. 6; Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. pl. 3. f. 38. Agrotis nigrina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 106. Agrotis varia, Alph. Rom. Mém. v. p. 138, pl. 7. f. 1 (1889). Agrotis obscurior, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 420 (1892). Agrotis distincta, Staud. Iris, v. p. 358 (1892). Head and thorax ochreous to dark brown, largely suffused with black and irrorated with white; palpi black at sides except at Ne 294 NOCLUID A. extremity ; tarsi blackish, with pale rings ; abdomen brown, dorsally tinged with fuscous, greyish at base. Fore wing brown, more or less suffused with fuscous and irrorated with white on costal and inner areas; the median nervure streaked with white; the subbasal line white, defined by black on inner side, acutely angled outwards in cell, then oblique to submedian fold; the antemedial line black, defined by whitish on inner side, waved and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; claviform large, defined by black, with an ochreous or whitish streak from it above submedian fold to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell usually suffused or filled in with black; the postmedial line minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, defined by whitish on outer side and with whitish suffusion between it and subterminal line except towards costa where it is bent outwards to apex, on veins 3, 4 produced to teeth defining the black-streaked veins ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, and with some dentate black marks before it at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas broadly suffused with brown; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. Ab. 1. aquilina. Larger, browner; fore wing with the whitish replaced by ochreous. Ab. 2. obelisca, auct. Brit. nec Schiff. Purplish or reddish brown, without dentate black marks before the subterminal line. Ab. 3. eruta. Fuscous brown irrorated with grey, the markings less distinct. Ab. 4. seligints. Grey-brown irrorated with grey, the markings less distinct; hind wing white, with the marginal areas slightly tinged with brown. Ab. 5. obscurior. Similar to eruta, but blacker.—Ussuri. Ab. 6. distincta. Large ; markings prominent, bright; hind wing white; antenne thick.—S. Russia; Pontus. Ab. 7. detorta. Markings prominent.—8.E. Siberia ; Mongolia. Ab. 8. varia. The costal fascia, veins, and stigmata prominently white.—C. Asia; Mongolia; Siberia. Hab. Brrrain, Scotland, England, Ireland, Leech Coll.: Francs, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Mutzell Colls.; Austria; Huneary ; SwirzERLAND, Frey Coll.; Russia, Livonia, Sarepta (Christoph), 1 $,2 9; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus: W. Srperra, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan; Issyk-kul, 1 9 , Moneorta, Uliassutai ; EK. Turkestan, Ili; E. Srperta, Ussuri, Amurland. Lap. 26-42 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p.96; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 541, pl. 131 & pl. 182. f. 1. Dull brownish; dorsal line pale; subdorsal line fuscous, pale- edged below; lateral and spiracular lines dark greenish fuscous ; head brownish, with dark markings. Food-plants: Plantago, Stellaria, Brassica, ete. 5-6, EUXOA,. 295 *524. Euxoa pindar. (Plate LXVI. fig. 9.) Carneades pindar, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 451 (1900). 3. Brownish grey; palpi blackish at sides; head fawn-grey ; tegule fawn at base, with black medial line and brownish tips ; thorax mostly clothed with flattened hair, the crests indistinct. Fore wing with the costal area rather paler; a black streak below base of cell diffused at extremity ; subbasal line represented by two points on costa and a pale striga across streak below cell; ante- medial line double, very indistinct, erect from costa to vein 1, strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform well developed, defined by black ; orbicular large, oblique, oblong, defined by black, open above; reniform well-developed, defined by black; the cell black before and between the stigmata; postmedial line double, the inner part lunulate, the outer even, indistinct, slightly bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being fuscous brown except at apex, and by a shade before it which is most prominent at costa, dentate at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules emitting streaks to the subterminal line. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with ochreous ; the termen narrowly suffused with fuscous ; the underside with dark irroration and discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Utah, Bluff (Mrs. Peabody). Eup. 34-36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 025. Euxoa idahoensis. (Plate LX VI. fig. 10.) Agrotis tdaheensis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. iv. p. 171 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 105. ¢. Head and thorax dark red-brown, the scales tipped with grey; tegule with black medial line; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with ochreous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, slightly irrorated with white; the costal area with a broad whitish stripe extending to beyond middle ; an ill-defined black streak below base of cell; the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; the claviform large, defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform whitish, defined by black, the former oblique, confluent with the costal fascia; the cell before lower part of orbicular and between the stigmata blackish; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing pale brown; the underside with slight discoidal mark, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown. Hab, U.S.A., Idaho, 1 g type, Grote Coll., Colorado, Nevada, 19. ep. 40 millim. *526, Euxoa factoris. Carneades fuctoris, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 456 (1900). 2. Fawn-grey, more or less shaded with brown; tegule with 296 NOCTUID. black medial line diffused towards base; thorax clothed with hair and scales. Fore wing with the costa shaded with grey; the medial area rather darker red-brown; the lines somewhat interrupted ; subbasal line represented by two black spots on costa and a pale striga intersecting the black streak below base of cell, diffused below ; antemedial line double, the outer black, obsolete towards costa, the inner brown, the included space grey, incurved from costa to median nervure, excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin; median nervure streaked with grey ; claviform rather incompletely defined by black, filled in with brownish, rather short and broad ; orbicular irregular, oblique, oblong, open above, with pale annulus ; reniform moderate, rather narrow, with grey centre and annulus defined by black; the cell blackish before and between the stigmata; postmedial line double, the inner line blackish, lunulate, the outer even, indistinct, the included space rufous, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved; subterminal line fine, yellowish, more or less interrupted and irregular, defined on inner side by blackish spots; a pale apical patch; a fine dark terminal line and yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dusky yellowish, with dark discoidal lunule and pale cilia with yellowish line at base; the underside whitish to fuscous grey, with dark irroration and sometimes a discoidal lunule and postmedial line. . Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes). Lap. 33— 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. *527, Euxoa feminalis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 11.) Carncades feminalis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 454 (1900). ©. Head and thorax fuscous brown strongly mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with grey; the costal area white, irrorated with fuscous to the postmedial line, then irrorated with white, expanding to median nervure from base to antemedial line; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by blackish marks on costa, an obscure black dash below base of cell; claviform slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform white, irrorated with fuscous and defined by black, the former elongate, oblique and open above, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them blackish ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 4; some white points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line represented by an in- distinct series of whitish points defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown;, the cilia white, with pale brown line near base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Garfield Co. (Bruce), in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp, 34 millim. BUXOA, 297 528. Euxoa furtiva. (Plate LXVI. fig. 12.) Agrotis furtivus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe, xvii. p. 56 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 105. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with grey or reddish brown ; tegulee with a black medial line; abdomen grey, strongly irrorated with brown, the extremity tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey- brown or red-brown ; the costal area whitish to the postmedial line in the rufous specimens slightly tinged with rufous, the pale colour extending to median nervure at base; an ill-defined black fascia below base of cell; the subbasal line obsolete, the antemedial indistinct, angled outwards in cell and excurved below it: the claviform clearly defined by black; the orbicular and reniform grey, tinged with brown in the rufous specimens, defined by black, the former oblique V-shaped, open above, the latter well-developed, entire; medial line obsolete; postmedial line indistinct, very minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, with a dark shade before it and series of small dentate black marks ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown; the cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, (Cockerell) 1 3, (Bruce) 2 9, California. Exp. 40 millim. 529, Huxoa vanidica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 13.) Carneades vanidicus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 453 (1900). 6. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with fuscous; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulee ochreous brown at base, irrorated with black, the tips dark; patagia blackish, with patch of white scales near base; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey-white. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous in parts ; a black streak below base of cell; the subbasal and ante- medial lines represented by double black strize from costa, and the latter by an indistinct excurved line between cell and vein 1; clavi- form rather small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique, the cell before and between them and the area from reniform to postmedial line suffused with red-brown; the post- medial line represented by two dark strize from costa, then by minute black streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a reddish-brown patch and some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by slight dark dentate marks before it at middle, and the area beyond it dark brown, bent outwards to apex, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the inner margin and termen tinged with brown ; a dark terminal line; the underside 298 NOCTUID. with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, California, 1 ¢, Arizona, Phenix. vp. 38 millim. 530. Euxoa basigramma. (Plate LXVI. fig. 14.) Agrotis basigramma, Stand. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1870, p. 111; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. Head and thorax grey, more or less strongly tinged with purplish brown; tegule with black medial line; tarsi blackish, with pale rings; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly suffused with red-brown ; a black streak below the cell to the claviform, which is small and outlined with black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them more or less strongly suffused with black; an indistinct grey subterminal line slightly defined on each side by fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight points. Hind wing white, the marginal areas tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. S. Russia, Sarepta, 3 ¢, 1 9; W. Torxesran, Fergana, Issyk-kul, Tarbagatai Mts.; E. Turxesray, Thian Shan Mts. Exp. 28-34 millim. *531. Euxoa infusa. urneades infusa, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 30 (1902). 3. Fuscous brown, sometimes with a violaceous tinge; head and tegule rather paler, the latter with fine obscure black medial line. Fore wing with the costa somewhat paler, yellowish at base; a curved black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line represented by a black spot in cell, a striga below it, and some scales above inner margin; claviform narrow, defined by black ; orbicular irregular, with pale centre defined by black ; reniform large, broad, with pale centre defined by black ; the cell before and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line represented by a slight difference in tint between medial and postmedial areas beyond the cell only ; subterminal line barely traceable. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside with dark irroration. Hab. Canapa, Manitoba, Cartwright; U.S.A., Wyoming, Black Hills. vp. 30 millim. ‘his species is unknown to me. 532. Euxoa vitta. Noctua vitta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 143. f. 6 (1786) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 583-4; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 64. ff. 4,5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 150, Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey, sometimes rufous; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line; tibie and EUXOA. 299 tarsi blackish, with pale rings; abdomen greyish or ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with rufous, Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with fuscous, the disk suffused with dark or reddish brown; the costal area broadly grey-white to postmedial line, at base extending to median nervure; a curved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, defined by whitish on outer side, and with a black streak below the cell from it to the double, waved, autemedial line, which is angled outwards below costa; claviform moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform grey-white, irrorated with brown at centre and defined by black, the former rounded or oblique elliptical, the cell before and between them suffused with black; median nervure streaked with white; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, defined on inner side by a dark patch at costa with some pale points on it, and at middle by dentate dark marks, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous except at apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with fuscous brown, broadly in female; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. SwitzERuanpd, Valais, Frey Coll.; Lr. Ausrrra; CaRinrTHtia ; Huneary, Zeller & Mutzell Colls. Hwvp. 32-40 millim. 533. Euxoa islandica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 15.) Agrotis islandica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 232; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 106; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis rossica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 419; Alph. Rom. Mém. vy. p. 188, pl. 7. f. 3. Agrotis karschi, Greser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 255. Agrotis nigra, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 251 (1896). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-brown, the head and part of tegule in front of the black medial line often whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft pale fulvous. Fore wing grey- brown, often much suffused with fuscous brown; an irregular blackish streak below basal part of cell; the subbasal line double, obsolescent, interrupted, extending from costa to vein 1; the ante- medial line double, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique and excurved below cell and vein 1; the claviform well-developed or large, defined by black; the orbicular and reniform grey-brown or whitish, the former round or somewhat elliptical, the latter moderate, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area just beyond the reniform blackish ; the postmedial line bent out- wards below costa, incurved in discal fold, excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, angled slightly outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dentate marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins, a slight discoidal mark, the costal and terminal areas brown ; the underside with the 300 NOCTUID®. costal area strongly irrorated with brown and with a distinct discoidal point. Hab. Icrtann, 1 3,6 9, Grote & Zeller Colls.; Russta, Livonia, Urals; Moneorta, Uliassutai Mts., 2 ¢, 2 2, Changai Mts.; N.Sr- BERIA, Shigansk, 1 ¢; AMURLAND; Kasuurr, Kuijar (McArthur), 1 $, Nubra (McArthur), 1 g,1 9. Exp. 36-38 millim. 534. Euxoa henrietta. (Plate LXVI. fig. 16.) Carneades henrictta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 452 (1900). Agrotis obelisca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 288, part (nec Schiff.). Head and thorax pale ochreous brown mixed with dark brown ; frons with lateral black bars; tegule whitish at base and with black medial line; abdomen ochreous white, with pale brownish dorsal bands. Fore wing brownish grey; the costal area pale, extending into cell at base; the cell and area beyond it to post- medial line and below it to vein 1 suffused with brown; a blackish patch below base of cell; the subbasal and antemedial lines repre- sented by black points on costa, the latter excurved below cell and very strongly above inner margin, defined by grey on inner side ; claviform moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them suffused with black; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it grey to the subterminal line, which arises from termen just below apex, is angled inwards in discal fold, excurved at middle, then incurved; the interspaces of terminal area streaked with black. Hind wing white, very slightly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal bar and dark terminal line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Mendocino, 1 ¢, Alameda Co., St. Cruz, Arizona, Senator ; Mexico, Las Vegas (Hoege), 1 d, 1 2; Costa Rica, Ivazu (Rogers), 1 9, Godman-Salvin Coll. xp. 36 millim. Larva. Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 453 (1900). Head bilobed, broad; clypeus broadly triangular, rather high, pale brown, speckled with darker over the sides and at the top of each lobe; labrum pale, ocelli in a brown patch; width 3°5 mm. Body robust; feet normal, short; tubercle iy. of somites 9 and 10 at the upper corner of spiracle. Skin thin, translucent whitish, the dorsum faintly shaded with reddish. Cervical shield distinct, brown, with brown impressed strigee, cut by three white bands; anal plate obscure, brown-dotted ; spiracles black, tubercles brown, obscure. Said to feed on the roots of various plants.—H. G. D. 535. Euxoa atrifera. (Plate LXVI. fig. 17.) Agrotis atrifera, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 173 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. Head and thorax pale reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; Ee EUXOA. 301 palpi with some black at sides; tegule with black medial line ; tibie and tarsi banded with black; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown ; a black fascia below basal fart of cell ; the subbasal line represented by two points on costa; the antemedial line indistinct, double, angled outwards in and below cell and above inner margin; the claviform slightly defined by black; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black, the former open above, the latter moderate, the cell before and between the stigmata black ; the postmedial line very indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line very indistinct, with fuscous mark beyond it at costa, angled out- wards at vein 7, excurved at middle and with slight dentate black marks on its inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; cilia white, with a brown line through them; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a discoidal point and a terminal series. Hab, U.S.A., Maine (Fernald), 1 g , Colorado, Glenwood Springs, California, Sierra Nevada, 2 9 type, Grote Coll. Hwp. 40 millim. *536. Euxoa vestermanni. (Plate LXIX. fig. 20.) Agrotis westermanni, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 303; Auriv. Bih. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. p. 14, pl. 2. f. 8: Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. rai p. 198; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 105; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 2. Head whitish tinged with rufous; tegule white, with rufous medial line and black tips; thorax grey mixed with rufous, the patagia edged with white above ; abdomen grey. Fore wing lilacine grey with some dark irroration, the costal area rufous from middle to subterminal line; the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata and beyond the reniform, the medial area suffused with rufous from cell to vein 1; the subbasal line represented by black strie from costa and cell, a wedge-shaped black mark beyond it above vein 1; antemedial line very strongly angled outwards below costa, oblique below cell, slightly excurved at submedian fold, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform ochreous white defined by black, elongated and pointed at extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey, the former rounded, open above, the latter narrow, angled inwards on median nervure and with some rufous in centre; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved slightly at middle, the area beyond it darker; a terminal series of black lnnules. Hind wing grey irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and sinuous dentate postmedial line more distinct on underside. Hab. Greextand ; Canapva, Labrador, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 36 millim, 8302 NOCTUID&. *537. Euxoa laminis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 18.) Carneades laminis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 460 (1900). g. Dull fuscous; head brown; tegule with a rufous shade at base, and broad black medial line; thorax mostly clothed with flattened hair, the crests prominent. Forewing suffused with ashen erey ; the costal area grey to postmedial line; a fine black streak below base of cell; subbasal line double, blackish, interrupted at cell; antemedial line double, fuscous, indistinct, oblique and excurved in interspaces, almost obsolete below cell; claviform barely traceable ; orbicular small, irregular, oblique, with fuscous centre and grey annulus partly defined by black ; reniform moderate, with fuscous centre defined by black and grey annulus; the cell before and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line double at costa, then single, fine, crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line grey, irregular, interrupted below costa by a grey apical patch, defined on inner side by a dark patch at costa and somewhat dentate marks at middle, the area beyond it dark except at apex, a terminal series of small black lunules and yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dirty yellowish white, with fuscous terminal band; the veins and a dis- coidal lunule smoky ; cilia yellowish at base, with brown medial line and white tips. Hab. U.S.A., Middle California (Barnes). Exp. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 538. Euxoa tesselloides. (Plate LXVI. fig. 19.) Agrotis tesselloides, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. vi. p- 566 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. 2. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegule grey, with black medial line ; legs banded with black; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface grey slightly irrorated with brown, the sides more strongly irrorated. Fore wing grey strongly irrorated with brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line double, black, strongly dentate inwards on median nervure, then oblique to vein 1; the antemedial line double, slightly dentate outwards below costa and in cell, angled inwards on subcostal and median nervures and excurved below the cell; the claviform with its outer edge defined by black ; the orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, varying much in size, the latter large, its centre defined by fuscous, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area between the reniform and post- medial line more or less strongly tinged with brown, often very faintly ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area between it and the postmedial line blue-grey, the area beyond it dark with a bluish-grey patch at EUXOA. 303 apex. Hind wing whitish, strongly tinged with brown especially on terminal area, the veins brown ; cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Colorado, California, Havilah, 5 2 type, Grote Coll., Arizona. Hvp. 40 millim. 539. Euxoa silens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 20.) Agrotis silens, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 67 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, mixed with dark brown. Fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with brown; a blackish fascia below the cell from base to middle of wing, but less distinct towards its extremity; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines obsolete ; the orbicular and reniform grey, defined by blackish, the former elongate, elliptical, the latter moderate, the cell before and between the stigmata reddish brown; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown; the subterminal line grey, very indistinct, excurved, and with a series of dentate brown marks before it at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, tinged with brown towards margins, the veins brown; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 40 millim. *540. Euxoa silenis. (Plate LXVI. fig. 21.) Carneades silenis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 459 (1900). 2. Ashen grey on a slight ochreous ground-colour ; base of frons and tegule ochreous, the latter with black medial line and grey tips ; patagia edged with black ; thorax clothed with scales and hair, the costa well developed. Fore wing with the lines indistinct ; sub- basal line double, barely traceable; a slight black streak below base of cell; antemedial line double, oblique, excurved in interspaces ; claviform long, slender, incompletely defined by black ; orbicular small, elliptical, with pale annulus defined by black; reniform small, with fuscous centre and yellowish, annulus defined by black ; the cell fuscous before and between the stigmata; postmedial line distinct at costa, then obsolescent, bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line distinct, yellowish, angled. outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark spot on costa, then by a somewhat dentate shade, the area beyond it fuscous ; a terminal series of dark lunules ; cilia yellowish at base, and with dark medial line intersected with white. Hind wing white, the terminal area rather broadly tinged with fuscous; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., California, Los Angelos (Coquillet). Exp. 31 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 304 NOCLUID.&E. 541. Euxoa divergens. (Plate LXVI. fig. 22.) Agrotis divergens, W\k. x. 327 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. Agrotis versipellis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 172, pl. i. f. 9 (1875). d. Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with grey and white ; palpi blackish at sides; tegulee with medial black line ; tibiz and tarsal joints at extremities with white rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing brown, suffused with purplish grey except just below the cell ; the costal area suffused with grey to the postmedial line; a black fascia below base of cell, and pure white streaks on median nervure and base of subcostal nervure; the subbasal line curved, whitish from costa to vein 1; the ante- medial line grey, defined by black on each side, excurved in and below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; the claviform strongly defined by black; the orbicular and reniform defined by black, with grey annuli and grey-speckled brown centres, the former oblique, the latter moderate, the cell before and between them and the area between the reniform and postmedial line black ; the postmedial line dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line grey, excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown, whitish towards base ; the cilia white, with a brown line through them; the underside more irrorated with brown; a discoidal lunule and traces of curved post- medial line. Q. The anal tuft not fulvous; the hind wing more uniform brown. Hab. Canapa, Nova Scotia (Redman), 2 3 type; U.S.A.,3 3, 1 2 type versipellis, Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, California, Sierra Nevada, 1 2 Grote Coll. Hwp. 40 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soe. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). Head 2-9 millim., shining brown, the dark curved vertical shade distinct above and near the median suture; reticulations pale, obscure, dividing the sides into rounded dark spots. Cervical shield brown, darker before and behind, bisected by pale. Body sordid greyish, translucent, scarcely marked. Dorsal area broadly pale and nearly straight, subventral region light; spiracles black; sete minute. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D. *542, Euxoa nordica. (Plate LXVI. fig. 23.) Carneades nordica, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 455 (1900). 3. Head and thorax very dark brown mixed with some grey ; frons with black bars at middle and between antenne ; tegule more rufous, with strong black medial line; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing very dark brown, the costal and inner areas tinged with grey; a double, waved, black subbasal line filled in with grey from cell to submedian fold, and with a blackish streak below ceil and pale grey spot beyond it in cell before the double, waved, oblique antemedial line, which is somewhat angled outwards below costa; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular small, EUXOA. 305 oblique, elliptical, whitish irrorated with fuscous ; reniform grey, tinged with brown, its centre defined by brown ; the cell before and between the stigmata deep black; a slight oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein +, then incurved ; some whitish points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight dentate black marks before it at middle and by the area beyond it being darker except at apex which is greyish, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, tinged with pale brown, the terminal area darker ; the cilia white, with brownish line at base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canana, Calgary, in Coll. J. B. Smith, Br. Columbia, Olds. Exp. 36 millim. 543. Euxoa fusimacula. (Plate LXVI. fig. 24.) Carneades fusimacula, Smith, Trans. Am. Eat. Soc. xviii. p. 105 (1891) id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 107. ¢. Head and thorax dark brown and grey mixed, suffused with purplish red; tegule with black medial line; abdomen fuscous brown and grey mixed. Fore wing dark brown and grey mixed, slightly suffused with purplish red ; median nervure streaked with white ; a double subbasal line from “costa to submedian fold, where there is a black mark on its outer edge, filled in with white and angled inwards in cell; claviform mene elongate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter angled inwards on medial nervure and confluent or nearly confluent with the former, the cell before and between them blackish; the postmedial line minutely waved, defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area “bey ond it slightly darker; a arava series of blackish points, Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoida] lunule and traces of a postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, 1 g, New Mexico. Hep. 38 millim. #544, Euxoa cesia. (Plate LXVI. fig. 25.) Carneades cesius, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 457 (1900). ®. Reddish brown suffused with blue-grey ; head tinged with carmine ; tegule blue-grey, with a carmine transverse line above middle ; thorax robust, clothed with fine and flattened hair, the patagia brown, the crests well-marked and blue-grey. lore wing blue-grey, with the basal area brown below the cell; subbasal line only represented below cell where it intersects the black streak ; antemedial line represented by a grey line in submedian interspace ; VOL. IV. x 306 NOCTUID. claviform large, broad, brown; orbicular large, round, brown with a blue-grey annulus ; reniform broad, brown with a grey annulus ; cell black before and between the stigmata; postmedial line marked at costa, only defined beyond the cell by brown shading on its inner side, then obsolete ; subterminal line grey, defined on inner side by a dark mark on costa, then by a slight shade, the area beyond it fuscous ; a fine lunulate terminal line and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, dull ochreous at base ; cilia yellowish at base, with dark medial line and whitish tips; the underside with the costal and terminal areas dark, a dark discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., Middle California (Barnes). Hap. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 545. Euxoa redimicula. (Plate LXVI. fig. 26.) Agrotis redimicula, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 165 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 107. Head chocolate-brown and grey mixed; tegule grey in front, with black medial line, then chocolate with grey at tips; patagia and thorax chocolate more or less mixed with grey, the vertex of thorax grey ; pectus grey ; legs dark brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown suffused with grey; the costal and inner areas very strongly suffused with bluish grey ; the subbasal line grey, retracted to base below the cell; the antemedial line grey, acutely angled outwards below costa and inwards on median nervure, then oblique to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin; clavi- form distinctly defined by black, with an oblique grey streak above its extremity on vein 2; orbicular and reniform grey, the former oblique, the latter rather small, the cell before and between them and the area between the reniform and postmedial line black-brown : the postmedial line grey, with sight dentate dark marks on its inner edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, a bluish-grey band on its outer side with irregularly sinuous outer edge indented in discal and submedian folds and conjoined to a grey apical mark; a fine dark terminal line; cilia grey-brown, with a dark line through them. Hind wing dark brown ; the cilia white, with a brown line through them; the underside paler, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., N.E. States, Massachusetts, 1 9 Grote Coll., N. York, Colorado (Bruce), 2 ¢,1 92. Evp. 36 millim. *546. Euxoa acutifrons. (Plate LXVI. fig. 27.) Curneades acutifrons, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. 458 (1900). 2. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey; lower part of frons whitish ; tegule ochreous white at base and with black medial line ; tarsi blackish with white rings ; abdomen grey-brown. EUXOA. 307 Fore wing grey, the area below and beyond cell suffused with rufous; a black fascia below base of cell; the costal area whitish to the postmedial line, expanding into the cell at base; the subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa; the antemedial line strong, black, defined by grey on inner side, oblique, waved and angled inw ands on median nervure and yein 1; claviform moderate, defined by black: orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, open above, the cell before and betweem them and the area between reniform and postmedial line suffused with black; the postmedial line strong, black, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, the area beyond it pale rufous shading to grey before the subterminal line, which is defined by the area bey ond it being blackish and by minute black streaks on its inner side above and below vein 5, bent outwards to apex and excurved at middle ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing brownish grey, with dark minutely waved terminal line; the cilia white ; the under- side white, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal bar and slight diffused curved postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Oregon, Corvallis, in Coll. J. B. Smith, California. Evp. 38 millim. a 547. Euxoa strigilis, (Plate LX VI, fig. 28.) Ayrotis strigilis, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci. iu. p, 81 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aim. p. 107. ©. Head and thorax fuscous brown, the scales tipped with white ; palpi and neck with some olive hairs ; abdomen reddish brown, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface greyish irrorated with dark brown, the segments fringed with pinkish. ore wing fuscous brown sparsely irrorated with white; the subbasal line indistinct, wayed, whitish, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line black, defined by white on inner side, angled outwards in cell and above inner margin, inwards on median nervure and vein 1; the claviform indistinct, small, black with a few white scales on it; the orbicular and renin noncolonoue! with white annuli denned by black, the former oblique, open above, the latter well- developed ; the postmedial line blackish, with a dark shade on its inner side, defined by white scales and points on the veins on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 andexcurved at middle ; a series of black points on termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the veins, a discoidal point, and “the marginal areas brown ; cilia white, brown at base ; the underside w ith the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point and a terminal series. Hab, Caxapa, Vancouver I.; 1 2 type Grote Coll. Hyp. 38 millim. a DY = 308 NOCTUIDE. / *548. Euxoa servita. (Plate LXVI. fig. 29.) Carneades servitus, Smith, Ent. News, Philad. vi. p. 336, pl. xv. f. 8 (1899). Bluish grey; tegule with the base pale, a medial black line. Fore wing with the grev ground-colour extending along costal area and through the cell to end of reniform, obliterating the orbicular and leaving a smal] triangular black spot between it and reniform ; subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell; a black streak below base of cell crossed by a pale striga beyend subbasal line ; antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform large, defined by black ; medial area. below the cell and beyond the reniform suffused with black; postmedial line single, even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line defined on inner side by a dark shade at costa and two dentate marks at middle, the area beyond it rather darker, angled outwards at vein’ 7 and excurved at middle; a dusky terminal line and pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, with a yellowish tinge in male; the underside with slight dark discoidal lunule and incom- plete postmedial line. Hab, Canava, Calgary (Dod); U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Hap. 30 millim. ‘This species is unknown to me ; figured from a photo- graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 549. Euxoa pictifascia. (Plate LXVI. fig. 30.) Heliothis pictifascia, Hmpsn. P: Z. 8. 1896, p. 259, pl. 10. f. 8. Q. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale rufous and blackish ; patagia with white streak defined by black above ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brownish white, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with pale brown; a black-irrorated ochreous and pale rufous fascia in sub- median fold and another in discal fold from orbicular to termen ; costa blackish with some pale points ; antemedial line and claviform represented by ochreous marks on submedian fascia ; orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former small, elongate; the postmedial line indistinct, pale, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved and represented by ochreous marks on discal and submedian fascix ; the subterminal line represented by a series of ochreous spots on dentate blackish marks; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous intersected with black. Hind wing pure white, the termen with fine dark line : the underside with some fuscous irroration on costal area and black discoidal spot. Hab. ErtruHres, Massowah (Barker), 1 2; Somatitanp, Zaila ( Nurse), 1 2 type, Dhobar (Gillett), 1 9. Hap. 34-38 millim. 550, Euxoa axiliodes, n. sp. (Plate LXVI. fig. 31.) Head pale brown mixed with black; tegule pale brown, with EUXOA. 309 some white on basa! half, followed by a blackish line, and the tips black ; thorax blackish ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous, with lateral blackish lines and the ventral surface irrorated with black. Fore wing pale ochreous, greyish towards costa, the veins and interspaces with brown streaks; the costa suffused with fuscous ; a black streak in submedian fold developed into a pro- minent fascia towards base ; orbicular and reniform very small, with fuscous centres and grey annuli placed on a deep. black fascia extending to beyond the cell; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being blackish and by a fuscous patch before it on costa, dentate at the veins, arising from apex, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds and outwards to near termen at vein 4; a terminal series of black points ; cilia pale brown, with a dark line at base. Hind wing pure white; the costal area suffused with fuscous ; a fine dark terminal line. Ab. 1. Tegulee at tips and thorax ochreous and pale brown. Hab. Br. E, Arrtca, Athi-ya-Mawe, 5 ¢ type, Athi R., 2 9, Eb Urru (Betton), 4 2. Hup. 26-32 millim. *551. Kuxoa lineifera. (Plate LXVI. fig. 32.) Noctua lineifera, Blanch. Gay's Faun. Chile, Ins. p. 76 (1852). 3. Head and base of tegulee whitish, the latter at tips and thorax black ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing fuscous brown; the costal area whitish to beyond middle ; the veins defined by white streaks: lines and stigmata absent; a black streak below base of cell; the subterminal line only defined by the dark streaks in interspaces beyond cell stopping before termen, the white streaks extending to rather nearer termen; a dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, whitish towards costa and inner margin, the underside whitish. Hab. Cuitn, Coquimbo, type 7 ¢ in bad condition in Mus. Paris. BHep. 34 millim. Sncr. V. (Chorisagrotis). Antenne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the costal area distinctly paler than the ground-colour. a. Fore wing with the ground-colour black, the base of costal area and! stigmata white ................000.-seceeeee lidia. }. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish brown to grey-brown. a', Fore wing without pale streak on median nervure...... oberthuri. }'. Fore wing with pale streak on median nervure ......... auxiliaris. LB. Fore wing with the costal area grey tinged with rufous in Reel aera caren ote eRe a ee eee Se oe a6 vidi Shhiddd cdivea tos sorella. C, Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a. Fore wing grey-brown. a'. Fore wing with the lines distinct ; claviform present. a, Fore wing with the antemedial line strong, single ... balinitis. 6°. Fore wing with the antemedial line fine, double...... agrestis. }. Fore wing dark fuscous brown. a‘. Fore wing with the cell between the stigmata black ... terrealis. b'. Fore wing with the cell concolorous...............c0.c00008 intracta. c. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous...............6..60.006 xanthiodes. 310 NOCTUID. 552. Euxoa lidia. Noctua lidia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 222, pl. 396. f. D (1782); Herr.- Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 27; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Agrotis inexpectata, Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 158, pl. 11. f. 8 (1897). Head reddish brown or black mixed with white; thorax black, the basal half of tegule white slightly mixed with rufous: legs black, ringed with white; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing pale vinous red or grey, more or less completely suffused with black; the costal area and the area beyond postmedial line pale ; a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side ; clavitorm large, indistinctly defined by black and pointed at extremity: orbicular and reniform white with slight fuscous centres, the former round or oblique, elliptical; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it purplish or reddish grey to the subterminal line, which is whitish, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by a series of dentate black marks on its inner side and a whitish patch beyond it at apex; a terminal series of black points ; cilia brownish mixed with fuscous. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen; cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot. Ab. 1. ineapectata. Larger; fore wing with the costa and stigmata grey. Hab. Hottann ; Jurtanp ; S.E. Germany, Zeller & Mutzell Colls. ; E. Srprrta, Ussuri. vp. 38 millim. 553. Euxoa oberthuri. (Plate LXVIT. fig. 1.) Agrotis oberthuri, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1900, p. 50. Agrotis tritici, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 29 (nee Linn.) Head and thorax red-brown ; tegule with black medial line; the extremities of tegule and greater part of patagia often purplish fuscous; legs mostly black; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale red-brown tinged with purple; the costal area ochreous white at base, shading to pale rufous towards apex; the subbasal line represented by a black fascia below costa and a pale striga on the black fascia below base of cell; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the former small, round or oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between them and the disk beyond the reniform suffused with black; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line pale, minutely waved, excurved at vein 7 and middle, and defined on inner side by dentate hlack marks below costa and between veins 6 and 2, the area BUXOA,. Sul dL beyond it purplish fuscous with a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous brown, darker in female ; cilia whitish, with brown line at base; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab, Javan (Pryer), 1 3, Hakodate (Andrews), 3 ¢,1 2, Tokio (Maries), 2 3; W. Cutna, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 2 ¢,2 2, type. Exp., 3 42, 9 46 millim. 504. Euxoa auxiliaris. (Plate LXVII. fig. 2.) Agrotis auciliaris, Grote, Bull. Butf. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 96 (1873), 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 78. Agrotis introferens, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nut. Sci. 1875, p. 423, ¢ ; Harv. Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 74, pl. 3. f.10; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. ». 78. Morotis sorror, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 453 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 78. 3. Head and thorax dark brown ; frons with black bar ; tegule with the basal half ochreous, defined by a black medial line ; pectus and legs brown mixed with grey ; abdomen grey-brown, tinged with fulvous at extremity. Fore wing dark brown ; the costal area clear ochreous to the postmedial line, extending at base to median nervure; the area below vein 1 ochreous to the postmedial line ; a white streak on median nervure; the subbasal line represented by an oblique ochreous striga below the cell; the antemedial line ochreous, detined by black on outer side, acutely angled outwards in cell and above inner margin and obtusely in submedian fold; clavi- form defined by black, and with an ochreous streak from its extremity to the subterminal line; orbicular and reniform whitish, their centres tinged with brown defined by brown annuli: the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and inner margin and dentate at veins + and 3, with a series of dentate black marks on its inner side on the ochreous band which occupies the area between postmedial and subterminal lines except towards costa; an ochreous apical patch and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown; the disk slightly whitish; cilia white, with a brown line at base; underside white ; the costal area irrorated with brown; the veins, terminal area, and a discoidal point brown ; (claspers, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. pl. 4. f. 45). 2. Fore wing with the costal area grey. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the base of tegule and costal area irrorated with fuscous ; (claspers, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 53. pl. 4. f. 46). Hab. U.S.A., Kansas (Snow), 2 5, Texas, 1 ¢ type introferens, Montana, Colorado (Cockerell, Bruce), 3 3,6 9 type, New Mexico, Las Vegas (Cochkerell), 1 9. HEvp. 42-50 millim. ley NOCTUIDA. 555. Euxoa sorella. (Plate LX VII. fig. 3.) Cherizagrotis sorella, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 141 (1898). 3. Head and thorax purplish brown ; tegule reddish at base and extremity and with black medial line; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish brown, slightly tinged with reddish below basal half of costa; the subbasal line defined on eack side by black, interrupted below costa and interrupting the black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line double, strongly angled outwards in and below cell and above inner margin, conjoined to the claviform which is very elongate and defined by black; the orbicular and reniform with black outlines, inside which are a few grey scales, the former round, the latter large, and with a black streak in cell before and between them; the postmedial line indistinct, dark, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; a subterminal series of small dentate black and grey marks, those above veins 4 and 5 more distinct. Hind wing semihyaline white tinged with brown; the veins and terminal line brown; cilia white, with a brown line at base. ©. Tegule with the basal half yellowish; thorax without red tinge on costal area. Hab. Mexico, Las Vegas (Hoege), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll., Cobre de Perote, type ft ¢ in Coll. Schaus. ep. 42 millim. 556. Euxoa balinitis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 4.) Agrotis balinitis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. 1. p. 97, pl. 8. f. 14 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. 2. Head ochreous white; palpi at sides and vertex of head suffused with fuscous brown; thorax fuscous brown slightly pencilled with grey, the tegule whitish at base; pectus and legs brownish white, the latter marked with dark brown above ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown, aud with sublateral black lines except towards base. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; the costal area and base of inner area rather greyer; an indistinct, waved, black sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a black antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and in cell and inwards on vein 1, excurved below cell and above inner margin; the outer edge of claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey-brown with whitish annuli defined by black lines, the former rather diamond- shaped, the latter with some fuscous in its lower portion; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, with fuscous on its inner edge and rather dentate at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; cilia white, with a brownish line at base; the underside EUXO\A. 315 white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a discoidal point, postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, and terminal series of strie. Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., Colorado, 1 2 type, Grote Coll. vp. 40 millim. 557. Euxoa agrestis. Agrotis auviliaris var. agrestis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 118 (1877) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 78. Agrotis mercenaria, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 171 (1878). Agrotis flexilis, Morr. MS., Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. p. 101 (1890). Head and thorax pale red-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 2nd joint of tarsi dark at sides ; abdomen darker brown, somewhat rufous at extremity. Fore wing pale reddish brown suffused with erey ; the subbasal line double, waved, very indistinct ; the antemedial line double, indistinct, acutely angled outwards in cell and above inner margin and excurved below the cell; claviform elongate, outlined Fig. 62.—Euxoa agrestis, §. 1. with black ; orbicular and reniform concolorous, outlined with black, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter well-developed and with more or less fuscous on its lower part; a dentate postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, sometimes with slight dentate black marks on its inner side at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of discal area whitish; cilia white, with brown line at base; underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a slight discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado (Cockerell), 6 g, 10 @ type and type mercenaria, California ; Mexico, Las Vegas (Hoege), 1 ¢,Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 42-48 millim. 314 NOCTUID®. Larva (Original).—Head 3°5 mm. broad, the lobes well separated at vertex by the membranous area, pale brown, the reticulations paler, a brown band bordering clypeus without, the clypeus infuscated centrally. Body thin-skinned ; cervical shield cornified, shining brown, cut by pale dorsal line and subdorsal shade. Traces of pale dorsal line, centering the broad dorsal space which is whitish at its edges, these white lines broader at the incisures. Traces of pale subdorsal and lateral lines ; substigmatal band broad, pale, ill-defined. Tubercles large and well-cornified, dark brown; anal shield and leg-plates brown. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 558. Euxoa inconcinna. (Plate LXVII. fig. 5.) Agrotis inconcinna, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 5 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 78. Agrotis differens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i, p. 285 (nee WIk.). Head and thorax yellowish brown ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing yellowish or greyish brown; the markings indistinct; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform concolorous, slightly edged with black, the former round, the latter with some fuscous in its lower part; the postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line greyish, with some reddish brown on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, tinged with brown especially towards margins; the veins brown ; cilia white, with a brown line at base. Hab. US.A., Texas, 3 3S type, Colorado, Arizona ; Mexico, Sonora (Morrison), 1 2, Las Vegas (Hoege),1 5,1 Q, Godman- Salvin Coll. Hap. 42 millim. #559, Euxoa terrealis. (Plate LNIX. fig. 15.) Agrotis terrealis, Grote, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. vill. p. 47 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. Dark fuscous brown ; tegule darker at base. Fore wing with the costal area brick-red ; a black streak below base of cell; ante- medial line double, only traceable between median uervure and vein’ 1; claviform distinct, narrow; orbicular elliptical, oblique, grey; reniform grey ; cell black before and between the stigmata ; postmedial line obsolete ; subterminal line sinuous, hardly dentate, represented by a few pale scales, the area beyond it rather darker. Hind wing fuscous, rather paler towards base ; the underside paler, especially towards base, a distinct discoidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. Exp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. we at Or EUXOA. 560. Euxoa intracta. (Plate LXVII. fig. 6.) Agrotis intracta, W1k. x. 346 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 188. Spelotis ambigua, Butl. Ill. Het. vii. p. 54, pl. 128, ff. 10, 11 (188%). Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, sometimes tinged with fuscous, and irrorated with blackish; a double, waved, sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique, double, waved, antemedial line; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with more or less developed greyish annuli defined by black, the former round; an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by the area beyond it being darker and by slight dark marks on its inner side at costa and middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia greyish at tips; the underside with the costal area suffused with grey and irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. Fore wing uniform fuscous or red-brown, without dark irroration. Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing uniform black-brown without dark irroration, the grey annuli of stigmata prominent ; hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area brown.—Japan. Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Lewis, Pryer), 3 3 , Oiwake (Leech), 1°. Hakodate (Leech), 1 9: W. Cutna, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 g,19, a-chien-lu (Pratt), 2 5, Chow-piu-sa, 1 ¢, Moupin (Avicheldorf), 1.9; Kasumir, Narkundah (McArthur), 3 3, 1 2; Puonsan, Thundiani (Yerbury), 1 3, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 d, 1 os Dharmsila (Hocking), 23,39 type ambiqua: Nepat (Hardwicke), 1 ¢ type; Trser, Yatong (Bingham), 15,19; Suxum (Atkinson), 13d. Exp. 46-50 millim. 561. Euxoa xanthiodes, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 7.) ¢. Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi and fore coxwe redder ; fore tibize and tarsi whitish in front; abdomen reddish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous; an indistinct antemedial line, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 and outwards in sub- median fold and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform small, pale, indistinct, the former round, an obscure medial shade passing between them; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct minutely waved subterminal line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous yellow, slightly tinged with fuscous brown except on termen and cilia. Underside of fore wing tinged with fuscous to postmedial line except on costal area; hind wing yellow, the costal area tinged with rufous, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 316 NOCTUIDAE. 2. More olive-yellow and less rufous in tone; fore wing with the markings more distinct. Hab. Kasnair, Barra Larcha (McArthur), 1 ¢ type, Goorais Valley (Leech), 19. Hep, 388-40 millim. Secor. VI. (2hiacia). Antennzx of male ciliated. A. Fore wing with the median nervure streaked with white. a. Fore wing with veins 1-4 streaked with white ............ b, Fore wing with veins 1-4 not streaked with white ......... B. Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked with white. mee wing with the ground-colour purplish fuscous. . Fore wing with prominent ochreous-white costal Rs . Fore wing with the cilia pale rufous with dark lines through ‘them ...... Pc picsubgso Se nuacsedaqoceuseue oclaemace . Fore wing with the cilia chequered ochreous and lack: os.0250) Sens seeriee sdcgecotee: seks ee ee ee . Fore wing with the costal area indistinetly ‘pale tinged ania rufous. . Fore wing with black patch in cell between the BLIP Data Aa ces eocceace techs tense eeen eee R eS oséesssad ea . Fore wing without black patch in cell between the stigmata es Fore wing with the costal area concolorous . Fore wing pale rufous, the apical area purplish fuscous... * Fore wing ochreous to grey, grey-brown, or rufous. de ore wing with the cell filled in with black. Hind wing pure white a. Hind wing suffused with fuscous }', Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. a~. Fore wing with black streak above median nervure conjoined to a black discoidal lunule................ /°, Fore wing without black streak above median nervure. a. Tegulee with black band at base /°, Tegule without black band at base. ’, Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black. a. Fore wing striated with fuscous. a’. Fore wing with the costal area suffused With PUSCOUB.. <<. .sss0-sseescnee speck ace nee ee }*. Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. i. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous......... bancHe ©. Fore wing without dark striation or irrora- tion ie - ore wing with pale annulus to the reniform. . Fore wing with veins 3, 4 not defined by pale dentate marks, indenting the sub- gee minal line. . Fore wing rufous irrorated with grey ...... . Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the mena and irroration str ong. . Fore wing with the terminal area more or less suffused with fuscous. . Hind wing pure white, the cilia brown ID ROVIT EY OED ATROVENT 2) SoscmbuicoonoHeacosae 6°. Hind wing with the terminal area more or less suffused with fuscous ... difficilis. flavicollis. manethusa. acclivis. albicosta. proclivis. Junicolor. apicalis. cleiducha. marcida. t-nigrum. abnormis. pronycta. reclusa. indigna. epipyria. hirtipalpis. eremicola. cirghisa, _- Sincalylh a ene deat en coma — wel —— EUXOA. ile . Fore wing with the terminal area not suffused with fuscous. a>. Hind wing whitish, at all events towards base ae ae ene ee CLONG: . Hind wing uniform fuscous brown. ... ignobilis. ce. a wing ochreous, the lines and irrora- tion obsolescent. . Fore wing with the antemedial line TURINICS | gaanbeoaecononacdDe so tneeane orate aaa singularis. i”, Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly Gin hee sanosodang5e8e% UNG NM ad*. oe wing grey-brown to grey. . Fore wing greyish, with the stigmata almost obsolete Rs orl cicls Site amie eatcteiaisinnics peperida. . Fore wing brownish, with the stigmata obsolescent or prominent, but with s slight pale annuli.......... BAngebaDbaGeDEOBEnc ceseee opisoleuca. . Fore wing with the stigmata prominent, , With whitish annuli. . Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. forcipula, os Fore wing with the orbicular pro- duced to a point. a, Fore wing with a prominent pale band defining the postmedial line... evacta. 2°, Fore wing without pale band defining _ the postmedial line. Fore wing with the orbicular entire. a, Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median nervure. al?, Fore wing with the orbicular slightly produced...... estuageniess glaucescens. }?, Fore wing with the orbicular strongly produced and acute... turbans. 1 Fore wing with the reniform not angled mwards on median MGAVWNE) aosoonsasosaduasscuoode ee eee signiferd. }°, Fore wing with the orbicular open above, the black line below it produced towards base. «a, Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with brown ....... ae ane celsicola, ‘4, Hind wing wholly suffused “with lDLOMAN o1- sooescosononnesoopesbsopSEsEeEe emprova. . Fore wing with veins 5,4 defined by pale dentate marks indenting the subterminal Hg Hind wing entirely suffused with brown. Oe Tegulee Pwith dark band ..........0:cc0ce0 multicuspis. Ae Tegulee without dark band | ......-....:.-. aequicuspis. . Hind wing white. a - Tegulie “with black medial line ............ lagena. 7, Tegule without black medial line......... albalis. . Fore wing with the reniform ochreous defined py@blacktenassscamsmesecrses arene mance le Sele erteisiersie.s acthes. 7. Fore wing yellow suffused with fuscous DUO Ve ase tecnoastac lucipeta. ge wing dark fuscous brown. . Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area ‘tinged with fuscous AA 3 aoe Bc uA Se Be ae oe A oe pygimed. bt. Hind wing uniform fuscous .................-eeeseeeeeseenes nyctina. 318 NOCLTUID™®. 562. Euxoa difficilis. Agrotis difficilis, Ersch. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 837 (1877); id. Rom. Mém. ii. pl. 16. f.5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Agrotis albivenata, Staud. Iris, v. p. 359, pl. 3. f. 4 (1892). Agrotis alpherakii, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 91 (1893). ¢. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; tegule with the basal half yellowish white, with a line of blackish scales near base ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown, largely suffused and irrorated with fuscous; the costal area yellowish white slightly irrorated with dark brown to beyond middle, the inner area irrorated with white; the veins streaked with pure white except towards termen; the interspaces between veins 9 and 11 and above bases of veins 6 and 7 pinkish; the antemedial line re- presented by a curved black line with brown on its inner side between the cell and vein 1; claviform with its extremity defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white and pink annuli defined by black, the former small, round; the postmedial line dentate, obsolete towards costa, angled inwards in discal fold, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line represented by a series of dentate black marks interrupted between veins 6, 7: a terminal black line. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with brown, especially towards termen; cilia yellowish white, with brown line near base; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, and some points on termen. Hab. Moneorrta, Uliassutai Mts., 1 ¢, Changai Mts.; Tiner, Amdo; E. Sinrria. ap. 36 millim. 563. Euxoa flavicollis. (Plate LXVII. fig. &.) Agrotis flavicollis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 456 (1887); id. Cat. N. Am. Noct. p. 90. 3. Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi and metathoracie crest with some grey; tegulae with the basal half yellow tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs fuscous and grey, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing black-brown, the costal area to postmedial line yellow tinged with rufous, the terminal area slightly irrorated with grey ; the median nervure streaked with white; the antemedial line black, defined by brownish on inner side, obsolete on costal area, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 and_ strongly outwards above inner margin; claviform large, defined by black, with an ochreous streak from it to subterminal line ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, and with some fuscous at centre, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between the stigmata deep black; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 4, veins 3, 4, and 6 defined by dentate reddish- yellow marks from it to subterminal line, which is pale, minutely a waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and middle ; some pale points on EUXOA, 319 costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points; cilia fuscous and grey. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous brown; the cilia white, with a brownish line at base; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point. 2. Basal half of tegule, costal and postmedial markings of fore wing grey ; hind wing more suffused with brown. Hab, Canava, Manitoba, Brandon, 1 ¢; U.S.A., Montana, Colorado, Arizona. Hap. 36 millim. 564. Kuxoa manethusa. Agrotis manethusa, Deuce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, i. p. 284, pl. 27. f. 9 (1889). Head and thorax dark purple-brown mixed with black; meta- thoracic crest pale; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with fuscous, ventrally irrorated with black, the anal tuft fulvous; a lateral series of blackish spots. Fore wing purplish fuscous; the costal area whitish to the postmedial line, the veins on it defined by brown; a black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line double, black, on costal area represented by two stri, then filled in with luteous and angled inwards on median nervure and vein |: claviform black ; orbicular and reniform pale rufous defined by black, and with more or less white annuli, the former small, round, the latter produced at upper extremity ; the cell before and between them black, and the reniform connected by black streaks with the postmedial line, which is double, black, filled in with luteous, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line in- distinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved in discal and submedian folds and with black streaks crossing it between veins 4 and 6; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia ochreous, with two brown lines through them. Hind wing semihyaline white, tinged with brown towards margins ; the veins brown ; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of brown strive on the veins. Hab. Mexico City (Hoege), 2 2 type, Durango (Becker), 1 3, Godman-Salvin Coll. vp. 42 millim. 565. Euxoa acclivis. Agrotis acclivis, Morr. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N.Y. xi. p. 98 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. Agrotis opaca, Wary, Bull. Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci. iii. p. 72, pl. 3. f. 1 (1875). 3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and ochreous ; thorax ochreous and rufous, with dark stripes on upper edge of patagia, the scales being tipped with grey ; pectus ochreous and dark brown; the legs dark brown, with ochreous rings on tarsal joints. Fore wing fuscous brown, with broad ochreous fascia on costal area to end of cell, at base extending to submedian fold, 320 NOCTUID 2. slightly suffused with rufous and with rufous streaks on it in the interspaces ; subbasal line obsolete ; the antemedial line indistinct on costal area, where it is angled outwards below costa and in cell, below the cell double and sinuous; claviform small, outlined with black: orbicular and reniform small, ochreous and rufous, the former rather diamond-shaped, the latter with the centre detined by rufous and with two black streaks from it to the postmedial Fig. 63.—LHuwoa acclivis, SO. }. line, which is minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area with slight rufous streaks in the interspaces from below costa to vein 3; a subterminal series of small dentate ochreous marks; cilia chequered ochreous and black. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins streaked with brown, the terminal area tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U:8.A., N. York ?, Texas, Colorado, 1 ¢, type opaca, Ayizona. Hep. 30 millim. *566. -Euxoa albicosta. Agrotis albicosta, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 454 (1887) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 89. Very dark fuscous brown; thorax with a slight purplish tinge. Fore wing with a black streak below base of cell; the costal area reddish clay-yellow; the veins more or less prominently dark- streaked ; antemediai line faintly indicated between median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform reddish clay-yellow, the former small, round, with a dark point at centre, the latter with a paler yellow annulus; cell black before and between the stigmata ; post- medial line obsolete; subterminal line represented by a few in- definite dark marks at middle. Hind wing pearly white, with the terminal area fuscous. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado foot-hills, New Mexico, Arizona. Lep. 32-42 millim. ‘This species is unknown to me. 567. Euxoa proclivis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 9.) Agrotis proclivis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 453 (1887); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. Agrotis oaxacana, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 107 (1898). Agrotis obelisca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aim., Het. i. p. 283 (part), nec Schiff. Head blackish; thorax grey-brown mixed with black; tarsi i EUXOA. ook blackish with pale rings; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with fuscous brown and suffused with fuscous black except the basal area, the costal area to post- medial line, and the terminal area except towards apex; the subbasal line represented by double black striz from costa; the antemedial line indistinct, represented by double black strive from costa and double oblique black strize from submedian fold to vein 1; claviform small, obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinet, with slight pale annuli, the former produced to a point on outer side almost confluent with the latter; the post- medial line black, defined by paler fuscous on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line represented by a series of short whitish streaks in the interspaces, incurved at discal fold, where there is a short black streak before the one above vein 5, and a black streak extending to lower angle of cell above vein 4; a terminal series of black points; cilia reddish brown intersected with blackish. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the terminal half deep fuscous; cilia white; underside whitish, the costal area and terminal half suffused with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 9; Muxico, Oaxaca, type ft 9 in Coll. Schaus, Durango (Becker), 1 g, Godman-Salvin Coll. Lwvp. 36 millim. 568. Euxoa fumicolor. (Plate LXVII. fig. 10.) Agrotis fumicolor, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 74 (1902). Head rufous; palpi with some fuscous at sides; thorax fuscous, the tegule with black and rufous medial band; abdomen ochreous strongly irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing purplish brown, with traces of markings indicated by black scales ; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines; traces of the orbicular and reniform stigmata, of a waved postmedial line bent outwards below costa, and of a waved subterminal line; some pale points on costa towards apex and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the veins brownish; a slight discoidal point; a postmedial series of points on the veins; the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous. Hab. Masnonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 $,19 type. Hwp. 28 millim. 569. Euxoa apicalis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 11.) Agrotis apicalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 153 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 80. @. Head and thorax fuscous brown; palpi fringed with rufous ; tegule with black medial line; thorax pale rufous; legs marked with blackish above; abdomen pale grey-brown irrorated with daik brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown, the veins slightly streaked with black; subbasal and antemedial lines black, double, waved, VOL. IV. Y¥ o28 NOCTUID®. and bent inwards to costa; orbicular and reniform small, very faintly defined by darker brown lines ; the postmedial line double, black, nearly erect from costa to vein 4, where it is angled outwards, then oblique; the apical area suffused with purplish fuscous to below vein 5; the interspaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks. Hind wing brown; the veins rather darker; cilia pale, with a brown line at base; the underside with the disk whitish. Hah, U.S.A., Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona (Prescott). Exp. 34 millim. *570. Euxoa cleiducha. (Plate LXVII. fig. 12.) Pleonectopoda cleiducha, Dognin, Le Nat. 1902, p. 121. ¢d. Head and thorax dull greyish brown; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen pale brown, greyish at base and on ventral surface. Fore wing dull brown, the outer half of inner area and terminal area greyish irrorated with brown; the subbasal line represented by double black striz from costa and cell; the antemedial line double, dentate below costa and in cell and obsolete below vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform dull brown with grey annuli, the former rounded, open above, the cell before and between them and below the orbicular black ; the postmedial line double, strongly bent out- wards below costa, then obsolescent, somewhat dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark patch at costa, then by small brown spots; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apex and termen slightly tinged with fuscous; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Eovavor, Loja, type t ¢ in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 32 millim. *o71, Euxoa marcida. (Plate LXXIII. fig, i) Agrotis marcida, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (1893); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuseous and a few black scales ; the tegulee and metathoracie crest more or less tinged with rufous; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi black, with pale rings ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous and tinged with reddish brown, especially on postmedial area; the subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa ; the antemedial line double, distinctly so at costa, angled outwards below costa, then slightly waved ; claviform rather small, defined by black and with blackish streak above and beyond it ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter narrow and with fuscous centre, the cell before and between the stigmata filled in with black-brown; an irregular medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, with double black striz at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, EUXOA. 323 then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; the subterminal line grey, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, most prominent towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules; a grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous; the cilia whitish, with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point. Hab, Prrsta, Aschabad, in Coll. Piingeler. up. 32 millim. 572. Euxoa t-nigrum. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 2.) 279 Orthodes t-nigrum, Guen. Noct. i. p. 872 (1852). ¢. Head and thorax brownish ochreous, irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi with black patch at sides; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with a rufous tinge. Fore wing ochreous, tinged with brown and sparsely irrorated with brown and black scales; the costal area to median nervure and subterminal line paler; a small black spot in middle of cell; a black streak above median nervure from before middle of cell to a point at middle of vein 4, conjoined to a discoidal lunule and forming a harpoon-shaped mark ; subterminal line very ill-defined, blackish, defined on costal half by the pale area before it, oblique from apex to vein 7, where it is sharply angled outwards, then again oblique to extremity of streak on vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, the veins brown, the costal and inner areas tinged with brown; the underside with shght discoidal point, and postmedial and terminal series from costa to vein 2. Hab. Braztt, New Fribourg, Petropolis (Doer), 1 ¢. Exp. 42 millim., *573. Euxoa abnormis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 13.) Agrotis abnormis, Smith, Trans, Am, Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 41 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 79. Carneous grey shaded and suffused with reddish ; palpi brown at sides ; tegule with a blackish band at base. Fore wing with the subbasal line double, black, dentate ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, brown or blackish, the included area pale in dark specimens, erect, angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin; claviform faintly defined by dark scales ; orbicular moderate, elliptical, oblique, pale in the dark specimens, defined by black, sometimes incompletely on inner side; reniform with leaden grey centre, darker below, with grey annulus narrowly defined by black ; postmedial line single or with double spots at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line somewhat paler, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark shade, pro- minent in the paler specimens; a. fine interrupted dark terminal line. Hind wing dirty grey-brown, paler in male; .a discoidal YZ 324 NOCTUID®. spot; the underside with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. _ -Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada (McGlashan). Exp. 34- 37 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photo- graph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 574. Euxoa pronycta, n. sp. (Plate LX VII. fig. 14.) g. Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with white-tipped black hairs, the thorax tinged with purplish red; tibiee and tarsi blackish ringed with ochreous; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous or greyish, irrorated and striated with fuscous, the costal area darker; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular re- presented by a small black spot; reniform moderate, black ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; indistinct subterminal and terminal series. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area tinged with fuscous. Hab. Masnonatann, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 3 type, Umtali (Marshall), 1 3. Ep. 32 millim, 575. Euxoa reclusa. (Plate LXVII. fig. 15.) Graphiphora reclusa, Wk. x. 403 (1856). 3. Head and tegule red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at sides, in front and at extremity and lower part of frons whitish ; thorax grey; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated and striated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by dark striz from costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, with dark points at costa and sub- median fold ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and their annuli defined by brown, the former indistinct, round ; the post- medial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, slight except towards costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces whitish towards base; cilia whitish, with brown line through them ; the underside white, a black discoidal lunule, the apical area with somewhat diffused black patch extending to vein 2. Q. Head and tegule less red. Hab. Avstratia, 3 3,19 type; S. Ausrrarra, Gisborne (Lower), 192. ap. 34-40 millim. 576, Euxoa indigna. (Plate LXVII. fig. 16.) Apamea indigna, Herr.-Schaff. Ausser. Eur. Schmett. f. 130 (1850). Agrotis dividens, W\k. x. 842 (1856). Axylia intendens, Wik. xi. 717 (1857). Head and thorax rufous mixed with black or entirely suffused BUXOA. 325 with black; tegule with deep black medial line ; abdomen ochreous suffused with black. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, or rufous more or less irrorated with black, the costal area suffused _with black to near apex; the subbasal line represented by slight strie from costa and cell; antemedial line double, waved, sometimes strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; claviform minute, indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular small, round, with pale annulus defined by black and usually with black centre; reniform defined by black and filled in with fuscous ; the cell between the stigmata more or less suffused with black ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being more or less suffused with fuscous, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds and bent outwards to apex and tornus. Hind wing yellowish white, the eostal and terminal areas tinged with fuscous in female; the underside with more or less developed disvoidal point and post- medial series on the veins. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Athi R., 1 3, Naitolia, 1 ¢, Eb Urru (Betton), 2 9; Navan (Kraus), 1 d, type dividens, Karkloof (Marshall), 19; Carr Cotony, Grahamstown, 1 ¢, Annshaw (Miss fF, Barrett), 2 3,1 2, Transkei, 1 9 (Drege), 1 3 type intendens. Exp. 32-36 millim. 577. Euxoa epipyria, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 17.) Head and thorax ochreous to purplish red mixed with black ; tibize and tarsi black, ringed with ochreous white ; abdomen fuscous, with grey segmental rings, the ventral surface ochreous irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous, more or less completely sutfused with purplish red; the costal area suffused with black; the sub- basal line represented by double striz from costa filled in with whitish ; the subcostal and median nervures defined by fine whitish streaks to antemedial line, which is indistinct and very strongly dentate outwards in cell, submedian fold, and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform small, with slight ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter filled in with black; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the veins and interspaces of terminal half streaked with rufous; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated. with fuscous, traces of a discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. Hab. Br. BK. Arrica, Athi-ya~-Mawe (Betton),1 9 ; Maswonatanp, Salisbury (Marshall), 13,1 2 type. Hep. 30-32 millim., 326 NOCTUID®!. *578. Euxoa hirtipalpis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 18.) Agrotis hirtipalpis, W1k. xi. 789 (1857). ? Agrotis prestans, Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p, 143, pl. 6. f. 16 (1890). ¢. Head and thorax dark red-brown; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing rufous irrorated with grey; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined by grey on outer side; an oblique waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and defined by grey on inner side; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey; an indistinct curved waved medial line; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; no trace of sub- terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and terminal line brownish ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous, a small discoidal spot, an indistinct postmedial line with short streaks on the veins. Hab, CotomBra, Bogota, type fT ¢ in Mus. Oxon. Evp. 48 millim. *579. Euxoa eremicola. (Plate LXIX. fig. 21.) Agrotis eremicola, Stndf. Iris, i. p. 217, pl. 10. ff. 7, 8 (1888); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 3g. Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; palpi with black patch at side of 2nd joint; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen white, dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous; the sub- basal line represented by a black striga from costa; antemedial line strong, slightly waved, nearly erect; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, with square black spot between them; a medial striga on costa and an indistinct line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- terminal line pale, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by black suffusion, the area beyond it suffused with black; a terminal series of black points; cilia fuscous, with an ochreous line at base. Hind wing pure white, the cilia brown from apex to vein 2. Underside pure white; fore wing with fuscous terminal band from costa to vein 2; hind wing with the termen tinged with fuscous towards apex. Hab. W. Turxestan, Kirghistan, Alexander Mts., in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 42 millim. 580. Euxoa cirghisa. Agrotis vallesiaca, Fry. Beitr. Hur. Schmett. p. 109, pl. 351. ff. 5, 4 (1842), nec Boisd. zi Agrotis kirghisa, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1856, ii. p. 219, pl. i. f. 7, @,5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis squalorum, Ky. Bull. Mose. ii. p. 22 (1856) ; Stndf. Iris, i. p. 218, pl. 10. f. 9; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis squalidior, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Head and thorax very pale red-brown mixed with black; tegule EUXOA. O27 with medial blackish line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown strongly irrorated with black; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, a black spot on costa between it and the antemedial line, which arises from a eostal spot, is angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former somewhat elliptical, a waved medial shade passing between them ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks and with blackish suffusion beyond it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and the terminal area tinged with brown; in female wholly suffused with brown. Underside white, the terminal area of fore wing suffused with fuscous, of hind wing towards costa only. Ab. 1. squalidior. Rather paler ; fore wing brownish grey, the markings more distinct ; hind wing with the terminal area brownish in male.—Taurus; Persia. Ab. 2. squalorum. Hind wing of male with the veins only tinged with brown, and in the female the terminal area. Hub. 8.E. Russia; Anmenta; Syria, 1 ¢,1 9 ; Persia, l G, 19; W. Turkestan, Kirghistan, Issyk-kul, 1 ¢, Alexander Mts., 1 $6,199; W. Srperi, Altai; E. Tursesran, [i; Kasuuir, Dras (Leech), 1 9. Exp. 36-40 millim. 581. Euxoa clara. Agrotis clara, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 4; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145, Agrotis celebrata, Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 209, pl. 8. f. 8 (1897) ; Staud. - Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis verecunda, Ping. Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 58 (1898); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi black except at tips ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous ; a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved blackish antemedial line arising from a small costal spot; a waved medial line angled outwards at lower angle of cell; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an obscure diffused subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous especially on terminal half; cilia white; the underside white, with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. celebrata. Rather darker ; fore wing with the markings more prominent. Ab. 2. verecunda, Paler and with less dark irroration. 328 NOCTUID ®. Hab. W. Turxestan, Turcomania, Issyk-kul, 3 g, 19; E. Torxusran, Kuldja, 1 ¢, Aksu,1 g,1 9. Hep. 40-44 millim. 582. Euxoa ignara. (Plate LXIX. fig. 18.) ee ignobilis, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 354, pl. 6. f. 2 (1895), nec Staud. 1888. Agrotis ignara, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 248 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 3. Head and thorax pale brown irrorated with fuscous ; palpi black except at tips; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous brown irrorated with black. Fore wing pale reddish brown, thickly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line arising from a small spot on costa, then waved ; a waved medial line angled outwards at lower angle of cell and arising from a small costal spot; the post- medial line somewhat dentate, arising from a small spot on costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale ochreous; the underside pale irrorated with dark brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Monaorra, Uliassutai Mts..1 g. Hvp. 36 millim. 583. Euxoa singularis. Orhifrons singularis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 187 (1877); Christ. Rom. Mém. ii. p. 166, pl. 6. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. 3g. Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white, the dorsum slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with pale brown ; the subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa; a strong, somewhat sinuous black antemedial line slightly angled outwards in submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform very incompletely defined by black, the former rounded ; the postmedial line represented by blackish spots on costa and inner margin; subterminal line indistinct, irregularly dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side at costa by a blackish patch, then slightly by black ; some black striae on termen. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous towards termen. Hab. Pavestine, 1 g; W. Turkestan, Turcomania. Lap. 36 millim. Larva. Pale ochreous, striated and irrorated with reddish brown ; thoracic shield brown, with whitish dorsal and lateral lines ; dorsal line indistinct, double; subdorsal line indistinct; lateral fascia broad, with the black stigmata on its lower edge. 584. Euxoa amena. (Plate LXVII. fig. 19.) Agrotis amena, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 267 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 3. Pale ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tarsi EUXOA. 329 banded with brown. Fore wing slightly irrorated with brown; subbasal line very indistinct from costa to submedian fold; ante- medial line indistinct, brownish, almost evenly curved; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, slightly defined by brown; postmedial line indistinct, brownish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line only defined by slight brownish suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white; the underside with the costal area shghtly irrorated with brown. Hab. Arnmenta, 1 ¢ ; Asta Minor, Pontus; W. Turxestan, Sarawschan. wp. 40 millim. 585. Euxoa peperida, n. sp. (Plate LX VII. fig. 20.) Head and thorax grey-white pencilled with brown; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tegule with medial black line ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with black; a rufous shade in, beyond, and below end of cell; the subbasal line represented by points on costa and median nervure ; the antemedial line indistinct, waved, with more prominent points on costa, median nervure, and vein 1; hardly a trace of orbicular or reniform; a slight fuscous shade at lower angle of cell; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with more prominent points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line hardly defined by a very slight shade on inner side ; a terminal series of indistinct dark points. Hind wing white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of minute points on the veins. Hab. Kasumir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 3,2 2 type. Exp. 42 millim. 586. Euxoa opisoleuca. (Plate LX VII. fig. 21.) Agrotis opisoleuca, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. Head and thorax pale brown; abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct dark subbasal line trom costa to submedian fold, excurved below costa ; a waved ante- medial line; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with sight pale annuli, the former round ; traces of a dark medial shade ; the postmedial line irregularly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct pale subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inuer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine ochreous subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins brownish; traces of a subterminal band especially towards tornus. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. Hab. N. Persia, 1 g-, 1 2, Schahkuk, Kurusch. wp. 42-44 millim. 330 NOCTUID. 587. Euxoa forcipula. Noctua forcipula, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Hitbn. Samml. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 547; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 228, pl. 66. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis denticulosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 183. f. 3 (1777). Agrotis bornicensis, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 260. Agrotis nigrescens, Hofm. Soc. Ent. ii. p. 121 (1888). Head and thorax dull brown mixed with grey ; antennx ringed with black; tegule with black medial line, patagia edged with blackish above; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with white; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line; claviform defined by blackish; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former rounded ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line very indistinct, represented by a series of ochreous points and slight wedge-shaped black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale, more or less completely suffused with reddish brown; cilia whitish, with brown line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Ab. 1. bornicensis. Larger and darker. Ab. 2. nigrescens. Much darker. Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Sprain, Tragacete (Chapman), 1 9 ; Sictty; Armenia, Caucasus; Asta Minor, 1 ¢,1 2, Pontus, Taurus; Syria, Leech Coll.; Prrsta; W. Turkestan, Turcomania. wp. 38-42 millim. 588. Euxoa exacta. (Plate LXVIL. fig. 22. Agrotis exacta, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p.9; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with blackish medial line; tarsi blackish, with pale rings; abdomen grey irrorated with dark brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown and black; the veins with slight blackish streaks; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, and excurved above inner margin ; claviform whitish, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former produced to a point on inner side, the cell between them slightly tinged with black: the postmedial line somewhat dentate, defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line greyish, with slight fuscous dentate marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules, Hind wing pale fuscous brown; the cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside EUXOA. 331 whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a curved postmedial line and terminal series of black points. Hab. W. Turxesran, Issyk-kul, 3 ¢ ; E. Turkestan, Ili. Hip. 40 millim. 589. Euxoa glaucescens. Agrotis glaucescens, Christ. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 163; id. Rom. Mém. v. p. 23, pl. i. f.9; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Head and thorax white mixed with ochreous brown; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous brown, largely mixed with white; the subbasal line represented by a double striga from costa, filled in with ochreous ; a fine black streak below base of cell; the antemedial line ill- defined, with double black strize at costa and strongly angled out- wards above inner margin; claviform white, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former small, more or less produced to a point on outer side, the latter angled inwards on median nervure ;_ postmedial line defined by ochreous white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing white, tinged with ochreous brown especially on terminal area; the cilia white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. EK. Turxesrayn, ll, 1 g,1 9. Herp, 34-36 millim. 590. Euxoa turbans. (Plate LXVII. fig. 23.) Agrotis turbans, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 10; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 146. Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with grey and black ; palpi black at sides, except at tips; tegule with black medial line ; tarsi ringed with black; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale brown, with a reddish tinge and slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins strongly streaked with black ; subbasal and antemedial lines only represented by grey and black strize on costa; a black streak below cell from base to the claviform, which is elongate, acute, and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former very elongate, narrow, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median nervure to origin of vein 2; the subterminal line represented by a series of elongate dentate grey marks on each side of veins, with fuscous dentate marks in interspaces between them extending to the terminal series. of small black spots ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series of striw om the veins. Hab, W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk-kul, 1 ¢,1Q2. Hap. 38 millim. Sag NOCTUID %. 591. Euxoa signifera. Noctua signifera, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Fabr. Ent. Syst. i. 2, p. 71; Hubn. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 1382; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 230, pl. 66. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Agrotis orientis, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xvii. p. 54 (1€82). Agrotis improcera, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 9. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown or red-brown; tegulae with black medial line, patagia edged with black scales above; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous or grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white, suffused and irrorated with dark brown or pale rufous; a black streak below base of eell confluent with the elongate black-defined claviform; the subbasal line represented by double black strive from costa; the antemedial line waved, double at costa, and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former more or less produced to a point on outer side, sometimes confluent with the latter, a black streak in lower part of cell interrupted by the stigmata and con- tinued to the subterminal line ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and strongly below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by an obscure series of dentate brownish marks, with a short black streak above vein 6 and the fascia above vein 5; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia intersected with fuscous, Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line brownish; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. Ab. 1. improcera. Paler; fore wing with the transverse lines hardly traceable-—Armenia; Syria; Persia; C. Asia. Ab. 2. orientis. Almost unicolorous; the fore wing ashy grey with the dark basal fascia.—Persia, Ih. Hab. France, Sand Coll.; Gurmany, ZellerColl.; Ausrria, Zeller Coll.; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzmrtanp, Frey Coll.; Russza, Sarepta (Christoph) ; ArmENtA, Caucasus, 2 2 ; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Syrra, Leech Coll.; Persta; W. TurKxesran, Khurdistan, Fergana, Issyk-kul; E. Turwesran, Ili; W. Srserta, Altai, 1 9. Ewp. 34-40 millim. 592. Euxoa celsicola. (Plate LXVII. fig. 24.) Agrotis celsicola, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1859, p. 190, pl. 5. f. 5; Herr.- Schaff. Neue Schmett. f. 126; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Head and thorax red-brown, mixed with black and some white scales; tegule with black medial line and tipped with black, patagia edged with black above ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing red-brown, with some whitish irroration ; the veins with fine black streaks, the interspaces with diffused fuscous streaks ; a sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold running into the elongate ochreous black-defined claviform, which is pointed at extremity; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and pale EUXOA. 333 annuli defined by black, the former produced to a point on inner side, open above, and produced as a streak defined by black below towards base, the latter with the lower part of its annulus pure white; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, oblique below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and strongly below vein 4; the sub- terminal line represented by a series of ochreous points with wedge-shaped black marks defined by ochreous on their inner side, the dentate mark above vein 5 longer and above vein 4 continued to reniform ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia intersected with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area suffused with ochreous brown; cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown. Hab. Franc, Alps, type tf ¢ in Coll. Oberthur ; Syrm,5d,19, Leech Coll.; Persta; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan. xp. 36-40 millim, 593. Euxoa improba. (Plate LXVII. fig. 25.) Agrotis improba, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 8; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 147. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; tegule with black medial line; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey mixed with brown; the subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa; the antemedial line represented by an oblique striga from costa, then obsolescent and excurved in inter- spaces; a sinuous black streak from base below ceil to the claviform, which is elongate and defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former open above, the black line below it produced in cell towards base, produced to a point on outer side, sometimes confluent with the reniform, which is slightly angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line very ill-defined and produced to long points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; subterminal line very irregular and formed by strongly dentate grey marks on veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 1, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia brown intersected with grey. Hind wing brown; the cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; the underside grey, the costal area and veins irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Hab. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Taschkent, 1 ¢,19. wp. 38 millim. 594. Euxoa multicuspis. Agrotis multicuspis, Ky. Bull. Mose. 1852, i. p. 152 (1856); Alph. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 27, pl. 2. f.5; Staud Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Agrotis spinosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 183. Agrotis spinifera, Christ. Rom. Mém. i. pl. 7. f. 7 (188+), nee Hiibn. Agrotis issykula, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. dl. Head and thorax white mixed with pale and dark brown, tegule with dark band near tips; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white 354 NOCTUID &. irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull brown, slightly irrorated with white ; a white fascia in submedian fold to near postmedial line, slightly defined by dark scales ; a slight white streak in cell to the orbicular, which is elongate, with white annulus slightly defined by blackish ; reniform small, with white annulus defined by blackish ; the postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dark dentate marks defined by V-shaped whitish marks, before it; a fine terminal dark line; cilia white and brown. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown; cilia white; the underside white irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. issycula. Paler,the ground-colour of fore wing more ochreous white, the antemedial line visible on inner area, angled inwards on vein 1, then outwards.—Issyk-kul. Hab. 8.E. Russia; Armunta, 2 9; Asta Minor 1 6, 1 9; W. Turkestan, Krasnovodsk, 1d, Zeller Coll., Turcomania, Issyk- kul, 2 6,59. Hap. 338-42 millim. 595. Euxoa equicuspis. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 3.) Agrotis equicuspis, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 365, pl. 6. f. 18 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. Head and thorax white irrorated with dark brown; abdomen white. Fore wing white irrorated with dark brown; the discal and submedian folds slightly tinged with ochreous; a white fascia in submedian fold from base to near postmedial line incompletely defined by black; the orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by blackish, the former very elongate, its outer edge pro- duced to a point or bidentate, the latter small; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by dark strive from costa; faint traces of a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line whitish, indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dentate dark marks defined by V-shaped white marks on its inner side; a fine dark terminal line; cilia white and brown. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia white; the underside white irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. Hab. E, Turxestan, Thian Shan Mts.; Moneorza, Kuruk Tag, 16,192. xp. 40 millim. 596. Euxoa lagena. (Plate LXVII. fig. 26.) Agrotis lagena, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 26 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 80. Q. Head and thorax white mixed with brown; 2nd joint of palpi at sides and sides of frons with black marks; tegule with black medial line; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with brown; abdomen white irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish, irrorated with brown; the lines obsolete; a sinuous black-brown EUXOA. 300 streak below the cell from base to vein 2, orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white annuli defined by black and with some dark brown suffusion in cell between them; the orbicular elongate, pyriform, conjoined or almost conjoined to the inner edge of the reniform; a streak of brownish suffusion from the reniform to termen; the veins of terminal area with dark streaks; a terminal series of dentate brown marks in the interspaces and a series of black points on termen. Hind wing white; the veins and terminal area more or less strongly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown; a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. U.S.A., Montana, Colorado, California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, 2 2 type. vp. 40-44 millim. 597. Euxoaalbalis. (Plate LXVII. fig. 27.) Agrotis albalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. iv. p. 175 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 80. Agrotis cloanthoides, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 153 (1880). @. Head and thorax white mixed with grey-brown; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with brown and ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing white, strongly irrorated with grey-brown; the lines obsolete; blackish streaks from base in and below cell: the orbicular represented by an indistinct dentate white mark slightly defined by black; the reniform by a small very indistinct white annulus; the subterminal line represented by three fuscous dentate marks below costa and two on veins 3, 4, with large diffused white patches on their inner sides; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area irrorated with grey ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with grey-brown. Ab. 1. cloanthoides: whiter. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Nevada, 1 9 type. Exp. 40 millim. *598. Euxoa aethes. Agrotis aethes, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 62 (1885); id. N. Arch. Mus. (3) i: p. 149, pl. x. f. 7. 3. Head and thorax ochreous white; tegule and patagia edged with black and yellow-brown or rufous; abdomen ochreous white, slightly tinged on dorsum with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white, suffused from before middle to termen with pale yellow-brown or greyish mixed with red and fuscous in and near cell and near middle of termen, leaving the costal area pale to the postmedial line; a black streak in submedian fold from base to the claviform, whieh is ochreous defined by black, and elongate; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by black, the former small or moderate, and ellip- tical, the latter large, open above, and angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line very indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4,then incurved ; subterminal line blackish, obsoleseent except at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, in 336 NOCTUIDAE. the dark specimen formed by ochreous points defined on each side by black and with black streaks on the veins before it towards costa ; a terminal series of black points; cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with fuscous, paler towards base ; cilia whitish; the underside grey-white, with fuscous discoidal spot and terminal band. _ Hab, Paraconta, Santa Cruz, typet in Mus. Paris. wp. 34 millim. 599. Euxoa lucipeta. Noctua lucipeta, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p.'71 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 169 (1787) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 120. f.3; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 41; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 266, pl. 70. £3; Boisd. Icones, pl. 80. f. 4; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Head and thorax clothed with ochreous hair, becoming fuscous and grey at tips; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing yellow, overlaid with fuscous grey, the ground-colour appearing as irroration and in the markings ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on the veins ; claviform slightly defined by yellow; orbicular and reniform defined by yellow, the former round; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia yellow and fuscous. Hind wing ochreous brown, rather paler towards base; the cilia whitish at tips; the underside ochreous, irrorated with brown on terminal half. Hab. France; Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls.; Austria ; Hun- gary, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Irary; Roumanta ; Asta Miyor, Pontus, Taurus. Hap. 56 millim. 600. Euxoa pygmea. (Plate LXVII. fig. 28.) Agrotis pygmed, Bang-Haas, ined. Head and thorax black-brown and grey mixed; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with grey ; a diffused black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line grey ; indistinct, waved, oblique; claviform small, narrow, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black ; postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and ter- minal area tinged with fuscous; cilia white, with a fuscous line through them; the underside with the costal area fuscous, irrorated with grey ; a slight discoidal spot. Hab. W. Turkestan, Syr Darya,1 5,19. ap, 34 millim. 601. Euxoa nyctina, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. fig. 29.) 3. Fuscous brown ; head and thorax slightly mixed with grey. Fore wing narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded ; FELTIA, 337 slightly irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by a few black scales below costa and cell; traces of an antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled ; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former rounded, open above ; the postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line only defined by diffused blackish suffusion on inner side, curved; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous brown ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diffused, curved postmedial line. Hab, Koumaon, Ralam Valley 12,000 feet (Duthie), 1 3 type. Exp. 36 millim, Genus FELTIA. Type. Nee UNV Kei Ret On (LGOG)” coaudsselceasceecscksets scares tas cedesnsascbeeea ducens. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front; frons with vertical ridge-like prominence ; tibiz strongly spined, the mid and hind tibix with tufts of hair on outer side from base. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded ; veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsulescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; male with the claspers simple, hooked. Secr. I. Antennz: of male with long branches; the spines on fore tibie very stout. A. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas not reddish. a, Fore wing with the median nervure defined by white Sireakauemnrs satin se suiecaotaecsspteno nacscce os Geen Gost orients gladiaria. b. Fore wing with the median nervure not defined by white streaks, a‘. Fore wing without flesh-coloured streaks in discal vite! aiilonners Mesa 1)CE). CooocedesnencococeecostedoELeaoBSECOsee venerabilis, b', Fore wing with flesh-coloured streaks in discal and Sup Medignolds hace secuess sceneries sce esendescesnss dees millert. B. Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas reddish ...... circumdata. 602. Feltia gladiaria. Agrotis gladiaria, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. Agrotis morrisoniana, Riley, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 286 (1874). $. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown; palpi black except at tips; tegule and patagia edged with brown, the tegul with slight medial line ; tibie and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous; a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing pinkish ochreous, suffused with brown and slate-grey in, below, and just beyond cell and on terminal area; the subbasal line represented by an oblique pale striga, defined by black on inner side, from costa, and another from median nervure to vein 1; the antemedial line pale defined by black, acutely angled outwards below costa, then obsolescent to median nervure, below You, LY. Z 338 NOCTUID™®. the cell forming with part of the subbasal line a semicircular mark with pale centre, then acutely angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, slate-grey defined by black ; orbicular very small and rather elongate, with pale annulus defined by black ; reniform large, expanding below, slate-grey, with pale annulus defined by black ; the postmedial line pale, very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then with series of small dentate black marks on its inner side ; the veins beyond the cell with black streaks, and defined Paneer XT Gan Ye = iy OD Fig. 64.—Feltia gladiaria, 3. }- by whitish streaks on each side; the subterminal line represented by a series of small dentate whitish marks, with larger dentate black marks on their inner side ; a terminal series of black points and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area fuscous brown; cilia white with a brown line at base; the underside with blackish discoidal lunule and some fuscous suffusion on apical area. 2. Hind wing often more uniform fuscous brown. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 Q ; U.S.A., E. States, 3g, 2 2 type morrisoniana, Grote Coll., Texas. Hwp. 34-40 millim. 603. Feltia venerabilis. (Plate LX VII. fig. 30.) Agrotis venerabilis, W1k. x. 828 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 83. 3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with ochreous and grey ; tegule blackish at tips; patagia grey-white except at shoulders ; tarsi blackish, with pale rings on the joints; abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing grey-brown, suffused with fuscous towards costa or wholly suffused with fuscous, sometimes tinged with pink ; the veins with dark streaks ; the lines obsolete; a faint semicircular mark below the cell sometimes present, representing part of the subbasal and antemedial lines; the claviform narrow, clongate, blackish defined by black ; the orbicular small, elongate, and defined by black; the reniform blackish, partly defined by black and rather ill-defined ; a triangular fuscous mark on termen below apex, with traces of small blackish spots or slight streaks in the interspaces above and below it. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia pale, with a brown line near base; the underside whiter, with the costal and terminal areas suffused and irrorated with brown; a discoidal point. Q. Patagia pinkish brown. Hab, Canapa, Orilla (Bushe), 2 3, Nova Scotia (Redman), 3 3 FELTTIA. 3o9 type; U.S.A., New York, 2 3, 2 9,Grote Coll., 1 §, 19, Erie Co. (Grote), Texas, Colorado, California (Walsingham), 2 ¢. Eup. 42 millim. *604. Feltia milleri. (Plate LX VII. fig. 31.) Agrotis milleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci. iii. p. 78, pl. 4. f. 4 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 87. 3S. Head and thorax mixed grey and black, patagia with pale flesh-coloured upper edge ; abdomen grey and fuscous mixed. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with black; pale flesh-coloured streaks in submedian fold and in discal fold beyond the reniform; a slight black streak in base of cell; the subbasal line represented by a black spot on costa; antemedial line black, nearly straight from costa to vein 1, then strongly bent outwards ; claviform defined by black above ; orbicular and reniform grey irrorated and defined by black, the former round; a dentate black postmedial line, produced to short streaks on the veins, slightly incurved from below costa to vein 4 and confluent with outer edge of reniform, then oblique; an irregular black subterminal line, strongly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and dentate at middle; cilia chequered white and blackish. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia white, with brownish line through them ; underside grey thickly irrorated with black ; a slight discoidal spot and diffused dentate postmedial line. | Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, in Coll. Schaus. vp. 38 millim. *605. Feltia circumdata. (Plate LXIX. fig. 14.) Agrotis circumdata, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 53 (1888); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. Fuscous black-brown; antenne yellow; abdomen brownish fuscous. Tore wing with broad yellowish-brown fascia on inner margin confluent with the yellowish-brown terminal area; lines indistinct, double; antemedial line strongly angulate ; orbicular and reniform yellowish brown; postmedial line lunulate, sinuous. Hind wing fuscous, with the cilia reddish or purplish ; the under- side irrorated with reddish, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. Evp. 31-34 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sci. Secr. LI. Antenne of male bipectinate, with short branches ending in fascicles of cilia, A, Fore wing with the orbicular stigma V-shaped, open above. a. Fore wing with dark streaks defining the white sub- Gostalfancemedian menvunes sme staat csseee sew orca emcee: pectinicornis, b, Fore wing without dark streaks defining the white sub- Costalrand median Mervures verntsecysdievsecvasee. dsstswcee evanidalis, B. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma small, elliptical... robustior, Za 340 NOCLUIDA. 606. Feltia pectinicornis. (Plate LX VII. fig. 32.) Feltic peetinicornis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38. no, 114 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 3S. Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity ; frons with black bar above it; tegule with black medial line and the tips blackish ; patagia with black line above; tibiz and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused with pale brown ; the subcostal and medial nervures defined by fine white streaks ; the base of submedian interspace blackish ; the subbasal line excuryed, white defined by black on inner side and ending at vein 1 ; the antemedial line whitish defined on each side by blackish, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards on median nervure, then oblique and ending at vein 1; claviform elongate, blackish defined by deep black ; orbicular and reniform white defined by black, their centres by brown, the former V-shaped, open above, the cell before and between them and beyond reniform blackish ; short black streaks above bases of veins 2 and 3; the postmedial line pale defined by fuscous striz on each side of it, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa to just beyond reniform and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, pale defined by short black streaks before it, above vein 7, and at middle and beyond it in the interspaces ; some pale points on costa towards apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous, except towards inner margin ; cilia white; the underside, with the costal and terminal areas, irrorated and slightly suffused with fuscous brown. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 2 ¢. Hp. 40 millim. 607. Feltia evanidalis. Agrotis evanidalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 82. 3. Head and thorax ochreous white, slightly mixed with red- brown ; the branches of antenne brown ; femora fuscous above ; abdomen ochreous white, tinged with rufous towards extremity. Fig. 65.—Feltia evanidalis, §. }. Fore wing ochreous white, suffused with pale red-brown and purplish grey; the subcostal and median nervures and base of vein | streaked with white; the cell and area below it and just beyond it darker TFELTIA. 341 brown ; the subbasal line represented by a white striga from costa and an oblique striga from median nervure to vein 1 ; the antemedial line white, defined by black on outer side, angled outwards on sub- costal nervure, inwards on median nervure, and terminating at vein 1; claviform large, brown defined by black; orbicular and reniform ochreous white, the former V-shaped and open above; the postmedial line indistinct, whitish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with a series of small black dentate marks on its inner side; the subterminal line represented by a series of dentate dark marks, with a pale band on their inner side extending to the postmedial line and conjoined to a pale apical patch; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, the costal-and terminal areas irrorated with brown; the underside with dark discoidal points. Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 g type. wp. 33 millim. *608. Feltia robustior. (Plate LX VIII. fig. 1.) Feltia robustior, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxi. p. 206 (1899), 3. Fuscous grey or brown irrorated with black and white ; lower part of frons and vertex of head somewhat darker; tegule with black or brown medial line, fuscous, tipped with white at extremities ; patagia edged with brown ; abdomen pale fuscous grey. Fore wing with the markings rather well defined; subbasal line whitish, diffused, extending to submedian fold; antemedial line double, black filled in with white, inwardly oblique from costa to median nervure, excurved to vein 1, then oblique to middle of inner margin ; claviform long, strongly defined by black ; orbicular small, elliptical, detined by black; reniform small, partly defined by black: post- medial line single, blackish, interrupted, defined on outer side by white scales, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then somewhat incurved; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 3, 4, defined on inner side by a cae shade on costa, then by a series of dentate marks ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with a pale line at base and brown medial line; the veins finely streaked with black edged by white scales. Hind wing fuscous grey, with a slight discoidal lunule and terminal line; the underside white with dark irroration, a large blackish discoidal spot and terminal series of black lunules. Hab, Caxava, Manitoba, Brandon (Hanham). Exp. 40-42 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. Srecr. III. Antenne of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma V-shaped, open above. a. Fore wing with the reniform stigma constricted at middle; hii.d wing white .......... Srasdatnese none aReae olivia. 342 NOCTUID. b. Eee wing with the reniform stigma not constricted. . Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with 5 ames . Fore wing with the remiform stigma lunulate... Fore wing with the reniform stigma oblong ... "ind wing wholly or almost wholly suffused with brown. a, Fore wing with the postmedial Jine not defined ooby whitish. . Fore wing with series of small dentate black marks before the subterminal line ......... b°, Fore wing without series of small dentate black marks before the subterminal line ... 22. Fore wing with the postmedial line defined by whitish - Bad Sen 8 abr coon eoadoecactnerdcodenaD B. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma not V-shaped. i. ree wing entirely suffused with brown. . Fore wing with the transverse lines present. a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform __ stigmata not confluent. . Fore wing with the reniforin stigmata not angled inwards on median neryure. a’, Head Cadtke, vntensnsnos ceooe eee Oneser ace meee ie aiend rufous, or ochreous and rnfous. . Fore wing with the lines distinct, colouring bright ..........--.ses-s+e:seeees b°, Fore wing with the lines Gadieuniel! colouring dull. . Fore wing with more or less developed dark streaks beyond the reniform. a’, Fore wing without whitish streak below base Ofelia eet odecnseee we 27, Fore wing with whitish streak below base of Flies eRe eta ake b°, Fore wing without dark st reaks beyond the reniform esex ch seisenisiedanae sens z }°, Fore wing with the reniform stigma angled inwards on median nervure .... .....-.++++ a b?, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stig- mata confluent or connected by a black fascia. b', Fore wing with the transverse lines absent. a?, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata (OM Esae; Sosgoonssnensooosesos sseeanscec b2, Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata obsolete.......... A heneesameeeoatece 6. Hind wing white, the terminal area in female more or less tinged with brown. a. Fore wing with the claviform filled in with black. ate Fore wing with the claviform very large......... . Fore wing with the clavyiform much Sueellers . Fore wing with the orbicular rounded........ 33, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate and produced HOMES MONA kSoonoocuacs Ao oBHoROn0NbN b, oe ore wing with the claviform not filled in inw Fan black. . Fore wing with black streak in cell between orbicular and reniform stigmata .............-- b?, Fore wing without black cireak in cell between _ orbicular and reniform co cto . Fore wing with the antemedial line very black, highly angled outwards above inner margin. . Fore wing w ae the antemedial line not angled outwards above inner TOEPHENIN geisansegoodse as ducens. edentata. subgothica. herilis. honesta. gravis. VANCOUVETCNSIS. volubilis. pert. @neipennis. duo-signa. wiphias, dislocata. aulacias. informis, exclamationis. malefida. GNNCLA. canities. exrperta. FELTIA. 343 *609. Feltia olivia. Agrotis olivia, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 288 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 80. Reddish clay-yellow. Fore wing with ill-defined dark patch at base ; antemedial line obsolete towards costa, double, lunulate ; claviform short, defined by black; orbicular and reniform yellowish with white annuli, the latter constricted at middle; the cell before and between the stigmata black; median nervure streaked with white ; postmedial line obsolete ; subterminal line traceable, defined on inner side by dentate black marks, the area beyond it dark with an apical pale patch; cilia dusky, with a yellowish line at base. Hind wing pearly white, the veins and margins tinged with fuscous ; the underside grey irrorated with blackish, a discoidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., Utah. Hvp. 39 millim. This species is unknown to me. 610. Feltia ducens. Agrotis jaculifera var., Guen. Noct. i. p. 262, pl. 5. f. 4 (1852). Feltia ducens, W1k. ix. 203 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 81. Feltia radiata, Harr. MS.; Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am. p. 38. Agrotis subgothica, Fitch, lst & 2nd Rep. Ins. N. Y. p. 314, pl. 3. f. 1, nec Harv. Head and tegule brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line; thorax grey mixed with brown, the patagia with dark brown streak above and often some ferruginous red at extremity; legs largely marked with black ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous; a sub- lateral series of blackish spots. ore wing brown, with fleshy-white streaks on subcostal and median nervures and inner margin; the subbasal line represented by an oblique white striga from costa and Fig. 66.—Feltia ducens, S. }. an inwardly oblique striga on a dark brown patch below the cell, the antemedial line by a striga from costa and a line between median nervure and yein 1; claviform defined by black and very long, extending to beyond origin of vein 2; an oblique whitish streak above it from antemedian line to near termen; the orbicular grey, V-shaped, open above, its lower edge whitish defined by black; reniform brownish, sometimes rufous, with white annulus defined by black; the veins of terminal area blackish on whitish ot4 NOCTUID.E. streaks; the postmedial line indistinct, whitish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with some dark dashes before its medial part; some white points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line represented by some dark dashes, with a whitish patch beyond them at apex and a broad band before them from vein 7 to inner margin, dentate outwards on veins 3, 4; a slightly waved fine black terminal line. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas broadly tinged with brown ; the veins brownish ; the underside with brown discoidal point. Hab, Canava, Renfrew Co., 1 ¢, Orilla (Bush), 1 ¢ type, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I. (J.J. Walker), 3 g ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly, 4 ¢, Grote Coll., N. York, 4 g, 2 9, Grote and Zeller Colls., Colorado. Hep. 36-42 millim. Egg nearly spherical; height *45 millim., diam. ‘57 millim. ; colour dirty white with brown mottlings; vertical ridges wavy, converging towards micropyle, the horizontal ridges fine. (Slinger- land, Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Stat. 1895, p. 577, pl. iv.) Larva, (Redescribed.)\—Head 3°5 mm., shining pale brown, rather finely reticulate in dark brown, curved band dark brown, the one from the eye obscure. Cervical shield brown, slightly cornified, eut by the pale dorsa) line and whitish subdorsal line. Body brown, finely mottled on a cream-coloured ground, skin somewhat thin and shagreened. Dorsal space broadly pale, mottled, centered by the faint pale dorsal line which is edged by a dusky shade that sends out obscure expansions at the tubercles. Lateral spaee darkly shaded, with traces of pale line. Substigmatal band broad, pale, brown-mottled ; subyentral space brown. ‘Tubercles rather large and cornified; spiracles black; anal plate brown. A general feeder.— H. G. D. *611. Feltia edentata. Feltia edentata, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 88 (41902). 6. Palpi fuscous at sides; head fuseous, the frons reddish grey ; tegule fuscous brown at base, with blaek medial line, the tips brown and whitish; patagia grey irrorated with brown; thorax brown, the metathoracie crest greyish. Fore wing fuscous brown, suffused with reddish grey below costa, above median nervure, above claviform and below it to subterminal line, on postmedial area; the veins with dark streaks; subbasal and antemedial lines reddish grey, obsolete except in submedian interspace ; claviform long and broad, almost filling the submedian interspace, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular V-shaped, open above, reddish with grey annulus ; reniform narrow, oblong, rather wider above, ereet, rufous with reddish-grey annulus ; cell before and between the stigmata fuscous ; postmedial line only defined by the contrast between the dark medial and grey postmedial areas; subterminal line defined by the terminal area being narrowly dark except at apex; a terminal series of small black lunules and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dirty yellowish white, the terminal area fuscous; cilia FELTIA. 345 yellowish at base, with fuscous medial line and whitish tips; the underside whitish, the costal area with dark irroration and apical suffusion. Hab, U.S.A., Washington, Pullman. vp. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me. 612. Feltia subgothica. (Plate LXVIIL. fig. 2.) Noctua subgothica, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 224 (1810); Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 126, pl. 22. f.8; Wood, Index Ent. p. 36, pl. 9. f. 149; Packard, Guide, p. 806, f. 238; Saund. Fruit Insects, p. 328, f. 339. Agrotis jaculifera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 262 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 81. Agrotis tricosa, Lintner, Ent. Cont. iii. p. 159 (1874). 3. Head and thorax purplish brown, slightly mixed with grey ; tegule with black medial line; thorax ochreous or greyish brown ; legs black irrorated with grey ; abdomen ochreous, irrorated with black especially towards extremity, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing purplish fuscous; fine pinkish-white streaks on each side of subcostal nervure and on median neryure; the subbasal line represented by a pale brownish striga from costa and an oblique striga below the cell where it crosses a black patch, the antemedial line by an outwardly oblique striga from median nervure near the subbasal line to vein 1; claviform elongate, blackish, with deep black outline; orbicular V-shaped, greyish, open above, and with a pale line below ; reniform brownish with grey annulus, its centre defined by brown, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area between the reniform and postmedial line black; the area from above and beyond the claviform to near tornus pale pinkish brown; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with a series of black dashes on its inner side beyond the cell ; the sub- terminal line grey, with some greyish sutfusion before it, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, and 3, and with a series of black dashes before and on it; a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing ochreous whitish, tinged with brown; the veins and terminal area fuscous brown; cilia ochreous, with fuscous line near base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a dark apical patch and discoidal point. 2. Hind wing often uniform fuscous brown. Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co., 3 g, 2 9, Orilla (Bush), 3 S; U.S.A., N. States, 1 g type, N. York, 435, 4 9, type tricosa, Texas, Colorado. Hap. 42-46 millim. The British localities of the older authors for this species are erroneous. Larva. (Redescribed.)—Head 3°5 mm., shining pale brown, rather finely reticulate in dark brown, curved band dark brown, the one from the eye obscure. Cervical shield brown, slightly cornified, cut by the pale dorsal line only. Body brown, finely mottled on a cream-coloured ground, skin somewhat thin and shagreened, Dorsal space broadly pale, filled with broad brown segmental blotches touching the edge; dorsal line obsolete. Lateral space darkly 346 NOCTUID®. shaded, with traces of a pale line. Substigmatal band broad, pale, brown-mottled; subventral space brown. ‘Tubercles rather large and cornified; spiracles black; anal plate brown. FELTIA. Sse. 625. Feltia exclamationis. Noctua exclamationis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 515 (1758); Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 149; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 67. ff. 3, 4; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 126; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Agrotis serena, Alph. Rom. Mém. yv. p. 137 (1889). 3. Head and thorax grey-brown to pale rufous; palpi black at sides except at extremity; tegule with blackish triangular patch ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown or ochreous brown. Fore wing grey-brown or pale reddish brown ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved ante- medial line; claviform elongate, black, sometimes with small pale centre; orbicular and reniform fuscous or greyish defined by black, the former usually small, round, sometimes larger, elliptical, brown, and connected with the reniform ; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, termen and cilia tinged with ochreous; the underside with the costal area thickly irrorated with brown; a postmedial series of short black streaks on the veins. @. Head, thorax, and fore wing red-brown to fuscous brown; hind wing largely or almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown. Ab. 1. serena. Paler ; fore wing whitish grey.—Spain; C. Asia. Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; France, Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Sparn; Norway, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Russta; W. Turkestan, Buchara, Ferghana, Sarawschan ; Tiser, Amdo. wp. 36-46 millim. Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 92; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 309, pl. 127. f. 1. Pale pinkish ochreous or brown; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines more or less dark-edged; spiracles large, black ; head pale, with two dark brown marks. Food-plants: roots and leaves of Chenopodium, Brassica, Peucedanum, etc. 7-4. 626. Feltia malefida. (Plate LX VIII. fig. 15.) Agrotis malefida, Guen. Noct. i. p. 267 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. . BF. Abrolis inspinosa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 269 (1852). Agrotis consueta, W1k. x. 334 (1856), ¢. Head ochreous white, brown, or greyish fuscous; palpi blackish at base; tegule fuscous black, with deep black medial line; thorax grey mixed with brown, or brown; tibie and tarsi blackish, with pale rings at the joints; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing grey tinged with brown, the costal area suffused with fuscous; the subbasal line almost obsolete; the antemedial line double, black filled in with grey, waved and bent inwards to vein 1, where it terminates ; claviform short and black; orbicular and reniform black with grey annuli defined by a black line, the former small with its outer VOL. IV. ZA B54 NOCTUID ®. edge produced to nearly or quite join the reniform ; the postmedial line indistinct, highly dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; a subterminal series of pale dentate marks with black beyond those above veins 4, 5, and 7. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and costa tinged with brown. © with the ground-colour greyer. Hab. U.S.A.,1 3, 2 Q type, N. York, N. Jersey, Alabama, 1 9°, Florida, 8. & W. States, California; Cusa; Hatt (Tweedie), 1 3; Bananas, Nassau (Bonhote), 1 ¢ ; Muxtco, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 3, 3 92, Durango (Becker), 1 9, Presidio (Forrer), 1 ¢, Mexico city (Godman) 1 &, (Hoege) 1 2, Coatepec (Brook), 1 9, Patycuaro (Godman), 1 $ ; Costa Rica, Irazu (Rogers), 1 2, Candelaria Mts. (Underweod), 1 3 ,Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venrzurta,2¢,192, type consuetd; Brazrn, type tT Q irspinosa, in Coll. Oberthur; ARrcGEN- gina, Goya (Perrins), 1 6; Fatxtanp Is. (Vallentin), 5 o,4 9. Kap. 44 millim. Larva. Riley, Rep. Nox. Ins. 1885, p. 292, pl. 2. f. 3. (Redescribed.) Head 3-5 millim., pale brown, pale reticulate, curved vertical band dark brown, not angled inward. Cervical shield brown, cut by pale dorsal line and traces of a subdorsal one. Skin rather thin, smooth. Dorsal space broadly pale, brownish shaded centrally, cut by the pale dorsal line faintly. Lateral space brown above next the white edge of the dorsal space, becoming translucent below, the faint lateral line and broad substigmatal band nearly lost, pale. Tubercles large, ight brown, cornified ; spiracles black. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 627. Feltia annexa. (Plate LXVILI. fig. 16.) Agrotis annexa, Treit, Schmett. Eur. v. p. 154 (1825); Steph. Ii. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 117, pl. 22. f. 2; Smith, Cat. Noct N. Am p. 84. Agrotis anteposita, Guen. Noct. i. p. 278 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 283. Noctua lutescens, Blanch. Gay’s Chile. Zool. vii. p. 76 (1852). Agrotis decernens, W1\k. x. 333 (1856). AXylina lutea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 297, pl. xxviii. f. 2 (1889). Agrotis interposita, Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p. 142, pl. vi. f. 19 (1890). ¢. Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with fuscous ; tegule with slight black medial line; legs black and brown; abdo- men pale red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale red-brown, with some fuscous suffusion below base of cell and on costal area before apex; an indistinct double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, very strongly dentate outwards below costa, in cell and above inner margin, and angled outwards in submedian fold; the claviform defined by black, narrow and elongate; the orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, and with a black streak in the cell between it and the reniform ; the postmedial line indistinct, strongly dentate, bent outwards belew costa, and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by a series FELTIA. HD of pale and fuscous dentate marks; the veins of terminal area streaked with black, and with a terminal series of black points, Hind wing semihyaline white, the costa and cilia at apex slightly tinged with brown. @. Fore wing suffused with fuscous, leaving the costal area to end of cell and the terminal area brown. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, 1 ¢, Kansas, 36,29, Texas, 1 ¢,5 9, Florida, St. John’s Bluff (Doubleday), 1 ¢,1 9, California; Beruupa, Challenger Coll.,2 9; Banamas, Nassau (Bonhote), 1 9; St. Dominao (Tweedie), 1 5, 2 2, type decernens ; Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 4 5d, 2 2, type f lutea in Coll. Druce, Mexico city (Godman), 1 3, Patyeuaro (Godman), 1 2, Misantla (Godman), 1 29; Br. Honpuras, Belize, 1 3,2 2; Guatemata (Rodriguez), 1 5,1 9; Cosra Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 3 3, Irazu (Rogers), 1 g; Panama, Chiriqui (Cham- pion), 1 $, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cotompra; Venezuura, 1 dg; Brazizt, Pernambuco (Ridley), 1 $,1 9, Rio Janeiro, 1 ¢; Pxruv, Lima, 2 6,5 9, Huancha (J. J. Walker), 1 9 ; Cuitn (Hdmonds), 26,19; Areunrina, Goya (Perrins), 19. wp. 38-44 millim. gg. French, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 297. Diam. :03 inch, globular, white, base broad, with vertical ridges, of which 12 reaching apex alternate with double the number of different lengths, the ridges connected by slender bars. Larva. (Redescribed.) Head 3°5 millim., pale brown, pale reticu- late, vertical band dark brown, strongly angled at top of clypeus, which is brown filled. Cervical shield well cornified, shining brown, cut by a pale dorsal line and traces of a subdorsal one. Dorsal space broadly pale, faintly brown, clouded on the centres of the segments, heaviest next the obscure, pale, dorsal line. Skin rather thin, smooth. Lateral space brown with faint pale subdorsal and lateral lines. Substigmatal band broad, distinctly but not brightly or very uniformly white-pigmented, the subvertical area becoming trans- lucent. Tnbercles dark brown, rather large and distinctly coruitied ; anal plate brown. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 628. Feltia canities. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 17.) Peridroma canities, Grote, ined. Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white, the scales pencilled with white ; pectus mostly white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with pale red-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown, irro- rated with fuscous, especially towards costa; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line acutely dentate inwards on vein 1; claviform a short fuscous streak ; orbicular and reniform small with fuscous centres, and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold; the subterminal line represented by a series of IN 356 NOCTUID®. small dentate white marks in the interspaces. Hind wing semihya- line white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with brown. Hab, ArcEntiINA, Goya (Perrins), 29, Buenos Ayres (Schimpfer), 2 S type. LHwvp. 40 millim. 629. Feltia experta. (Plate LX VIII. fig. 18.) Laphygma experta, W\k. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 30 (1869). Laphygma innotabilis, Wik. Char. Undeser. Het. p. 381 (1869). ¢. Head and thorax grey irrorated with brown; abdomen whitish, slightly tinged with brown, the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wing grey, tinged with ochreous brown and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by indistinct grey and fuscous strige from costa and median nervure ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line sharply angled outwards above inner margin; clavi- form small, obscurely defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former elliptical or pointed at extremities; an indistinct oblique waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the yeins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line represented by a series of small more or less indistinct dentate pale and fuscous marks in the interspaces; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. Q. Hind wing with the marginal areas tinged with brown. Hab. Perv, Callao,5 3,3 9, type. Hvp. 40-46 millim. Secr. TV. Antennz of male with fasciculate cilia, 630. Feltia clerica. (Plate LX VIII. fig. 19.) Agrotis clerica, Butl. Trans Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 129. Agrotis carbonifera, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 60 (1885); id. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, p. 16, pl. ii. f. 3. Agrotis punta-arene, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iy. p. 53 (1899). 3. Head and thorax black, extremity of palpi and dorsal crests ochreous or tipped with grey; fore tibia brownish, the tarsi with pale rings, the hair of pectus grey-tipped; abdomen blackish irrorated with grey, greyish at base. Fore wing fuscous black, the basal and terminal areas sometimes slightly irrorated with ochreous ; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold sometimes filled in with ochreous; a waved antemedial line sometimes defined by ochreous on inner side; claviform more or less distinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and a few ochreous scales, the former round; the postmedial line dentate, sometimes slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by a series of small obscure dentate black marks, sometimes with slight FELTIA.— HERMONASSA. 357 ochreous points on them; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white with fuscous line at base; the underside with slight postmedial series of black strize on the veins. 2. Hind wing with the costal, inner, and terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous, Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour purplish red. Ab. 2. punta-arene. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground- colour ochreous irrorated or suffused with black. Hab. Cuite (Edmonds), 1 $,1 2 type; Farxzanp Is., Darwin Harbour (Dale), 6 3, 1 9,(Vallentin) 7 $, 6 2; Paraconta, Punta Arenas, type + d punta-arene in Mus. Stockholm ; Trerra DEL Fueco, type f carbonifera in Mus. Paris. Hap, 40-46 millim. Genus HERMONASSA. Type stipes, \\lisssssz, CB (OUEED)) ~~ sonagadaecodoncodsceencaanc00e0KK consignata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and with pointed tuft of hair at extremity, the 3rd long, naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennze ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and seales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia spined ; abdomen dorsally flattened. Fore wing long and narrow, the margins sub- paralled, the apex rounded; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked or from angle of cell. A. Hind wing uniform brown. Guahorenwitieenedaercss.stcecsaemeatsctsrcacacccte apooonbsdo00000NCbce sinuata, DapHorenwintead ar ks bro wide seasa.sntececnc tas ectsedcossser sesccecace cecilia. B. Hind wing pale, at least towards base. a. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins ................2.065 spilota. 6. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. a‘, Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-green or suf- fused in part with olive. Hap. 34-38 millim. a?, Fore wing with the antemedial line bisecting the JES ANGI Grecedeee, COGACCAEROARASURCORC. HoceonecodcacdanoTse incisa. b?, Fore wing with the antemedial line not bisecting the Clavilorimeesee saes-bens sdecsneonnse een seasaeseoere crease lanceola. b. Fore wing fuscous suffused with purple or rufous, rarely with olive. Hap. 32 millim. ................0006- consiqnata, c!, Fore wing pale reddish. xp. 36 millim. ............44- clava. d}, Fore wing whitish. Zap. 34 millim. ...........0.....0000 pallidula. 631. Hermonassa sinuata. Hermonassa sinuata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 353, pl. 388. f£.5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 197. Hermonassa cuprina, Moore, Lep, Atk. p. 120 (1882). Head and thorax dark blood-red mixed with pale rufous; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface blood-red. Fore wing blood-red, with pale rufous streaks on the yeins; the subbasal line greyish 358 NOCTUID2, ‘defined by deep red, oblique from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line pale, defined on each side by red, angled outwards below costa, incurved to above inner margin, where it is strongly angled outwards; stigmata deep red, with pale annuli defined by red, the claviform pointed at extremities, bisected by antemedial line, the orbicular elongate elliptical ; a slight oblique medial shade from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, dark with pale middle, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the sub- ferminal line defined by dark suffusion before it and the pale terminal area, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside with the costal area reddish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous diffused postmedial line. Ab. 1. cuprina. Head, thorax, and fore wing much darker red ; hind wing black-brown. Hab. Stxnim (Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 2 ¢, 29, type cuprina. Exp. 40 millim, 632. Hermonassa cecilia. Hermorassa cecilia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 164 (1874); id. Ill. Het. B. M. iii. p. 14, pl. xliv. ff. 7-9. Opigena arenosa, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 179. Head and thorax dark red-brown, the tips of tegule and dorsal crests with some yellowish, tegule with slight blackish and white medial line ; tibial spurs ¢ and tarsi with yellow ish rings ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark red-brown slightly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line ‘greyish, with }lack marks on each side of it below costa and cell; a short orange streak on subcostal nervure and oblique striga across cell before the antemedial line, which is double, black filled in with greyish, angled outwards helow costa and more strongly above inner margin ; stigmata blackish, with orange annuli defined by black, the claviform bisected by the antemedial line and pointed towards base, the orbicular diamond- shaped ; a shght medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, filled in with grey, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the sub- terminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, most prominently at costa, angled outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind site fuscous brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside paler, the costal area ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. : Hab. Javan, Tokio (Jonas), 1 8, 1 9, type arenosa, Yokohama (Maries, ae ), 33,3 Q type, Hakodate, 1 9; C. Cuina, Kiukiang (Prait),2 g. Hep. 40-42 millim. HERMONASSA, 309 633. Hermonassa spilota. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 20.) Ochropleura spilota, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 55; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 197. 3. Head and thorax rufous; palpi blackish at sides except towards tips; tegule with black line near base and grey tips; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale purplish red, the costal area to beyond middle and cell suffused with ochreous, the veins streaked with ochreous; the sub- basal line represented by two oblique black strive from cell ; stigmata deep black edged with ochreous, the claviform elongate, elliptical, pointed at base, below which there are some black scales ; orbicular elongate, pointed at extremities ; reniform a lunule with pointed extremities; the postmedial line very indistinct, double, angled outwards below costa, then incurved, obsolete below claviform; the postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line defined by slight fuscous suffusion on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, tinged with pale brown towards termen ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside with the costal area suffused with brown, a small dark discoidal point. Hab. Brnear (Russell), 1 go type. Eup. 30 millim 634. Hermonassa incisa. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 22.) Hermonassa incisa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 120 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 1O7. Head pale rufous; thorax olive-yellow slightly irrorated with black, the teguli tipped with rufous; legs rufous ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing olive-yellow slightly irrorated with rufous; the costal edge rufous ; the subbasal line defined by black spots on each side of it below costa and cell; the antemedial line double, brownish with black points on each side of it below costa, angled outwards below costa, then incurved to above inner margin, where it is strongly angled outwards, bisecting the claviform, w vhich j is diamond- shaped and ‘defined by fine double “black lines ; orbicular and reni- form black, their annuli defined by black, the former triangular ; an oblique waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely and irregularly dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold, incurvyed below vein 4; the subterminal line pale, defined by brown suffusion on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous, especially towards margins. Hab. Sixuim, 1 @ type. Hup. 38 millim, Subsp. 1. Much darker; thorax largely mixed with black: fore wing fuscous, the basal area and the costal area to beyond middle suffused with olive-green ; hind wing tinged with fuscous. 360 NOCTUIDA. Hab. Kasumtr, Rala (McArthur), 1 6, Barra Larcha, 1 ¢; Pounsas, Thundiani (VYerbury), 1 9, Dalhousie, 1 9, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 g ; Tisrr, Yatung (Hobson), 13,19. 635. Hermonassa lanceola. (Plate LX VIII. fig. 21.) Hadena lanceola, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 59; Hampsn. Moths Ind. ii. Peal Ons Head and thorax bright olive-green; abdomen fuscous brown with some blackish lateral marks, the ventral surface pale greenish. Fore wing bright olive-green ; the subbasal line formed by double black strie from costa and median nervure, with a black streak in submedian fold to the double waved antemedial line, which is angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin; stigmata deep black with their annuli defined by black, the claviform elongate, the orbicular triangular; a minutely dentate medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal] line pale defined by fuscous brown on inner side, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous, somewhat whitish towards base ; the underside with the costal area greenish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and diffused sinuous post- medial line. Hab, Sixuim (Russell, Dudgeon), 3 3, 19 type. Hep. 34-38 millim. 636. Hermonassa consignata. Hermonassa consigrata, Wik. xxxii. 632 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p- 196; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Hermonassa chalybeata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 358, pl. 38. f. 17; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 197. Hermonassa lunata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 120 (1882). Head and thorax red-brown with a slight olive tinge and a few blue-grey scales; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a slight olive tinge and irrorated with blue-grey ; the subbasal Fig. 67.—Hermonassa eonsignata, 8. 4. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) line represented by pale strige from costa and cell defined on each side by black marks; the antemedial line pale, slight, defined by black scales and more prominent marks at costa, angled outwards below costa, then incurved to above inner margin, where it is more HERMONASSA. 361 strongly angled outwards; claviform represented by a pale-edged deep black triangular mark on inner side of antemedial line and conical mark on outer side; orbicular and reniform deep black with pale annuli, the former rounded or elliptical ; the postmedial line pale, defined on each side by black, minutely and irregularly dentate, angled inwards below costa and in discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, especially towards termen, and with fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area suffused with brown. Ab. 1. Fore wing more ferruginous red, without blue-grey irroration, some black suffusion in cell before and between the stigmata. Ab. 2. Paler; head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing pale olive-greenish ; abdomen and hind wing whitish, the former with the anal tuft rufous. Ab. 3. lunata. Tegule black or with black line at base; fore wing brown suffused with purple, and without blue-grey irroration ; claviform often minute or absent, orbicular more triangular—Kuku- noor, Kashmir, Thundiani. Ab. 4. chalybeata. Smaller; fore wing fuscous irrorated with blue-grey, the markings less distinct, claviform minute or absent.— Yatung. Habs Tiser, Kuku-noor, 1 g, Amdo, Yatung (Hobson), 6 3,6 2; Kasamir, Rala (McArthur), 2 ¢, 2 2, Goorais Valley (Leech), 3 6, (Thompson) 1 3,1 9, type lunata; Punsas, Thundiani (Verbury), 1 9; Srxuim (Lidderdale, Elwes), 5 3, 8 Q, type. Eup. 26-34 millim. 637. Hermonassa clava. (Plate LXVILI. fig. 23.) Graphiphora clava, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 38. ¢. Head and thorax pale rufous, with some white scales on vertex of head, at extremity of tegulae, and upper edge of patagia; palpi with some black at sides; tibia and tarsi with some black and ringed with white ; abdomen pale brownish grey, the ventral surface tinged with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing pale rufous, slightly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line white from costa to submedian fold, defined on each side by black strize from costa and median neryure ; blackish spots above and below submedian fold before the waved white antemedial line, which is slightly defined by black scales and by two prominent striz from costa, angled out- wards above inner margin ; clayiform, orbicular, and reniform deep black, with whitish annuli slightly defined by black scales ; claviform moderate ; orbicular and reniform rather small, the former rounded ; a waved diffused medial fuscous line slightly angled at median nervure ; postmedial line double, filled in with whitish, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 362 NOCTUID®. to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side and by black with white points on it at costa; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially towards termen, the veins and a fine terminal line brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and postmedial line and subterminal band on costal area. Hab. W. Cura, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 ¢ type. Zvp. 36 millim. 38. Hermonassa pallidula. (Plate LXVITI. fig. 24.) Graphiphora pallidula, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 39. 6. Head whitish mixed with black; thorax whitish, rufous, and black ; abdomen brownish ochreous, with some black at sides. Fore wing ochreous white, slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; a double, waved, dark-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with black point on its outer edge; a double, waved, brown antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform rather small, deep black, with pale annuli defined by black, the former round or elliptical; a diffused waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, slightly defined by fuscous on inner side and with a small triangular black spot at costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with fuscous, the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal lies on costal area. Hab. W. Curna, Omei-shan, 3 ¢ type. vp. 34 millim, Genus OPIGENA. Type Opigena, Boisd. Ind, Meth. p. 103 (1840) .......--:eeeeeee reece eee polygona. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint with long pointed tult at extremity in front, the 3rd with pointed tuft in front; eyes large, rounded; frons and vertex of head with tufts of scales; antennz ciliated, the basal joint with tuft of scales; thorax clothed with scales, a double dorsal crest, expanding into spreading crests on pro- and metathorax ; tibix spined; abdomen dorsally flattened. Fore wing long and narrow, the margins sub- parallel, the apex rounded; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 {rom angle of cell; 5 obsulescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 639. Opigena polygona. Noctua polygona, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 176 (1787); Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 125; Godt. Lép. Fy, ii. p. 245, pl. 68. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Noctua nigrofulva, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 127. f. 7 (1788). Noctua pyramis, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 197 (1792). Head and thorax rufous, the tegule with some grey, the patagia . : . i ‘ OPIGENA.—AGROTIS, 363 with some ochreous scales and the dorsal crests tipped with ochreous, the tegule with black medial line and the patagia with black line above; tibiz and tarsi blackish, with whitish rings; abdomen ochreous, suffused and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish rufous, the inner half of medial area suffused with ochreous; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, filled in with ochreous and with some ochreous and black beyond it below the cell ; a double, oblique, waved black antemedial line, filled in with ochreous and slightly angled outwards below costa; clavi- form defined by black above ; orbicular and reniform with ochreous centres and slight ochreous annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, the lower part of cell before and between them LIM NR ELA orek ata a Fig. 68.—Opigena polygona, 3. tt. black ; a slight oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the subterminal line double, minutely dentate, bent out- wards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, incurved below vein 4, the veins beyond it with slight ochreous streaks; the subterminal line ochreous, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by two small dentate black marks and a few scales at middle; a brown terminal line. Hind wing yellowish tinged with brown, the veins brown ; cilia pale yellow, with brownish line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, traces of a sinuous postinedial line distinct on costal area. Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Auvsrrra, Tirol, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Irary; Russra, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Ponrus, Taskent, 1 ¢ ; Turcomanra; Srperta. Hep. 38-42 millim. Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 189. Green ; a dark green lateral stripe edged with white ; a whitish subbasal line on thoracic somites. 5. Genus AGROTIS. Type. Agrotis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iy. p. 66 (1816), non descr.; Treit. NchinetteMutrva Chimps leon (USZO) imerseccssecsewosascsecseteccee rectangula. Graphiphora, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 68 (1816), non deser.. ravida. Caradrina, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. €0 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. Schmett. Hur. v. (11.) p. 246 (1825) ..............00..00. glareosa, Noctua, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. p. 206 (1825), nec Linn, ...... ravida. DH TSte EL Drie V Cl Za Dare (LO) cccersactinceoctaccaberatslecaes re dahhi. NOSE AEG BENG) A, MOA, Fa eP4 (OUSP(0) cosnoneereboanerioogunesnDEecae triangulum, Ochropleura, Hiibn. Verz. p. 223 (1827) ........ssccreesecsceneenes mUsivd. 364 NOCTUID®. Type. Hugraphe, Eulbn Vierz. p> 224182) earesecesce-pececeeeba esses signa. Opygia, Hiibn. sV er. (p. 224 (hO28) )peeeanatndeaeeenesaeeece ese oes flammatra. Chersotis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 103 (1840) ..................-0000e rectangula. Spelotis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 106 (1840) ............ceeseese eee augur. Dichagyrts; sued. Noct-Hurep. 2001 (Sa i) iecsecsccsenmeesteee ees melanura. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front, the Srd with small tuft of hair; eyes smooth, large, round ; frons smooth; antennz of male typically ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, and with crests on vertex of head and on pro- and meta- thorax ; fore tibiz finely spined at sides; mid and hind tibiz spined; abdomen dorsally rather flattened, clothed with rough hair towards base, and with lateral tufts towards extremity. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from LO anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. Secr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate, with rather long branches to apex. A; Teguise black ‘except, ab Daseyece- coe .ceesnn-cceemenscseeaeatetaanatnes badinodis. IBY Deouls with darkimedialiline) 2.c2...scesceoe- esses sae -neseeeeasn ser subrosea. 640. Agrotis badinodis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 25.) Agrotis badinodis, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 13 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 65. Head and thorax rather pale red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tegule black, mixed with rufous towards base ; tibie and tarsi blackish; abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral surface tinged with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown, slightly irrorated with fuscous and tinged with fuscous towards costa and termen; an indistinct slightly curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a blackish antemedial line slightly angled outwards below costa, then almost straight and erect, with a small, somewhat conical, deep black spot on it in cell; claviform only represented by a black point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform only defined by a quadrate brown spot between them in the cell edged before and behind by black; an indistinct fuscous medial line excurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then oblique; an almost evenly curved fuscous postmedial line defined by ochreous on outer side, the area between it and the indistinct subterminal line fuscous, the latter excurved at vein 7 and middle; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish; the underside brownish grey, irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and curved diffused postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, 2 6,1 9; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, Washington, D.C. (Koebele), 1 g¢, New York, Maryland, Texas. wp. 40 millim. 641. Agrotis subrosea. Graphiphora rhomboidea, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 128 (1829), nec Hsp. Graphiphora subrosea, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 200 (1829) ; AGROTIS. 365 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 516, 622, vi. p. 59; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 155. Agrotis subcerulea, Staud. Cat. p. 80 (1871). Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown ; palpi dark brown above; frons black; tegule with dark medial line; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with reddish brown; a waved subbasal blackish line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; hardly a trace of the elaviform ; orbicular and reniform grey irrorated with brown and Fig. 69.—Agrotis subrosea, 5. }. slightly defined by blackish, the former round, the cell before and between them black, or with black fascia above median nervure with rufous above it; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish, suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown especially on terminal area; the underside with small discoidai spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Brirarn, fens (olim); Grrmany, E. Prussia; Swepen; Russa, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Amurtand. Hap. 38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 97; Barrett, Brit. Lep. iv. p. 81, pl. 144. f. 8. Rosy-grey or purplish-grey ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ; spiracular line bright yellow; head and thoracic plate red-brown. Food-plants : Myrica, Salia:, and Andromeda. 9-5. Secr. II. Antenne of male bipectinate, with moderate branches, the apical part ciliated, A. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black ...... hemileuca. B. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black ............ consentanea, 642. Agrotis hemileuca. Agrotis hemileuca, Wik. Tr. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 348 (1873). ¢. Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with obscure black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white, the anal tuft brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing red-brown, suffused and irrorated with fuscous; a dentate black subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a diffused waved antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and very strongly above inner margin; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 366 NOCTUID-E. and reniform pale defined by black, the former small, elliptical, the latter with fuscous centre, a diffused medial shade passing between them; a black streak from the reniform to postmedial line, which is dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian fold ; the subterminal line Fig. 70.—Agrotis hemileuca, 8. }. defined by dentate blackish spots before and beyond it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, some dark points on medial part of termen. Hab, Coneo, 1 3, type. Hvp. 36 millim. *643. Agrotis consentanea. (Plate LXIX. fig. 25.) Agrotis consentanea, Mab. Aun. Soe. Ent. Belge, xxiii. p. evii (1880). 3. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with the basal half irrorated with black ; tibia and tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by two black spots on costa, the antemedial line by two black spots on costa, a spot below the cell, and an angle above inner margin; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform large, filled in with black and traversed by the medial shade, which is angled at lower angle of cell; postmedial line obso- lescent, dentate, bent. outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the costa beyond it black with some pale points; subterminal line represented by an ill-defined series of dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules, Hind wing pure white, with a fine brown terminal line. Hab. Mavacascar, Foulepointe, type t ¢ in Coll. Mabille. vp, 40 milim. Secr. IIT. Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical part ciliated. Ae HMrons' black je wasaeepeaeeaascoeh sce snasteeeeieee secre cece oraceee opacifrons, B. Frons not black. a. Tegule with medial black line. a’. Fore wing with wedge shaped black mark from outer edge of reniform. a’. Fore wing with black fascia between orbicular and HONILOLMD sis-s.(eacceendeent ene teceeameseee eh eaaterceneeeeee spina. &, Fore wing without black fascia between orbicular and srenttOlMy.ce-ena-ccae paaiatetnn re omiceineiiena seats gsaeeiades ypsilon. SO “J AGROIS. 36 b’, Fore wing with slight black streaks from outer edge OU PURETEN COLT e lls nA SeRORr espn cocaDe cher cenchtoeact« doebodcerioseseenc tocionis. c\. Fore wing without black marks from outer edge of Pa . Fore wing with the cell black between orbicular and LOI OTDM se cselsnstcectacsoree ssode eAcseenaoceies saeclece Seaas geniculata, 6°, Fore wing with the cell not black between orbicular reniform. a®, Fore wing fuscous suffused with purplish grey ... plana. 8. Fore wing grey suffused with purplish red......... subcorticea, ueeule without medial black line. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. e Fore wing with the lines entire. . Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate ...... cissigma. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate... violaris. vs eke wing ‘with the lines reduced to points on the VELINS Pace as oceans cere Rite nescence Che neneeclnnsMaceneserses dapsilis. b', Fore wing with the ground-colour pale ochreous ...... aurulenta, 644. Agrotis opacifrons. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 26.) Agrotis opacifrons, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 170 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 61. Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; frons deep black; tibiz and tarsi blackish, the latter with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Fore wing grey, tinged with purplish brown and irrorated with black ; a subbasal black striga from costa and point below the cell; an antemedial striga from costa and points in and below cell, then with traces of a waved line; orbicular defined by black and open above, either narrow U-shaped or semicircular; reniform with its centre and circumference slightly defined by fuscous ; a black streak above median nervure from the antemedial line to the reniform; post- medial line rather indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and incurved between veins 3 and 1; traces of an irregularly waved subterminal line; some black points on termen. Hind wing pale, strongly irrorated and suffused with fuscous, especially on terminal area; cilia whitish; the underside with discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New York, 1 ¢,1 9, type. Hep. 42 millim, 645. Agrotis spina. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 27.) Agrotis spina, Guen. Noct. i. p. 269 (1852), Mamestra nitida, Wik. xxxii. 668 (1865). Mamestra tenebrosa, Wik. xxxii. 669 (1865). Agrotis vastator, Scott, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. 11. p. 40 (1869). 3. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with white; tegule fuscous in front and with black medial line; pectus and legs largely mixed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface strongly irrorated with white. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with rufous towards costa; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedial fold; a double, waved, antemedial line more strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; 368 NOCTUID®., claviform small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform to the postmedial line; an obscure waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with brown especially on costal and terminal areas; the veins brown ; cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and prominent black apical patch. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker. Hab. Queenstand, Brisbane (Zurner), 1 6; N.S.W., Moreton Bay (Diggles), 2 9, type nitida, Sydney (Diggles, Scott, Mathew), 36,9 9, type tenebrosa; Vicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 g, Mel- bourne (Lucas), 1 9; 8S. Ausrratra (Bukewell), 1 9; Tasmania, 29. Kxp. 40-50 millim. 646. Agrotis ypsilon. Noctua ypsilon, Rott. Naturf. ix. p. 141 (1776); Druce, Biol. Centr-Am., Het. i. p. 281; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 66; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Noctua suffusa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80(1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 157; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pl. 147. f. 6; Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109. f. 34. Phalena idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 275 H (1782). Bombyx spinula, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 63. ff. 6, 7 (1782). Noctua robusta, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, p. 75, pl. 6. f. 9 (1882). Agrotis bipars, Wik. x. 834 (1856). Agrotis frivola, Wilgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). Agrotis suffusa, var. pepoli, Bert. Bull. Ent. Ital. vi. pp. 159-146, pl. iil. (1874). Agrotis aureolum, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 107 (1898). Fig. 71.—; Amuntann, 1g, 127; Coruna. Ewvp. 40 millim. 652. Agrotis violaris. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 32.) Agrotis violaris, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 358, Dlavdeataro (1868); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 66. $. Head and thorax violaceous grey pencilled with red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen grey, thickly irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing violaceous grey, rather sparsely irrorated with red-brown, the area between the medial and postmedial lines tinged with brown; the costa dark ; the antemedial line brown, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and incurved between those points ; claviform obsolete; orbicular almost obsolete, with slight brownish annulus, round ; an obscure medial shade angled at lower angle of cell; reniform with pale annulus defined by brown and with some fuscous in lower part; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing whitish, the veins and a discoidal lunule brown; an indistinct curved postmedial line with the area beyond it brown; the under- side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; the discoidal spot and postmedial line distinct. Hab. U.S.A., Middle States, 1 ¢, Pennsylvania. Exp. 42 millim. *653. Agrotis dapsilis. Agrotis dapsilis, Grote, Bull. Gecl, Surv. vi. p. 582 (1883) ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. ¢. Pale ash-grey irrorated with black. Fore wing with the. AGROTIS. 373 lines represented by blackish points on the veins; orbicular a small blackish spot; reniform narrow, erect, dusky; subterminal line only defined by a slight difference in colour between the post- medial and terminal areas. Hind wing pale, the terminal area tinged with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Florida. Hvp.31 millim. This species is unknown to me. 604. Agrotis aurulenta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 26.) Agrotis aurulenta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 215 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 66. Head and thorax pale ochreous; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing pale ochreous; an indistinct curved postmedial series of dark points on the veins. Hind wing ochreous white; the veins and terminal area browner ; cilia pure white. : Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with rufous defining the pale lines, the antemedial line angled, the subterminal line irregular ; the orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and fuscous-tinged centres, the former round. Hab. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 2, Colorado, Arizona. Hup. 40 millim. Szor. IV. (Ochropleura). Antenne of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Tegulz white at base, chocolate-brown at tips. a. Fore wing with the median nervure streaked with white ... clarivena 6. Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked with Wy HNO MeMenee Cat epe charac odes cece raccos caemnce seas cees ncsinades waters mMusivd. B. Tegule concolorous. a. Fore wing with purplish-brown oblong patch on middle of costal area, including the stigmata...............seccceseceeeeee exoleta. >, Fore wing with the cell dark before and between the stigmata. a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate ......... glareosa. b‘. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate ............... docilis. c. Fore wing with the cell not dark before and between the PRAWN be Coobecopode nubacbebadandocependcocenancecnaeronndoobacdocoEr castanea. *655. Agrotis clarivena. (Plate LXIX. fig. 27.) Agrotis clarivena, Ping. Iris, xiii. p. 116, pl. 4. f. 8 (1899); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 254, add. Head whitish and purple-brown ; tegule whitish at base, with deep red-brown patch at tips; thorax pale rufous or mixed with grey ; hind tibie and tarsi white above ; abdomen grey, the ventral surface purplish brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey ; the costal area creamy-white to the postmedial line, the median nervure streaked with white; a trian- gular black patch below base of cell ; antemedial line obsolete from costa to median nervure, then indistinct, double, excurved below cell and more strongly above inner margin, claviform very indistinctly defined by black above; orbicular white, V-shaped, 374 NOCTUIDA. open above, connected or separate from the white on median neryure ; reniform with fuscous centre, irrorated with white, and white annulus; the cell filled in with black-brown before and between the stigmata; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, double, and filled in with pale colour, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by a dark shade on inner side at costa, angled outwards at vein 7, and dentate at veins 4+, 3; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing pale yellowish suffused with fuscous brown, paler towards base; cilia whitish, pale brown at base ; the under- side whitish, with the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, an indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab, T1snt, Kuku-noor, type fT in Coll. Piingeler. Hwp. 42 millim. 656, Agrotis musiva. Noctua musiva, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 118 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 212, pl. 64; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 186; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1438. Head and thorax pale purplish, the hairs tipped with grey ; tegule whitish at base, chocolate-brown at tips; fore tibia and tarsi whitish above, mid and hind tibie dark brown. Fore wing red-brown with a purplish tinge, paler towards termen; the costal area ochreous white to postmedial line, with the veins on it streaked with white; a black-brown patch below base of cell connected with base by a streak; a rather indistinct double, waved, antemedial line from cell to inner margin; claviform minute, indistinct, greyish; the lower part of cell dark brown, defining the V-shaped yellowish- white orbicular which is open above; reniferm fuscous grey, with whitish annulus defined by black at sides; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a fuscous patch with pale points on it on costal area before the subterminal line, which is indistinct, pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, detined on inner side by some pale points; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with reddish brown. Hab, Germany, Zeller Coll.; Ausrrta, Frey Coll.; Swrrzerianp, Leech Coll.; Hungary; Russia, Zeller Coll.; Armenta; AsIA Minor, Pontus ; Srprrra, Zeller Coll., Altai, Zeller Coll.; W. Tur- KESTAN, Fergana ; Ala Tau, Issyk-kul; E. Turxssran, Ili; Moneotra, Changai Mts.; Amur; Kenrer. Exp. 38-44 millim. Larva, Rogenhofer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 799 (1875). Head yellow-brown with dark markings and with some pale hairs ; body dark reddish yellow, marbled with dark grey, forming some oblique subdorsal marks; dorsal and lateral lines dark; ventral surface greyish yellow. Food-plants: Arabis hirsuta and Taraxacum officinale. 4-5. (Sy) = Cr AGROTIS. 657. Agrotis exoleta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 28.) Agrotis exoleta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 26. 3. Head and thorax dark chocolate, the palpi at tips and lower part of frons ochreous ; pectus and femora with the hair pink ; legs brown, the tarsi annulated with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface pink except at extremity. Fore wing olive-yellow ; a purple-brown patch at base of costa; claviform represented by a small rufous spot; a purplish-brown patch on middle of costa with rufous edges, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge slightly angled below costa, the patch embracing the small orbicular and renitorm stigmata which are defined by rufous, the former oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line represented by a slight striga from costa and sometimes some points on the veins; the subterminal line defined by brown suffusion before and beyond it, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing pale fuscous, the marginal areas and costal area of hind wing irrorated with blood-red. Hab. W. Cutya, Omei-shan, 4 ¢, type. vp. 38 millim. 658. Agrotis glareosa. Noctua glareosa, Esp. Schmett. iy. p. 387, pl. 128. f. 8 1789) ; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 159, pl. 21. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 199; Mill. Ic. i. p. 234, pl. 26. ff. 4,8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. . 141. Naa decempunctata, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. pl. 5. f. 17 (1789). Noctua I-geminum, Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 80, pl. 77. f. 6 (1826). Noctua hebreica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 642 (1827); Frey. Neu. Beitr. iii. pl. 201. ff. 2,3. Agrotis edda, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). Agrotis limbata, Gouin, Act. Soc. Bordeaux, v. p. 95, pl. iv. f. 5 (1900). Head and thorax grey, pencilled with pale brown; palpi dark brown at sides except at tips; abdomen grey tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing grey, tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with blackish scales ; the subbasal line represented by deep rufous spots below costa and median nervure; the antemedial line pale, excurved towards inner margin, with deep rufous spots on its outer edge below costa and median nervure ; orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, the former oblique, somewhat quadrate, open above and below, the cell before and between the stigmata deep rufous, traces of a brownish medial shade from cell to inner margin ; * the postmedial line whitish, defined by pale rufous on inner side, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line whitish, slightly defined by brown on inner side, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points usually present. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area more or less tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of a postmedial line towards costa. 376 NOCTUID A. Ab. 1. edda. Much darker; head, thorax, and abdomen grey- brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown; hind wing brown.—Shetland Is. Ab. 2. limbata. Fore wing suffused with blue-green, the terminal area darker.—France, Gironde. Hab, Britain, Shetland (Salvage), Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England, Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry (Salvaye); Francr, Sand Coll. ; Bereium; GErMany; Switzer~tanp; Trrot; N. Spain; Ivary; Drymark, Jutland; Swepen. Ewvp. 30-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 52, pl. 141. f. 1. Light brown, with dark irroration on sides ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale with dark edges; spiracular line pale ochreous; head pale brownish with dark markings. Food-plants: Cytisus, Rumew, Stellaria etc. 9-6. 659. Agrotis docilis. Agrotis docilis, Grote, Bull. Geol, Surv. vi. p. 259 (1888) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. Agrotis ingeniculaja, Smith, Bull, U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 216 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. Head and thorax clothed with dark brown, black, and white scales and hair; tegule with the basal half whitish, defined by a black medial line; abdomen grey and brown. Fore wing bluish grey, irrorated and in places suffused with brown; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, bent inwards at subcostal nervure and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform large, brownish, and : if “gl eS Fig. 72.—Agrotis docilis, 8. 3. defined by black; orbicular and reniform grey, with some brown scales in centre and defined by black, the former large, oblique, elliptical, touching the antemedial line below costa, the latter large ; » the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line irregularly dentate, defined by brown suffusion and with brown patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7; a fine waved black terminal line, Hind wing pale, suffused with brown especially towards termen ; cilia whitish, with brown line through them; the underside whitish anaes with brown; a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial ine. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow, Bruce, Cockerell),1 2,3 ©, type. Exp. 40 millim. | AGROTIS. 317 660. Agrotis castanea. Noctua castanea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 187. ff. 8-11 (1795) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Noctua levis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 207 (1804). Noctua neglecta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f, 160 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 78. f. 4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 154, pl. 21. f. 2. Noctua cerasina, Fry. Neue Beitr. iv. pl. 312 (1840); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 131-3. Noctua xanthe, Woodf. Ent. Mag. xxxvii. p. 116 (1901). Head and thorax bright red, the hair grey-tipped; palpi black- brown, pale at tips; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface reddish. Fore wing chestnut-red; an indistinct blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, incurved at. costa; an indistinct waved antemedial line, incurved in cell and angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brownish, the former small or well developed, rounded, the latter with fuscous mark on its lower part; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of points often present. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous gloss, the cilia reddish ; the under- side ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown except towards base ot inner area, the costal area tinged with red. Ab. 1. neglecta. Ground-colour pale grey-brown; the stigmata well defined. Ab. 2. xanthe. Ground-colour yellow. Ab. 3. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous.— Syria. Hab. Brrratn, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; Gurmany, Zeller Coll.; Ausrrta; Huneary; SwrrzERLAND ; Spain, Catalonia; Ivaty; Russta, Livonia, Leech Coll.; Syrra. Exp. 36-42 millim. Larva, Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 100, pl. 148. f. 2. Pale green or dull brown with dark irroration; dorsaland subdorsal lines pale; spiracular line broad, whitish; head brown or greenish. Food-plant: Calluna. 10-5, Secr. V. Antenne of male ciliated. A. Fore femora and tibiz of male fringed on outer side with thick masses of hair, pectus with masses of floceulent hair and seales. 661. Agrotis temperata. Amathes temperata, Schaus, Trans, Am, Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 226 (1894) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 485, pl. 94. f. 10, Head brownish mixed with black; palpi black, pale at tips; tegule deep black except at extremities ; thorax grey irrorated with brown; fore legs purplish, with the tufts of hair in male blackish ; 378 NOCTUID &. the hair on pectus pale yellow; abdomen grey, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with fuscous on dorsum, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey, striated with dark brown and suffused, especially towards costa and subterminal line, with ferruginous brown; traces of a curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the ante- medial brown line excuryed below costa, then slightly sinuous claviform with its upper edge defined by black; orbicular and reniform whitish, the former open above; the cell before and below the orbicular and between its lower part and reniform deep black ; Fig. 75.—Agrotis temperata, g. }. a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the post- medial line rather indistinct, highly curved and minutely waved, the area beyond it deep ferruginous to the subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; the terminal area grey, irrorated and striated with dark brown; a terminal series of black points; cilia with dark line through them. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, strongly suffused with brown especially towards costa and termen; the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, and the costal area tinged with brown, a black discoidal point and postmedial line on costal area. Hab, Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 3 ; Costa Rica (Underwood), Godman-Salvin Coll., 1 2 ; Braziz, Rio Janeiro. Exp., 3 36, 9 40 millim. Type 7 in Coll. Schaus. B. Fore legs and pectus of male normal. a, Fore wing with the apex produced and acute; claspers of male thickly tufted with hair. 662. Agrotis costalis. Agrotis costalis, Wk. x. 343 (1856). Head and thorax dark red-brown more or less strongly mixed with black ; palpi blackish except at tips ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, with pale rings; abdomen pale fuscous, the hair at sides and extremity tinged with rufous. Fore wing deep red-brown, more or less strongly suffused with black, the costal area ochreous, in one specimen rufous to near apex; the subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa; the antemedial line hardly traceable except on costal area, angled at median nervure, oblique towards costa and inner margin; orbicular and reniform small, the former elliptical, AGROTIS. 379 whitish, the latter with blackish centre and whitish annulus: the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique; traces of a subterminal line ; ; a terminal Fig. 74.— Agrotis costalis, $. +. series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the marginal areas tinged with ochreous; the veins and a terminal line brown ; the underside with dark discoidal spot. Hab. Tristan pa Cunua (Capt. Carmichael), 3 35, 1 Q type. Exp. 40 millim. b. ea wing with the apex not produced and acute. . Underside of wings clothed with silky androconia in male. a?, Underside of wings clothed with black androconia in IN ALO PS eer eee eet ce dnc boas on seenioua tee specccine seams tibiata. b?, Underside of wings with the basal two-thirds clothed with golden olive androconia in male .......... aeeeeilel hypochaleis. 663. Agrotis tibiata. Agrotis tibiata, Guen. Noct. i. p. 273 (1852). Orthosia subnigra, W\k. xi. 747 (1857). do. Head and thorax pale grey, sparsely irrorated with fuscous ; palpi black, white at tips; abdomen grey-black; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen deep black, with a few grey hairs, the spurs and tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with black, the terminal area suffused with biack ; a waved 1 1° black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique rather indistinct waved antemedial line ; orbicular represented by a black point ; reniform rufous, defined by black; postmedial line rather indistinct, strongly dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, 380 NOCTUIDAE, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous black. Under- side uniform deep fuscous black. Q. Fore wing with white spot on reniform; hind wing pale fuscous, the underside white irrorated with black, a black discoidal point and large apical patch. Hab. QueEnstanD, Brisbane (Turner), 2 6,3 9; N.S. Warzs, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 2 ¢,1 2, type subnigra; Vicrorta, Mel- bourne (Lower), 2 9. Hvp. 36-38 millim. Typey in Mus. Paris. 664. Agrotis hypochalcis. (Plate LXIX. fig. 29.) Agrotis hypochalcis, Turner, Proc, Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. 1902, p. 80. 3. Head and thorax pale red-brown irrorated with black; palpi black, whitish at tips; abdomen grey-brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated with black, the inner and terminal areas suffused with black; an indistinct double, waved, sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique double waved antemedial line; orbicular represented by a black point ; reniform black defined by white and with some rufous at middle, narrow, expanding below ; postmedial line indistinct, highly dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by black suffusion on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown. Underside with the basal two-thirds golden-olive with irregular outer edge, the terminal area fuscous. 2. Purple-brown ; fore wing with the reniform more rufous; the underside fuscous with the marginal areas brown; hind wing whitish, thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, curved postmedial line, and apical brown patch. Hab. QuEENSLAND, Brisbane (Turner), 1 6,2 9; N.S. Watzs, Sydney (Raynor), 1 2. Exp. 34-38 millim. 6‘. Underside of wings not clothed with androconia in male. a*, (Diarsia.) Palpi with the hair on 2nd joint produced to a point at extremity. a. Hind wing orange. a‘, Hind wing with blackish discoidal lunule. a’, Fore wing with black bar from costa before sub- terminallline ier censsodsccneencesuseeicitmedscreteeanece orbona. 1°, Fore wing without black bar from costa before sub- (sedeotiarall WGA) sosaoqdoodascoosnnsdocsoeobooonsadnadonoqadoqooC comes. ee Hind wing without blackish discoidal lunule ......... pronuba. Pe Wing ‘not orange. 4, Tegulee wholly INEYO:, -Seregcuadosotoscoopadcssncanaontatacdac collaris. *. Tegulz pale at base, with prominent black patch at tips. iar wing with the orbicular V-shaped, open above. . Fore wing with prominent pale costal fascia from base to postmedial line, with fine streaks on it defining the veins. AGROTIS. a’. Fore wing with black bar from costa before sub- termina lWliner ds checieicccometceeeensacdenece cies Sasictliaht . Fore wing with diffused blackish on costa before oloyvaHanavl Ine) “Loogaondecconsbcosodoonnedcneodeuo6G ie 6°. Fore wing without prominent pale costal fascia. a. Fore wing with black bar from costa before subterminal line. a®, Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with : 5 Se od 8 : PUL PIS APLOW Mee sesascneeerasecsmetsecscceacteeas 50090 5, ANOS WAVE | ODIO TAR? oocapcococoabansd edsodcosuDb5og5e0C b7, Fore wing without black bar from costa before Subtermiim alblin cheese neecsvesoscsseeises acslecttonsiss te vienl 4°, Fore wing with the orbicular elliptical or round. Fore wing with whitish costal fascia. a", Fore wing purplish fuscous .......... Soee oapon erence 6’. Fore wing purplish brown...... smanaseneaVace srernate ai 5 c’, Fore wing pale grey-brown. ue . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown............ Mindkwang pure wititer.ceeeerceccs cece ecss/r eee sy "Fore wing with pale reddish costal fascia ............ Fore wing with the costal area concolorous .. ... eT concolorous or with narrow dark terminal band. a. Fore wing with distinct black bar or spots on costal area before subterminal line. a°, Fore wing with the costal area reddish or ochreous to the postmedial line. a’. Fore wing with the antemediai line angled in- wand spon) wermyll apt eee-(eries tackbiecceede ene piictescietres i7, Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled inwards on yein 1......... apnoonobaonasaRboeebeanadesood b°, Fore wing with the costal area black on medial BOA Waeaactnsaescemnsnestseesied esata sapeideeatdacs sities tes . Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a’. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata. a’. Fore wing with the antemedial line outwardly oblique from below costa to vein 1. w, Head with the vertex black-brown, with pale lateral stripes. a’°, Fore wing with the antemedial line imcurved to costa ..... sfereleleleietne eeieisisleisisials iaisi-/asicielem|nis/e(eleleie.rije » }°, Fore wing with the antemedial line not MUERTE! (0) COS,” copcvoapdonconcansqdocesqnads500. Head with the vertex grey or pale brown, a'°, Fore wing with distinct black spots on outer edge of reniform. a, Fore wing with the outer edge of orbicular angled GR SETS oe ne Oe, FOE bu, Fore wing with the outer edge of orbicular not angled OWNERS cococcasdobeobaccoan GonobD >, Fore wing with the reniform slightly defined by black. 4. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped ...... /., Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, ellip- ICE oe de oucibdeceagabaduLe cas panGtionCace PCoPREMme tc Fore wing with the antemedial line inwardly oblique from below costa to vein 1. a. Fore wing with the subbasal line entire ......... >”, Fore wing with the subbasal line obsolete on costal ‘aréd ........0.0- nuaosachgcoqteeody SADC OC OCOG AOE 381 stents. musivula. e-igrum. degenerata. deraiota. stupenda. misteca, flammatra. atritegulata. mandarini, vidua. renalis. consanguined. costestriga. bicarnea. treatt. NOPIMNANIANA. collart, triangulun. diatrapesium. conchis, Junctura, 38: NOCTUID®, 67, Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. a*, Fore wing with the subbasal line excurved below COBUA Tene eishalare erste eistele tale eee ete alee eat aerate etre eee b°, Fore wing with the subbasal line not excurved below costa. a®, Fore wing with black spots on subbasal line ... }°, Fore wing without black spots on subbasal line. }°, Fore wing without black bar or spots before sub- terminal line. a°®, Fore wing with the costal area whitish to the postmedial line. a’, Fore wing with the median nervure streaked with white? OME ED, sen ae eee rae end coe ek eet: b’, Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked with white. a. Fore wing with the stigmata small. «@. Fore wing with the pale costal fascia not extending beyond postmedial line ...... Jogagcuot 6°. Fore wing with the pale costal fascia extending (Op EEN ESS sridcooe susan deouscopocossuncccéssosconcor me Fore wing with the stigmata large ctenaaennasteehics . Fore wing ‘with the costal area reddish ochreous to the postmedialiline).\.-2...s..c-csccccesessocone see sees c®, Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. «’, Fore wing with black bars from costa at subbasal and rantemedialllimes |e sane. asec eseeacseeseae cee b7, Fore wing without black bars from costa at sub- basal and antemedial lines. a>, Fore wing without black patch below the cell Re hea the subbasal line. . Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a°, Fore wing with the antemedial line highly IGFET I) GoGocds susnbb og sabe dace cobyoaabuonoDbonesaa50" }'°, Fore wing with the antemedial line highly waved, «w, Fore wing long and narrow ....,........... BOOnG bi, Fore wing short and broad .................060 o°, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, slightly waved. a, Fore wing with the terminal area dark. b4, Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous or pale. a”, Fore wing with the postmedial area darker than the ground-colour. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial line out- wardly defined by black from costa to below cell eeiassssacceeseasessaesieineeisete nace }8, Fore wing with the antemedial line not defined by black. a*, Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4. a, Fore wing without grey annulus to reniforin. w’, Fore wing suffused with purple-grey... }16, Fore wing suffused with rufous ......... }°, Fore wing with grey annulus to reni- bg bs Wier CREAR RB Rancon aeacderponadannnaccoaaacce i314, Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved) below vein\4. 2225. -ecece0 sce J'?, Fore wing with the postmedial area not darker than ground-colour. tenuicola. depuncta, baja. vibora. plecta, leucogaster. plectina. signa. albipennis. repleta. crimgera. conupta. rhomboidea. descripta, punicea, brunnea. exusta, MeL Pe ~ AGROTIS, a, Fore wing with the orbicular round or elliptical. a, Fore wing with black and yellow bar in cell beyond the subbasal line ............ 4+, Fore wing without black and yellow bar in cell. a, Fore wing with oblique ochreous striga in cell beyond antemedial line ........ : }°, Fore wing without ochreous striga in cell. a'*, Fore wing with medial shade. a7, Fore wing with dark streaks on the veins. a3, Fore wing with the postmedial line SHAENS)_ 40555 yaoosecooDeadboo sEseDHObsodIONC }8, Fore wing with the postmedial line Ghownl oe), Goooseosoonccosnossobunosenaonencn 27, Fore wing without dark streaks on the veins. w, Fore wing with the termen slightly angled at vein 3. aw, Fore wing with the apex distinctly produced, the lower part of cell Suffasedswith, blacks. e.css-aeas+-0-0= 4! Fore wing with the apex not pro- duced, the cell not suffused with blackeseesesst-sereee Spddseeceonsueonooan }8, Fore wing with the termen not angled at vein 3. a. Fore wing with the inner area concolorous. a, Hind wing whitish towards base. a), Head with the vertex whitish or pale brown. a**, Fore wing with the claviform brown defined by blackish b?, Fore wing with the claviform slightly defined by ochreous AOC DLOWiO\ emetic qiceeicwese se c*, Fore wing with the claviform represented by a black point. a™®, Fore wing not tinged with JOEIAAK) cococoscoopasucmuonocebueos 2», Fore wing tinged with purple. d**, Fore wing with the claviform ALTON aebcadacdeegadse dnote SaggdnbO 61, Head with the vertex rufous or PULPlS-DLOWIM yess picssesiteseescee-p = #29, Hind wing uniform fuscous brown. a>, Fore wing without olive-yellow shade from costa beyond middle. a**, Head and tegule bright choco- Matec OntiAS HIN Pere. sects keie cr b**, Head and tegulie concolorous. a, Fore wing with the ground- colour grey. a4, Fore wing with the cell black between the stigmata ......... »*4, Fore wing with the cell not black between the stigmata... 4», Fore wing yellow-brown, with- out rufous or purple tinge ... 383 bolteri. NEUTOYTAMIG. seastriatd. rosaria. obuncula, calgary. plebeia. mandarinella, jucunda. rube. vanthographa. rubifera. phyllophora. nivisparsd, nebula, Jlavibrunnea, 384 NOCTUIDA, 3, Fore wing suffused with rufous or purplish. se Fore wing short and broad. . Fore wing with the cell between the stigmata not black... -sessseeteesscocsessiens b>, Fore wing with the cell between the stigmata black. i*+, Fore wing long and narrow. a’, Fore wing with the terminal area pale .........seeeeseseee b?°, Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous. a*°, Fore wing with distinct white spot on outer edge Ol TENitOnMsectecsssereels er b°5, Fore wing without white spot on outer edge of reniform. . Thorax with the dorsal crests not tipped with BREYr te aces saan eeee nee o**, Thorax with the dorsal crests tipped with grey . }7), Fore wing with olive-yellowshade on costal area from middle to subterminal line including the MONOMER Go.Aoooans Hod Ronee aeecose 61’, Fore wing with the inner area suffused with blackish............... 1°. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with grey ...... noanononoae b\°, Fore wing without medial shade. aT, Fore wing with the veins not streaked with grey. .. Fore wing not suffused with purple. . Fore wing with brown centre and rl ir a grey annulus (10) 1KEVOVUKOAAD. Gon nehone b, Fore wing with the reniform ochreous whitish ...........-...e0000- }18. Fore wing suffused with purple. a’, Fore wing with white annuli to IMENT, GodgnoanoqoagasoganoseaeosoGo8 2}, Fore wing without white annuli to stigmata odannagenbosaconescosGndda0008 6, Fore wing with the veins streaked With grey ......ssceesseseeceesterteeserees b8, Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, GOI GrcansoseqoacondcaonronsboGuoanonDOa0D00 cl’, Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, Open ADOVE .....eseeeeeeseeesenreereereeeees 500 d°, Fore wing with the antemedial line erect, slightly waved ...s.:seeeeeeseeeteseteeeeeereesees e°, Fore wing with the antemedial line excurved from costa to median nervure, then incurved. 11, Fore wing broad, purplish grey suffused in parts with rufous............ sus ssosmeessoniens db". Fore wing narrow, purplish fuscous suffused in parts with black oP ee. S000 f°, Fore wing with the antemedial line obliquely EXCUPVER Se osceerccus one Mostehiteesaecseneiesonentaas dahli. tarda. cinetipennis. selenias. chersototdes. coniotis. rubicilia. basistriga. glottuloides. cynica. flavirena. tincta. cerastioides. griseivena. esurialis. trigonica. cugramma. cerviad. fennica. relata. AGROTIS. 385 }°, Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. ; a’, Fore wing with rufous annuli to thestigmata, oblata. b.°. Fore wing with pale annuli to the stigmata. a, Fore wing with the claviform elongate, MULVOW SON ceees eee ore hem ee een Jlavotincta, 611, Fore wing with the claviform minute ......... collina, b°, Fore wing with black patch below the cell beyond sudbasal line. a°*, Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, sinuous. a, Fore wing with the cell black between the stigmata, 1, Fore wing with the orbicular large, open above. 2, Fore wing with the lines distinetly defined DYPOLCVMR sete sone teensccncaaaceoswicnectwevces seuss melancholica, b, Fore wing with the lines indistinct ......... sareptand. bh, Fore wing with the orbicular small, open ADONE® stacseie leas sissies weenie actesielie swaiseeneseeosues trisignata, cl, Fore wing with the orbicular small, entire... Lonsa. b'°. Fore wing r with the cell not black between the stigmata scgdonsocoDsbadoDGoSdDoonBHODSOAEACENaSOCOCOs poliogramma, }°. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled out- War ds below costa, then oblique. . Fore wing with the black patch below the cell not comma-shaped. > Hore wing with the orbicular open above. . Fore wing with ochreous or grey annulus to orbicular. . Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by ochreous to the subterminal line ......... albifurca. }'8, Fore wing with veins 2, 3, 4 defined by grey to the subterminal line ............... agalina. Gi: — wing with the orbicular fuscous, veins 2, 3, 4 not defined by ochreous or grey ... substrigata. b4, Fore wing with the orbicular small, round, SUMIR®)osocqsoudopaconpscbaocoddoonocosbanuoosReoneaee celebs. b'°, Fore wing with the black patch below the cell COMMAS APCD Is dscccsesdesnseacn crane mpnonoqoos MORE 665. Agrotis orbona. Phalena orbona, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 304 (1767) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ». 137. WOLAE subsequa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 79 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 106; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 103; Herr.-Schaff. Hur. Schmett. ii. p. 329. Noctua consequa, Hiibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 105 (1827). Agrotis sarmata, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 315. Head and thorax pale rufous to grey, tinged with rufous; abdo- men pale brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale rufous to grey, tinged with olive or dark brown or irrorated with black; an indistinct, double, euryed subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with more prominent striga at costa, a similar antemedial line extending to inner margin; orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, the former round or oblique and open above; the postmedial line indistinct, double, waved, with more prominent strive at costa, oblique to vein 4 and slightly incurved at discal fold, incuryed below vein 4 ; VOL. LY. 20 386 NOCTUID®. the subterminal line indistinct, double, grey, slightly defined by dark suffusion on inner side and by a prominent double dentate black mark below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing orange; some brownish suffusion at base; a black discoidal Innule; a subterminal black band with waved edges, broad towards costa, narrowing towards tornus; the underside with the costal area red suffused with white. Ab. 1. consequa. Fore wing darker. Hab. Brrvar, Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll.; Denmark (Dohlinann); Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Ausrrta, Leech Coll.; Sparn; Corsica; ScANDINAVIA ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenra; Asta Minor; Syrta, Leech ‘oll.; W. Turkestan, Kurdistan; Torcomanta; Kasuurr, Dana (McArthur), 1 9; Punsas, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 6, 2 9. Exp. 40-46 rmillim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep p. 101; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 20, pl. 188. f. 3. Greyish ochreous or fuscous; dorsal line broad, ochreous-yellow, with fine black edges; a subdorsal series of dark fuscous oblong marks, with a yellowish-grey line below them; lateral line pale ; subspiracular line broad, pale ochreous with dark edges ; head pale fuscous with dark markings. Food-plants: grasses, Léanuneulus, Primula, ete. 9-4. 666. Agrotis comes. Noctua orhona, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1787), nec Hiifn.; Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. x. p. 46, pl 343. f. 2; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 59. ff. 2-5 ; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent.. Haust. ii, p. 102; Herr.-Schaif. Hur, Schmett., Nect. f. 828; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Noctua subsequa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 104. ff. 1-3 (1786), nec Schiff, Noctua pronuba minor, Vill. Ent. Linn. i. p. 279 (1789). Noctua comes, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 254 (1825) ; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 521 (1827). Noctua adsequa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 256 (1825). Noctua prosequa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. vy. 1, p. 256 (1825). Noctua bergensis, Sp. Schn. Bergen. Mus. Aarbog, 1901, p. 155, pl. —. f. 2. Head and thorax rufous to grey with a reddish tinge ; abdomen ochreous, the lateral and anal tufts and ventral surface tinged with red, Fore wing rufous irrorated with black, to grey irrorated with rufous; the subbasal line represented by striz from costa; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, or obsolete and represented by double strie from costa and points on the veins; orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, the former oblique, open above, the latter with some fuscons in its lower part; the postmedial line indistinct, double, with dark points on the veins at its outer side, oblique towards costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined by slight dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing orange; the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a dark discoidal lunule ; a fuscous subterminal band with waved edges, wide towards costa, AGROTIS. 387 narrow towards tornus; the underside with the costal area suffused with red. Ab. 1. adsequa. Paler and more uniform in colour. Ab. 2. prosequa. Fore wing with the markings more prominent. Ab. 3. curtisi. Smaller; fore wing suffused with black or red, the markings distinct ; hind wing often more or less suffused with fuscous.—Shetland Is. Ab. 4. bergensis. Fore wing partly suffused with fuscous.— Norway. Hab. Brrratn, Shetland Is., Hebrides, Leech Coll., Forres (Salvage), England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland (Salvage) ; France, Leech Coll. ; Geruany, Zeller Coll. ; Swirzertanp, Leech Coll.; N. Spain; Arciers; Canaries; Scanprnavia; Russta, Livonia; ARMENIA ; Astra Minor; Syria, Leech Coll. Hap, 38-50 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 17, pl. 159. Pale greyish ochreous to brown ; dorsal line faint; subdorsal line brown, with longitudinal marks on somites 10, 11, pale-edged below, tending to be connected by a bar on somite 11; a spiracular series of dark brown oblique marks ; spiracular line pale, sometimes tinged with pink ; head light brown, with darker markings. Food-plants : Stellaria, Salix, Rubus, Rumex, ete. 9-5. 667. Agrotis pronuba. Noctua pronuba, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 102. f.1; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 108; Godt Lép. Fr. v. pl. 58; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 190; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Noctua innuba, Treit. Schmett. Eur, v. 1, p. 265 (1823); Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 104. Agrotis hoegii, Herr.-Schaff. Neue Schmett. ff. 117, 118 (1856). Head and tegule white mixed with dark brown, tegule with brown medial line and dark tips; palpi dark with white tips; thorax dark brown ; tibial spurs and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface irrorated with grey. Fore wing pale reddish brown to dark brown, irrorated and suffused in parts with grey and with dark striz ; a double curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a more or less indistinct double wayed antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli, the former rather oblique, elliptical, often filled in with grey, the latter with its centre or lower part fuscous ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line pale, with two black spots before it below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; some dark points on termen, Hind wing orange; the costal area tinged with fuscous; a nearly terminal black band with wayed edges, broad at costa, narrowing and not reaching tornus ; the underside with the costal area pinkish grey irrorated with black, and with a rufous postmedial line on it. Ab. 1. Paler and with the thorax concolorous. Ab, 2. hoegi. Smaller; hind wing with small discal black spot, 2c2 « 388 NOCIUID®. Hab. Briraiy, England, Leech Coll., N. Wales (Salvage); Francr, Sand Coll. ; Denmark (Dohlmann); Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; SwitzeRraAnp; Spain; Iraty; Scanpinavia; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Grerce (Merlin); W. & C. Asta; Ecypr, Cairo (Flower) ; Punsas, Dharmsila (Hocking),19. Exp. 52-60 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 100; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 26, pl. 140. Pale green to dull brown; dorsal line pale; a subdorsal series of blackish longitudinal marks on somites 4—11, with a pale line below them ; subspiracular line pale ; head pale brown with dark markings. Food-plants: Brassica, Taraxacum, Rumex, etc. 9-65, 668. Agrotis collaris. (Plate LXIX. fig. 30.) Agrotis collaris, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. i. p. 348, pl. 7. f. 53 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. Palpi brown, their extremity and frons whitish; vertex of head and tegulz black ; thorax purple-grey, the scales tipped with pale grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen fuscous irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark purple-grey irrorated with brown; a subbasal grey line from costa to submedian fold; a grey antemedial line defined by brown on outer side and slightly bent inwards to costa; claviform small, more or less completely outlined in black; orbicular and reniform purplish grey with pale grey annuli, the former oblique V- shaped, open above, the latter constricted at middle ; quadrate black spots in the cell before and between the stigmata; a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line grey, defined by brown on inner side, curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; an inwardly diffused dark subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; an indistinct series of terminal points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish at tips; the underside with discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial line, Hab, Canapa; U.S.A., New York, 2 ¢,.1 9, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Colorado (Cockerell), 2 6. Exp. 36 millim. 669. Agrotis stentsi. (Plate LXIX. fig. 31.) Agrotis stentzt, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 3867, pl. 4. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Ochropleura triangularis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867,p.55; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 189. Head and thorax pale purple-brown ; vertex of head and basal half of tegula ochreous white, the terminal half of tegulee with semi- circular black patch ; fore tibiw and tarsi ochreous white above ; abdomen greyish brown, Fore wing purple-brown to nearly black ; the costal area ochreous white, with slight dark streaks on it to the postmedial line, extending to just below cell at base ; a black streak in base of submedian fold expanding into a triangular subbasal patch; a pale sinuous antemedial line from costal area to inner margin, with a blackish point on its outer edge representing the claviform ; orbicular ochreous or ochreous-white, triangular, confluent with costal area, defined by black and emitting a streak below the AGROTIS. 389 costal fascia to the subbasal black patch; reniform with fuscous centre with ochreous lunuls on it and ochreous annulus defined ou inner side by black; the postmedial line minutely dentate, often defined by ochreous on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved at median nervules, then o blique ; ; the subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by an oblique black bar at costa, then by some points, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4,3, Hind wing fuscous brown. Ab. 1. Fore wing more variegated and irrorated with grey ; elaviform well developed, defined by black, orbicular with grey centre; a waved medial line from cell to inner margin.—Kashmir, Punjab. Hab. Stperta, 1 9; W. Turxestan, Ferghana; KE. Turxesran, Th; Tiser, ee ees Ussuri ; Jaran, Yokohama (/Pryer, Manley), 1 6,22, Ghunzencn (Lewis), 1 9; Kasuuir, Rala (Me- Arthur),2 3,2 39 , Kokser (McArthur), 2 ¢,Narkundah (McArthur), 29; Kutv, Sultanpur (G4. eS) 1°O= Ponsan, Simla, lige 3 ae 1 3g, Murree (Verbury), 1 ¢, Dharmsiila (Hockiny), 4+ 3, 2 9; Tiswr, Yatong (//obson), 4 5; Stkuim (Russell, Lidderdale), ra ike eel PCa ty pe triangularis, Exp. 36-48 millim. 670. Agrotis musivula. (Plate LXIX. fig, 32.) Agrotis musivula, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 810 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. ¢. Head and thorax red-brown with a purplish tinge ; tegulie pale rufous at base, with white medial line and black-brown tips ; abdomen grey-brown, the yentral surface blackish, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing purplish brown, the disk bright red-brown ; the costal area brownish ochreous with red-brown streaks to the post- medial line, extending to just below cell at base; an olive-brown subbasal patch below the cell; the antemedial line obsolete towards costa, excurved below the cell and above inner margin, angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former V-shaped, open above, the cell before and between them tinged with dark olive-brown ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outw ards below costa, excurved to yein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line indistinet, pale, defined on inner side by diffused blackish at costa, then by a series of small dentate dark marks slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with darker terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia ; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, Hab. Tiser, Kuku-noor, 1 g¢, Amdo. Lap. 34 millim. 671. Agrotis c-nigrum. Noctua c-nigrum, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 516 (1758) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pl. 24. f. 111; ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189; Smith, C Cat. Noct. N. Am. pe i2s Bombyx nun- -atrum, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iu. text p. 885 (1777). Noctua gothica, var. singularis, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 76. £. 3 (1777). 390 NOCTUID.E. Head and thorax pale to deep purple-brown, often mixed with white; palpi black except at extremity; tegule except at tips white tinged with olive ; tibize and tarsi blackish, ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale grey, tinged with purplish brown to deep purple-grey; the sub- basal line double, blackish, curved from costa to vein 1 but interrupted at cell, and with some brown or black suffusion beyond it in sub- median fold ; the antemedial line double, oblique, waved and excurved above inner margin; claviform with its extremity defined by a V- shaped black mark ; orbicular brownish white, defined by black in Fig. 76.— ; Japan (Jonas, Pryer, Manley), 13,3 Q, type, Chak (Pryer), 29, GSEs 1g; Corga, Gensan (Ito),1 g. Exp. 52-60 millim. AGROTIS. 393 *675. Agrotis mysteca. (Plate LXX. fig. 3.) Carneades mizteca, Schaus, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 226 (1894). Q. Head rufous slightly mixed with white; tegule ochreous at base, shading to white before the large semicircular black terminal patch ; thorax purple-brown mixed with white; abdomen red- brown, the ventral surface irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing purple-brown; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial line; a black patch below base of cell; a double antemedial line from cell to inner margin, incurved to vein 1, then excurved ; clavi- form with its upper edges defined by black ; orbicular and reniform purple-brown, with a few white scales forming the annuli, the cell before, between, and above them black, the orbicular round, the reniform with its outer edge defined by black scales; a double_ waved postmedial line, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line represented by diffused patches of grey scales mixed with a few black ones on its inner edge, more prominently black towards costa. Hind wing white, suffused with reddish brown towards margins, the veins brownish, the cilia yellowish with a brown line through them; the underside with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striz on the veins. Hab: Mexico, Jalapa, type fT @ in Coll. Schaus. wp. 40 millim. 676. Agrotis flammatra. Noctua flammatra, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 124; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 169, pl. 60. f.4; Himpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 189; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. Aagrotis deleta, Koll. Ins. Pers. p. 53 (1848). Agrotis basiclavis, Wik. x. p. 846 (1856). Agrotis bimaculata, Mill. Cat. rais. pt. 2, Suppl. p. 15 (1875). Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with purplish red; palpi dark brown at sides except at tips ; tegule with semicircular black- brown patch; tarsi with pale rings to the joints; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with purplish red ; the costal area usually pale to middle or postmedial line; the subbasal line represented by slight double striz from costa; a black streak in base of submedian fold, expanding beyond the subbasal line ; the antemedial line double, waved, almost obsolete on costal area; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform brownish grey, the former rounded, open above, defined by black below, the latter defined by black on inner side, or with the cell black before the orbicular and sometimes also between the stigmata ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, shghtly defined by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; the subterminal line greyish, often defined by slight dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4 and 3; traces of a terminal series of black points and a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous whitish 394. NOCTUIDE. suffused with pale brown; the cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, Hab, Brrratn, Leech Coll.; France; Germany; Avusrrta, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll. ; Spars; Corstca ; [rary ; Syria, Lebanon (Mrs. Nicholl); Persta; W. Srperia, Altai, 1 2, Leech Coll.; Kasuurr, Narkundah (McArthur), 2 6; Ponsas, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 g, Rawal Pindi (YVerbury), 2 6, Dharm- sila (Hocking), 4 6,38 9, Mynpuri, 1 ¢, Allahabad, 1 ¢ ; Trser, Yatung (Hobson), 229 ; Sixuim (Lidderdale), 1 S$, 192. Hep. 40-60 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 99; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 50, pl. 142. f. 4. Uniform green, with pale spiracular stripes. Food-plants: Ta- ravacum, Fragaria. 9-5. 677. Agrotis atritegulata. (Plate LXX. fig. 4.) Agrotis atritegulata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 261 (1902). 3S. Head ochreous white ; palpi blackish except at tips; thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous, the tegule with large black patch and without rufous tinge; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey, the costal area ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge ochreous; some whitish at base of inner margin; a deep black fascia in and below cell to the orbicular and thence in the cell to reniform, which is defined on outer side by black. Hind wing pure semibyaline white; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous and with some dark postmedial points on the veins. Hab. Transvaat (oss), 1 ¢ type. Hvp. 38 millim. 678. Agrotis mandarina. (Plate LXX. fig. 5.) Ochropleura mandurina, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 36. Q. Head black mixed with brown and grey ; tegule pale rufous, their tips and the patagia deep rufous; thorax grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen dark brown. Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated with dark brown and suffused with purple-grey ; the costal area ochreous with a rufous tinge to the postmedial line; a black patch below base of cell crossed by the double, curved, subbasal line; a double obliquely sinuous antemedial line; claviform with its ex- tremity slightly defined by brown; orbicular and reniform reddish ochreous, their centres defined by brown, the former small, round, the latter with its outer part suffused with dark brown, the cell before and between the stigmata deep black ; the postmedial line double, brown, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line somewhat dentate, rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a waved dark terminal line. Hind wing yellowish brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with grey. Hab. W. Cana, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 9 type. Hap, 48 millim. AGROTIS. avo 679. Agrotis vidua. Agrotis vidua, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 409, pl. 7. f. 3 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. Head and tegule ochreous; palpi except at tips, and tips of tegulee black; thorax purple-brown; tibie and tarsi above ochreous ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous brown. Fore wing brown suffused with purple; a slight black streak in base of submedian fold ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line with a rufous tinge on it; clavi- form with its extremity slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by the cell being deep black before and between them and with slight reddish-ochreous annuli, the former oblique ; a slight oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line represented by a more or less promi- nent series of ochreous points with slight dentate black marks on their inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing yellowish brown; the underside with some pale irro- ration on costal area, a curved postmedial line. Hab. Amurtann, Ussuri; W. Cutna, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 9, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 2 ¢, Omei-shan, 1 2, Wa-ssu-kou, 1 g,19. Eep. 46-52 millim. 680. Agrotis renalis. (Plate LXX. fig. 6.) Ochropleura renalis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 55; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p: 188. Ochropleura subpurpurea, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 35. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with rufous and the scales tipped with blue-grey ; the tegulee sometimes olive-ochreous except at tips ; the metathorax with rufous crest ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft tipped with ochreous. Fore wing dark brown suffused with purple-grey; the costal area ochreous or rufous to the post- medial line; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, in which there is a short black streak ; the antemedial line double, waved, excurved above inner margin and with oblique black streak before it in cell; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rounded or diamond-shaped, open aboye, the cell before and between the stigmata suffused with black ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the sub- terminal line indistinct, defined on inner side by an oblique black bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark fuscous brown, with fine ochreous line at base of cilia; the underside irrorated with grey. Hab. W. Cutna, Omei-shan, 1 ¢, type subpurpurea, Wa-ssu-kou, 1 2; Ponsaz, Simla (Marford), 2 $,29, Dalhousie, 19. Lap. 52-60 millim. 396 NOCTUID. 6381. Agrotis consanguinea. (Plate LXX. fig. 7.) Ochropleura consanguinea, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 353; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 188. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with reddish brown, some of the scales tipped with grey ; tegule sometimes ochreous except at tips; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing dark brown with a greyish gloss ; the costal area ochreous or tinged with rufous to the postmedial line; the subbasal line represented by a black point below costa and a curved line between cell and vein 1, followed by a blackish patch with black point above it in cell; the antemedial line double, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reni- form defined by black and their centres by brown, the former round or somewhat oblique, elliptical, the latter with some rufous on its upper part, the cell before and between them black ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then ineurved: the subterminal line defined on inner side by an oblique black bar from costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing pale fuscous brown; the cilia grey with a brown line through them ; the underside pale, the costal area thickly irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. Kasumtr, Dras, 1 ¢, Scinde Valley, 1 ¢ (Leech); Punsas, Simla (Harford), 1 3, Dalhousie, 2 ¢, 1 Q type, Thundiani ( Yer- bury), 13, Murree (Harford), 1 3, Dharmséla (Hocking), 23,6 9; Tiser, Yatung (Hobson), 1d. Ewp. 42-50 millim. 682. Agrotis costestriga. (Plate LXX. fig. 8.) Agrotis costestriga, Staud, Iris, viii. p. 805, pl. 5. £. 14 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 3. Head and thorax black mixed with purplish red and suffused with grey ; palpi at tips and frons white ; tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen ochreous brown, darker below. Fore wing purplish fuscous suffused with grey, especially on basal costal area and near the postmedial line ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with a point in the cell beyond it; the antemedial line strong, black, oblique from costa to median nervure, then indis- tinct, waved ; the claviform defined by black above; the cell and costal area in medial area black suffused with blue-grey ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, oblong, open above, the latter open below; a slight line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, obsolescent except towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line repre- sented by an indistinct series of small ochreous and brown spots and an oblique black bar from costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; cilia AGROTIS, 397 more ochreous; the underside with the costal area purplish red irrorated with grey and black, a discoidal lunule and sinuous post- medial fine. Hab, Trent, Amdo, Sinin Mts.,1 ¢. Hyp. 38 millim. 683. Agrotis bicarnea. (Plate LXX. fig. 9.) Noctua bicarnea, Guen. Noct. i. p. 829 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p- 71. Mamestra plagiata, Wk. xxxii. 664 (1865). Head, tegula, and base of patagia more or less mixed with black ; palpi except at extremity, sides of frons, and vertex of head black ; frons with whitish bar above; thorax grey, more or less tinged with brown or fuscous; abdomen ochreous white tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing purplish fuscous ; the subbasal line pale, defined on each side by black, curved, from costa to vein 1, an ochreous brown-suffused patch on costal area, with black mark below it in submedian fold from the subbasal to the antemedian line, which is pale defined on each side by. black, slightly sinuous and incurved to costa ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform fuscous, with grey annuli and black outlines, the former oblique, elliptical, often open above, the latter open below, the cell before and between the stigmata deep black; the post- medial line double, defined on each side by black, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex; a sinuous subterminal series of small ochreous and black dentate marks with a diffused black patch on costa. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with fuscous brown, uniformly in female, deepening to termen in male; cilia ochreous with a brown lne through them; the underside paler, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canava (Norman), 2 g, Renfrew Co., 1 9, Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., Northern States east of Rocky Mts., Trenton Falls (Double- day), 4 2, type plagiata, Massachusetts, Beverly, 5 3, 3 9, Colorado. wp, 40-42 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). Head 3°5 millim., pale, distinctly reticulated, the vertical curved band very heavy and nearly black, distinct below, without spot in clypeus ; line from eye distinct on lower half of face. Body a little flattened, light brown, streaked and mottled with darker brown; dorsal Fu subdorsal lines pale, narrow, about alike, tho . former broadly bordered with a dark brown area which is retracted at the incisures, the latter narrowly brown-bordered, thus leaving a pale space between that widens at the incisures ; a broad dark brown suprastigmatal band just enclosing the spiracles, edged below by the whitish, narrow, slightly waved upper line of the substigmatal band, which is pale, faint, reddish, sharply edged, nearly concolorous with the light brown subventral area; spiracles brown, black-rimmed. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D, 398 NOCTUID.®. 684. Agrotis treati. (Plate LXX, fig. 10.) Agrotis treati, Grote, Can, Ent. vii. p. 186 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 71. g. Head and thorax fuscous mixed with red-brown and grey ; palpi black, white at tips ; frons whitish, with black spots at sides ; vertex and back of head with some black; patagia with white transverse lines; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdo- men white irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish fuscous ; the subbasal line black, defined by white on outer side, waved from costa to vein 1, and followed by a black streak in submedian fold ; the antemedial line pale, defined by black on each side, oblique from costa to submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1; the claviform small, irregular, black; orbicular and reniform conco- lorous with greyish outline, defined by black in the cell before and between them and on outer edge of latter, both open above and below ; postmedial line pale, defined on each side by black, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; an irregular subterminal series of small dentate black marks. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, especially on the veins and towards termen ; the underside with discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and dark apical patch. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 ¢ type. vp. 38 millim. 685. Agrotis normaniana. (Plate LXX. fig. 11.) Agrotis normanianus, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 89 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 71. Agrotis obtusa, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. pp. 124, 126 (1875). Head and thorax grey, mixed with purplish brown and irrorated with black; palpi black, white at tips; tarsi black, ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, tinged with rufous at sides and extremity. Fore wing grey, more or less suffused with purple- brown and irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line pale, defined on each side with black and curved from costa to vein 1; ante- medial line pale, defined by black on each side, oblique, slightly sinuous and excurved to inner margin; the claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey with black outlines, the former rather V-shaped, open above, the latter open above and below and its outer edge broken up into points, the cell before and between the stigmata dark brown; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line pale, defined on each side by fuscous, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 4, often with a series of black points beyond it ; a subterminal line angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle, with two small dentate black spots below costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. AGROTIS. 399 Hab. Canava (Norman), 12 , Renfrew Co.,1 3; U.S.A., Northern, Middle, & Eastern States, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 3 ¢,1 9, New York, 4 g, 1 9, type, Michigan, 1 9. Hap. 38-42 millim. 686. Agrotis collari. (Plate LXX. fig. 12.) Agrotis kollari, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 866, pl. 4. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Ochropleura plumbata, Butl, Trans, Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 180. Head and thorax grey, the former mixed, the latter largely suffused with purple-brown, a grey line near tips of tegule and a black streak near upper edge of patagia; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft with rufous. Fore wing purplish grey ; the subbasal line prominent, black, defined by white on outer side, extending from costa to vein 1 and with black patch beyond it below the cell; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, then incurved to above inner margin, where it is excurved ; the medial area suffused with purplish red and fuscous ; claviform defined by grey and black at extremity; orbicular and reniform purplish grey, defined by black and their centres by reddish brown, the former oblique, elliptical or rather V-shaped, open above, the latter large, the cell before and between them deep black; a diffused waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, with a series of black and white points on the veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and more strongly below vein 4; the subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side and by some dentate black marks towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish with brown line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Ab. 1. plumbata. Thorax browner; fore wing with the medial area and stigmata more suffused with red-brown ; hind wing darker brown.—Japan. Hab. Russia, Urals; Srpzrta, 1 go, 1 9, Altai; Ussurr; Kam- scHATKA ; JAPAN, Tokio (Manes), 2 2, type plumbata, Yokohama (Pryer), 29. Hap. 44-52 millim. 687. Agrotis triangulum. Phalena triangulum, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 806 (1776); Steph. Ill. Brit, Ent., Haust. ii. p. 153; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188. Noctua sigma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 186. ff. 1, 38 (1796); Hiibn. Samm, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 497; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 174, pl. 60. f. 6. Head and tegule except tips brownish white; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; extremities of tegule and thorax red-brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale greyish brown suffused with red-brown ; the subbasal line pale, A400 NOCTUIDA. with black spots on its inner side below costa and cell, a black patch beyond it below the cell with a point in cell above its extremity ; the antemedial line double, the outer blackish and strong from costa to submedian fold, shghtly angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly incurved to above inner margin, where it is angled outwards; claviform with its upper edge defined by black; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, V-shaped, open above, the latter con- stricted at middle, the cell before and between them black-brown ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins and with a black striga on its inner edge at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line® greyish, slightly defined by brown on inner side and by an oblique black bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small dark points. Hind wing brown; the cilia ochreous ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, Brrrary, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanpn; Itaty; Datmarta ; Scanpinavia: Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Kasumir (Thompson), 1 ¢. Exp. 36-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p 100; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 46, pl. 142. f. 2 Ochreous or brown speckled with black; dorsal line pale ; a sub- dorsal series of oblique dark marks on somites 4-11, darker and confluent on 11 and followed by a pale bar; subspiracular line pale ochreous ; head pale brown with blackish markings. Food-plants: Rumex, Stellaria, Salix, ete. 8-5. 688. Agrotis ditrapezium. Noctua ditrapezium, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776); Bork. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 517; Hubn. Hur. Schmett., Noct. f. 472; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. Nestea. tristigma, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 248 (1825). Head and thorax reddish brown, tinged with vinous red and slightly mixed with white ; tegule with white line near tips; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, often largely tinged with red; the subbasal ‘line greyish, defined by black striae on each side ‘of it and extending from costa to sub- median fold, where there is a black patch bey ead it with an oblique striga above it in cell; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, oblique, and nearly straight to vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and their centres with brown, the former oblique, elliptical or somewhat triangular, open above, the cell before and between them deep black ; an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, AGROTIS. 401 then incurved; the subterminal line ochreous, defined by reddish brown on inner side and by an oblique black bar from costa, angled outwards at vein 7, and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous, suffused with fuscous on costal and terminal areas, cr nearly wholly suffused in female; the cilia ochreous; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous and the former suffused with purplish red. Hab. Lasravor, 1 ¢ ; Brirarn, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Iratry; Brrnynra; Srperta; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, li; Amurtanp, Ussuri. vp. 42-50 millim. Subsp. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and more purplish; hind wing without ochreous tinge except on cilia. Hab. Japan, Hakodaté (Andrews), 1 29; W. Curtna, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 6,1 2, Huang-mu-chang (Pratt), 1 9. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 190; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 56, pl. 143. f. 1. Pale dull pinkish ochreous with blackish irroration ; dorsal line pale, obscure ; a subdorsal series of dark marks on posterior somites, on somite 12 blackish, and sometimes connected, followed by a pale bar; subspiracular line pale; head ochreous with brown markings. Food-plants: Rubus, Rumex, Saliv, ete. 8-5. 689. Agrotis conchis. (Plate LXX. fig. 13.) Agrotis conchis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 43 (1879); id, Ill, Essay, 51, pl. a f.8; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 71. 2. Head, tegule, and patagia pale chestnut, the extremity of tegule and upper part of patagia dark red-brown; dorsal part of thorax grey; pectus pale chestnut in front; tibiz and tarsi rufous irrorated with black; abdomen grey suffused with rufous. Fore wing purplish grey with slight brown irroration; a pale patch tinged with rufous at base of costa, with the black subbasal line on it angled outwards below costa, and with a black and whitish point beyond it in cell; the antemedial line double, slightly sinuous and bent outwards to inner margin; claviform represented by a black point; orbicular and reniform chestnut with pale centres, yellowish annuli and black outline, the former oblique, U-shaped, open above, the latter open above and below, the cell before and between the stigmata and just beyond the reniform black with some rufous below it on median nervure ; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved and with slight series of points beyond it on the veins; subterminal line defined by grey on outer side, angled inwards below costa, where there is a diffused black patch on its inner side, and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, especially on terminal area; the underside with dark dis- coidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 9 type, New Mexico. Lap. 40 millim. VOL. IV. 2D 402 NOCTUID®. 690. Agrotis junctura. (Plate LXX. fig. 14.) Agrotis junctura, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 351; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 189. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous and dark brown ; tegule red-brown or blackish at tips; abdomen ochreous whitish, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale grey, the interspaces of costal area slightly streaked with brown; the subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa and a prominent oblique striga from median nervure to vein 1, defined by grey on outer side, a fine, very oblique black streak across cell beyond it; the antemedial line black defined by grey on inner side, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then inwardly oblique and very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform tinged with fuscous and prominently defined by black; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter with some pink and fuscous at centre and angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them black and the area below the cell suffused with purplish pink; the postmedial line indistinct and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line grey, slightly defined by brown on inner side and a black bar at costa, angled slightly outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous. Hab. N.W. Hutarayas, Dalhousie, 4 5 type. Hep. 40 millim. *691. Agrotis tenuicola. Agrotis tenuicola, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 168 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. Pale greyish brown tinged with rufous. Fore wing with the subbasal line excurved below costa, a dark point beyond it in cell; a double somewhat dentate antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; claviform represented by some black scales; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and pale annuli partially defined by blackish; an indistinct waved medial shade; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, somewhat angled beyond cell, incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line defined by two dentate black marks on its inner side below costa, then by a slight shade, somewhat angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle, placed rather near termen; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing uniform grey. Hab. U.S.A., New York. Hwp. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me. 692. Agrotis depuncta. Noctua depuncta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1757) ; Esp. Schmett. pl. 177. f.3; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 191, pl. 62. ff. 3,4; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 133; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. AGROTIS. 403 Noctua mendosa, Hibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 120, 502 (1827). Agrotis pontica, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). Agrotis consenescens, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 266 (1891). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and irrorated with dark scales; palpi black-brown except at tips; abdomen ochreous brown irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing grey-brown more or less strongly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black scales; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line whitish, oblique, minutely waved, with black spots on its outer side below costa and in and below cell; claviform with its upper edges defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by whitish, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, a diffused brown medial shade passing between the stigmata; the postmedial line double, with a series of black points beyond it on the veins and with black point on its inner side at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly defined by red- brown on inner side and with an oblique dark bar before it from costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen, the cilia ochreous; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a small dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. pontica. Fore wing reddish or violaceous grey ; hind wing whitish.—Pontus, Turcomania. Ab. 2. consenescens. Fore wing yellowish grey.—Pontus. Hab, Britain, England, Wales, Leech Coll.; Franck; GurMany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Swepen; Russia, Livonia, Sarepta; Armenta; Asts Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, 1 6, Issyk-kul. vp. 40-46 millim. Larva. Meyy. Brit. Lep. p. 104; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 48, pl. 142. f. 1. Dull brown, with a dorsal series of darker-outlined diamond- shaped marks; spiracular line dark, diffused ; spiracles white with dark edges; subspiracular line ochreous white; head pale brown with dark markings. Food-plants: Primula, Urtica, Rumex, etc. 9-5. 693. Agrotis baja. Noctua baja, Fabr. Mant. Ins, ii. p. 175 (1787); Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. iii. pl. 25. f. 119; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 70. Negiva baja, var. punctata, Auriv. Nord. Fjar. p. 115 (1888), Agrotis bajwa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 411. Agrotis smithii, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxix. p. 157 (1896). Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with purple-grey ; palpi black, pale at extremity; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous, greyish ochreous towards base. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to submedian fold, with a black point usually present just beyond it in the cell; a double, waved, antemedial 2D 2 404 NOCTUID%. line; claviform indistinct, its extremity defined by brown scales ; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli and brown outlines, the former large, round, the latter large with some fuscous suffusion in its lower extremity; some darker brown suffusion between the stigmata, a waved medial shade from cell to inner margin, and a dark.striga on costa above the reniform ; the postmedial line double, crenulate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, the outer line with black and grey points on the veins; a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, and with two prominent black points on it below costa. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown; the cilia tinged with rufous; the underside suffused with rufous especially on costal area; a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line sometimes present. Ab. 1. bajula. Ground-colour darker brown, much more suffused with grey. Ab. 2. punctata. Fore wing with series of black points on the lines. Hab. Canava, Renfrew Co., 3 ¢, Vancouver IL. (J. J. Walker), 36; US.A., N. States, 3d, 4 5, Massachusetts, Beverly, 1 9°, New York, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 1 3 ; C. & 8S. Huropz; Britain ; Germany, Berlin, 3 ¢, 19, Frankfort, 1 ¢, 2 9, Silesia, 1 $; Ivaty; Norway, Geiranger, 2 ¢; Russia, Livonia, 1 9, Urals; Armenta; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul; Trev, Amdo; E. Srperra, Amur, 1 9, Kentei; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 192. Hep. 40-44 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 85, pl. 147. f. 1. Grey, brown, or reddish brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, with a series of oblique dark marks between them; spiracular line pale; a pale bar on somite 12; head pale brownish with darker markings. Food-plants: Saliw, Hawthorn, Birch, Primula, ete. 9-5. *694. Agrotis vibora. (Plate LXX. fig. 15.) Agrotis vibora, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xli. p. 28 (1897). ¢. Head and tegule brownish ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides ; thorax deep rufous; abdomen brownish ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright purplish red-brown, the costal area ochreous white to beyond middle, at base extending to just below the cell; some black below base of cell; orbicular and reniform small, fuscous with grey annuli, the cell before and between them and just beyond reniform deep black ; median nervure streaked with white; traces of a pale sinuous sub- terminal line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyvline white, the costal area and termen tinged with brown, the cilia with purplish points towards apex; the underside with the costal area suffused with rufous, a small dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab. Ecvavor, Loja, type f ¢ in Coll. Dognin. Lp. 32 millim. 2’ AGROTIS. 405 695. Agrotis plecta. Noctua plecta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Huibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 117; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Ochroplewra vicaria, Wik. x. 409 (1856). Agrotis wnimacula, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 213; Ramb. Cat. Syst. And. pl. 11. f. 3. Ochropleura costalis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 56. Agrotis anderssoni, Lampa, Tidskr, 1885, p. 54. Agrotis glaucimacula, Gras. Ber). ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 321. Ochropleura ignota, Swinh. P. Z. 8. 1889, p. 411. Head and thorax purple-red, the head and tegule pale; palpi blackish except at extremity; tegule black at base; pectus and legs dark brown, the fore tibize on outer side and first two tarsal joints, the tips of spurs and tibiew of mid and hind legs whitish ; abdomen dorsally whitish, more or less tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface dark purplish red. Fore wing purple red-brown ; the costal area broadly whitish to beyond middle; the base of inner area whitish, and the base of median nervure streaked with white ; orbicular and reniform small, grey, with white annuli, the former. round or elliptical, the cell before and between the stigmata and one to three streaks beyond the reniform black; a more or less indistinct minutely dentate black postmedial line, excurved from below costa to vein 4 and angled inwards in sub- median fold; some pale points on costa towards apex; a subterminal series of small dentate whitish marks angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white; the costal area usually tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of dark strie; cilia yellowish; the underside with dark dis- coidal point and indistinct postmedial and subterminal lines on costal area. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the costal area purple, leaving white streaks on subcostal and median nervures, Ab, 2. unimacula. Fore wing with the orbicular stigma absent. Ab. 3. anderssoni. Hind wing fuscous.—Sweden. Ab. 4. glaucitmacula. Fore wing with the stigmata entirely grey, the ground-colour often purplish fuscous ; the hind wing yellowish, often with more or less developed postmedial line and terminal band.—Amur; Japan. Ab. 5. ignota. Fore wing with the black in cell absent. Hab. Canava, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 6; U.S.A., Eastern States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 2 ¢, 4+ 9, New York, Trenton Falls, 1 2, Texas; Briraiv; France; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Sparx; Corsica; Ivany; Scanprnavia; Russra, Livonia, 1 9 ; Arwenra; Amur, 2 5,2 9; Japan, Hakodate (Pryce), 2 ¢ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 g ; Sixwim, 2 5, 29, type costalis; Cryton (/wirliz), 2 g type ignota; C. Corony (Dr. Snvith), 1 3 type vicaria. Eup, 34 wmillim, Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 95; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 40, pl. 141. f. 2. (Redescribed.) Head 2°5 millim., shining pale brown, reticulate in darker brown, ventral bands straight, broad, confluent centrally ; 406 NOCTUIDAE. line upward from eye broad, not darker than the reticulations. Body brown, finely mottled on a greenish ground; dorsal line white, narrow, developed into a series of white specks on the centres of the segments, often conspicuous. Cervical shield brown, cut by whitish dorsal and subdorsal lines. Subdorsal line narrow, white, defined by obscure brown shades; substigmatal band broad, white, similarly defined, faintly brownish filled, distinct from the darker subventral region. Spiracles black-rimmed. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 696. Agrotis leucogaster. Noctua leucogaster, Frr. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. i. p. 388, pl. 21 (1831); Boisd. Teones, pl. 83. f. 6; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 222, pl. 20. f. 5; Herr.- Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Head and thorax grey, thickly irrorated with red-brown, and with two brown spots between antenne; palpi dark rufous except at tips; tegule whitish tinged with rufous to brown-pink, a black patch at base; fore tibie and tarsi whitish; mid tibie and tarsi blackish ; abdomen white, tinged with purplish red towards ex- tremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing silky purplish brown, the costal area white tinged with purplish pink to beyond middle extending to middle of cell; a black-brown streak in lower part of cell extending to submedian fold from base to origin of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform very small, with fuscous centres and white annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with the black streak extending beyond it as a small triangular spot ending in a short ochreous streak, sometimes with another above it; the postmedial line represented by an oblique series of black points on the veins from vein 4 to inner margin; the subterminal line sometimes represented by slight dark marks, the terminal area rather darker and irrorated with grey, a terminal series of small black spots with grey on their inner sides. Hind wing semihyaline white; the underside with the costal area suffused with purplish pink, a postmedial series of black points on the veins and a terminal series in the interspaces of the costal half. Hab. 8S. Evrops, 8. France, Zeller & Frey Colls., Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Patustine. vp. 36 millim, Larva. Mill. Ann. Soe. Linn. Lyon, xiv. p. 827, pl. 74. ff. 6-8. Head orange, striated with brown; dorsal area dull olive-brown, the dorsal line grey ; stigmatal line white, the stigmata edged with black; the sublateral area yellow; the ventral area blue-grey. Food-plant, Lotus. *697. Agrotis plectina. Agrotis plectina, Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p. 144, pl. vi. f. 28 (1890). @. Head and thorax brownish ochreous; tegule yellow, with dark brown terminal band; abdomen greyish yellow, the ventral surface ochreous; tarsi brown ringed with ochreous. Fore wing brown; the costal area yellowish white to the postmedial line; a AGROTIS. 407 black fascia below base of cell and a yellowish-white fascia above base of inner margin ; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by double black stris: from costa; orbicular and reniform well- developed, white defined by black, the former rounded, confluent with costal area, the cell before and between them and the area just beyond the reniform blackish ; traces of a waved medial shade ; postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by a dark shade on inner side and more prominent patch at costa ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Ecvavor, Collanes am Altar. Hxp.46 millim. This species is unknown to me; type in Berlin Mus., structural characters examined by Prof. Karsch. 698. Agrotis signa. Noctua signum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 65 (1775) ; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 209, pl. 64. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Noctua sigma, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 122. Noctua characterea, Esp. Schmett., Text, p. 471 (1786). Noctua nubila, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 142. f. 3 (1786). Noctua ditrapezium, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 147. ff. 1, 2 (1786), nec Schiff. Noctua umbra, View. Verz. Schmett. p. 67 (1789). Head and tegulx reddish ochreous; palpi blackish except at tips ; tips of tegule and thorax black-brown, the scales often tipped with grey ; abdomen blackish, mixed with brown or grey. Fore wing purplish red, more or less completely suffused with fuscous black, leaving the costal area reddish ochreous to beyond the postmedial line; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold in which there is a short black streak; antemedial line double, oblique, irregularly dentate ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round or somewhat quadrate, the cell before and between them more or less suffused with black; an indistinct oblique waved line from cell to inner margin; the post- medial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line ochreous, punctiform, defined on inner side by dentate black marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of ochreous and black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia greyish at tip ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the costal and terminal area except towards tornus, flesh-colour. Hab. France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Avsrria, Leech Coll.; Swirzertanp, Zeller Coll.; Armenta; W. Stperra, Altai; Amurtanp, Ussuri. Hap. 38-46 millim. Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 193. Pale copper-coloured, with three pale lines on dorsal area with 408 NOCLUID@. yellow transverse lines between, bordered with brown in front and curved forward at sides, and with two white dots before each. Food- plants: low plants, especially Atriplicis. 4-5. 699. Agrotis albipennis. Cosmia albipennis, Butl. Il. Het. B. M. vii. p. 58, pl. 127. f. 13 (1889); Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 186. $. Head and thorax pale purplish pink, the scales tipped with whitish ; palpi dark rufous except at tips; tegule edged with dark brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen pale purplish pink. Fore wing pale purplish pink ; the subbasal line strong, black, oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled, ending at vein l,a dark streak from it in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which is developed into an oblique black bar from costa, then fine, angled inwards in cell, outwards on median nervure, inwards in submedian fold, then very oblique to above middle of inner margin, where it is angled ; claviform finely defined by brown above and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former large, oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter placed on an olive-brown patch from costa; an indistinct curved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line black towards costa, slightly angled inwards below costa, then outwards, then obliquely curved to vein 4, then incurved and sinuous; the subterminal line brown, with an olive-brown patch with pale points on it on its inner side at costa, » angled outwards slightly at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white; a fine dark terminal line; the cilia tinged with pink towards apex: the underside with the costal area tinged with red, a small dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 9°. Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown. Hab. W. Curna, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 3 ; Kasur, Kuijar, 1 ¢, Narkunda, 1 2 (McArthur); Punsas, Dharmsala (Hocking), 496,392. Exp. 40 millim. 700. Agrotis repleta. (Plate LXX. fig. 16.) Agrotis repleta, W1k. xi. 736 (1857). Agrotis ypsilon, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 281 (part). 3. Head and tegule blackish mixed with red-brown; tegule with black medial line; thorax rufous ; mid and hind tibie blackish ringed with ochreons ; abdomen rufous dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with reddish brown; the basal area with fine brown and ochreous streaks below costa and in cell; the subbasal line represented by ochreous striz from costa and cell; the antemedial line double, very highly dentate, acutely angled outwards below costa and very strongly inwards on median nervure and vein 1; claviform small, slightly defined by black; orbicular and reni- form small, defined by black and their centres defined by rufous, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell; a slight medial shade from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, dentate, AGROTIS, : 409 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line ochreous, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks and elongate blackish patch on costal area, with some ochreous points on costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal and inner areas tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area ochreous white irrorated with brown. 2. Fore wing with the area below the cell and postmedial area suffused with purplish fuscous. Hab. Mexico (Sallé), 1 Q type, Jalapa (Trujillo), 23, 1 Q, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Braziz, Amazons, Rio Purus (Trai), 1 3, Organ Mts. (Wagner), 1 g. Hep. 56 millim. 701. Agrotis crinigera. (Plate LXX. fig. 17.) Spelotis crinigera, Butl. A. M. N. WH. (5) vii. p. 321 (1881). Dull reddish brown; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen of male with very large protrusible genital tutts. Fore wing with a greyish tinge and black irroration or suffusion ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; adouble, waved, antemedial line very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform faintly defined by blackish above; orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and defined by black, the former round, a diffused “waved medial line passing between them; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an indistinct greyish sub- terminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish brown; the cilia white at tips; the underside whitish with slight discoidal lunule and waved post- medial line. Hab. Hawai, Honolulu (Blackburn), 3 3, + 2, type, Oahu (Perkins), 1 Q. Exp. 46-58 millim. 702. Agrotis compta. (Plate LXX. fig. 18.) Graphiphora compta, Wk. x. 404 (1856). Teniocampa immunis, Wik. x. 450 (1853). Graphiphora quadrata, W\k. xi. 745 (1857). Cerastis innocua, Wik. xv. 1710 (1858). Apames reciproca, W1k. xxxii. 672 (1865). Orthosia breviuscula, Wik. xxxiii. 716 (1865). Orthosia communicata, W\k. xxxiii. 716 (1865). Agrotis acetina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109. f. 6 (1874). Head and thorax ochreous or reddish brown; palpi deep red- brown, pale at tips; sides of frons black ; legs deep red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing ochreous brown irrorated with red-brown : an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; traces of a dentate antemedial line; claviform represented by a black point; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former very indistinct, round, the latter with pale 410 NOCTUID. annulus and often a black patch in lower extremity ; an oblique sinuous medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a pale subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a rufous patch at costa, then by small spots ; a crenulate terminal line ; cilia rufous, with dark line near tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the under- side pale purplish red irrorated with fuscous, and with curved postmedial line. Hab. New Hesripes, 1 ¢ type innocua, Coll. H.M.S. ‘ Herald’; N.S. Wats, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 2 5, types reciproca and breviuscula, Sydney (Wood), 1 2 type, (Raynor) 138 3, 6 Q; Vicrorta, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 g¢,2 9; Tasmanta (Sinith), 1 2 type quadrata; New Zeatanp (Oxley, Skelton, Colenso), 2 5,1 9, types immunis and communieata, typet d acetina in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 36-38 millim. Larva. Lidgett, Transformations of Australian Lepidoptera, p. 15, Elongate, tapering anteriorly, the anal somite slightly humped ; ochreous ocellated with fulvous; the two anal somites with black subdorsal stripes and the terminal somite with lateral stripe; 3rd to 9th somites dorsally orange shaded with brownish, defined by a narrow black stripe; a broken dorsal line; the rest of larva drab or slaty brown with a rather broad pale lateral stripe. Head small, with an H-shaped yellow mark in front, laterally dilated and ocellated with yellow; ventral surface, legs, and claspers clay-yellow. Length 14 inches. Food-plant, Urtica. Pupa pale red; the wing-covers with fine black lines indicating the veins; segmental incisions defined by bands of deep shining punctures. Cocoon formed of a few leaves of food-plant drawn together by silk and cemented to box. *703. Agrotis herculeana. (Plate LXX. fig. 19.) Noctua herculeana, Schaus, J.N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 107 (1898). 9. Head and tegule red-brown mixed with grey ; thorax purple- brown mixed with grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with purple- brown, the basal and medial areas purple-brown ; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, the outer line stronger ; a double antemedial line commencing as two strong black strige from costa, then oblique to vein 1, where there is a black point before it, then excurved to inner margin; the orbicular purplish fuscous, open V-shaped, the reniform large, cream-colour irrorated with black, the cell before and between the stigmata black ; traces of a waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; a double minutely waved postmedial line with a series of dark points on the veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being AGROTTS. 411 purple-fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous, whitish towards base; the underside whitish, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with purplish red towards costa. Hab. Mexico, Trojes, type fT? in Coll. Schaus. vp. 64 millim. 704. Agrotis rhomboidea. Noctua rhomboidea, Esp. Schmett., Eur. iv. pl. 149. f. 3 (1790) ; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 193, pl. 62. f. 5; Frey. Neue Beitr. Schmett. iv. pl. 309. Noctua stigmatica, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 470, 471 (1827) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Graphiphora tristigma, Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 152 (1829). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; palpi darker at sides except at tips; abdomen ochreous brown tinged with rufous below. Fore wing red-brown, largely suffused with purplish; the subbasal line double, the inner black, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold; the antemedial line double, defined on outer side by black from costa to below cell, slightly angled outwards on subcostal neryure and inwards in submedian fold, then oblique to above inner margin where it is slightly angled ; claviform small, obscurely defined by brown; orbicular and reniform with slight whitish annuli, the former somewhat elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them deep brown; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, very minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line slight, greyish defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and at inner margin ; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing brown, with an ochreous tinge towards base and inner margin : cilia pale at tips ; the underside paler, the costal area tinged with purplish and irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Briratn, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ausrria; Swirzertanp; N. Ivaty; Denmarx ; SweEDEN ; Russra, Livonia. Awp, 38-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 60, pl. 143. f. 2. Reddish brown or deep brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ochreous or greenish, sometimes indistinct, the subdorsal line usually edged above by dark wedge-shaped marks on somites 8-11; the subspiracular line pale ochreous; a pale bar on somite 11; head brown with darker markings. Food-plants: Rumex, Primula, Stellaria, ete. 9-5. 705, Agrotis descripta. Noctua descripta, Brem, Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 51, pl. 4. f. 11 (1864). Agrotis pachnobides, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 246; id. Rom, Mém. vi. p. 406, pl. 6. f.3; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 3. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown; palpi, vertex of head, pectus, and legs purplish red; abdomen grey 412 NOCTUID &. irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish grey, irrorated and in places suffused with red- brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double oblique sightly waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reni- form rather indistinctly defined by brown, the former round, the cell between them dark red-brown ; an oblique diffused sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely waved, defined by purplish grey on outer side, then the ground- colour darker, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous whitish, suffused with fuscous towards costa and termen ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia pale rufous; the underside with the costal area suffused with purplish red, a dark discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. 2. Darker, and with hardly any of the rufous tints. Hab, AmurtanD, Ussuri, 4 ¢,2 9. Hwp. 36-40 millim. 706. Agrotis punicea. Noctua punicea, Hiibn. Sammi. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 115 (1827); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 63. f. 5; Boisd. Icones, pl. 83. f.4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Head and thorax rufous, the tegule edged with grey; abdomen ochreous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface more rufous. Fore wing greyish ochreous irrorated with white especially on the veins, the terminal area suffused with rufous ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold filled in with grey ; a similar oblique antemedial line extending to inner margin; orbicular and veniform defined by rufous, the former round ; a diffused medial red- brown line passing between them, angled outwards on median nervure; the postmedial line double, filled in with grey, bent outward below costa, very slightly incurved at discal fold and rather more strongly below vein 4; the subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia purplish pink; the underside paler, irrorated with fuscous, the costal area suffused with purplish pink, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Beterum ; Germany, Bavaria, Saxony, Zeller Coll.; Ausrria, Leech Coll.; Huneaxy, Zeller Coll. ; Swirzer- LAND, Leech Coll.; Russia, 8. & Centr.; Srserta, Mongolia ; Amurtanp, Ussuri. wp, 36 millim. 707. Agrotis brunnea. Noctua brunnea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 121; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 183, pl. 61. f. 4; Steph. Tl. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 131; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Noctua lucifera, Esp. Schmett. iy. pl. 142. f. 6 & pl. 188. ff. 4, 5 (1786). Noctua arvensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2569 (1788). Noctua fragaria, Bork. Schmett. iv. p. 497 (1792). AGROTIS. 4138 Noctua carnea, Thunb. Diss. iv. p. 55 (1792). : Agrotis hospitalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv- p. 184 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 72. Cerastis subdolens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1881, p. 181 (2). Head and thorax bright rufous, palpi deep rufous except at tips : tibize and tarsi blackish with ochreous rings ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish irrorated with grey, especially on the veins and costal area. the cell between the stigmata and the area between reniform and postmedial line suffused with olive-rufous; the subbasal line double, minutely waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line oblique, double, minutely waved and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a black and grey point at its extremity ; orbicular round, slightly defined by brown or black; reniform with ochreous centre and annulus; the cell between the stigmata with its lower part often suffused with black ; a medial shade angled outwards at lower angle of cell; the post- medial line minutely dentate and produced to black and grey points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it darker, some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line grey, slightly defined by red-brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown; cilia rufous; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas suffused with purplish red, a dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing fuscous grey tinged with olive, and without the rufous and purple tints.—Scandinayia, Sdnd- more. Hab. Brivatn, Leech Coll.; Francz, Sand Coll.; Grrmany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzertann, Frey Coll. ; Scanprvavia,Sondmore, | ¢ ; Russia, Livonia, 1 ¢, Urals ; W. Srperta, Altai; Amurtanp, Ussuri ; Japan (Maries, Pryer), 2 Q type subdolens 9. Hxp. 38-48 millim. Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 65, pl. 143° f. 3. Brown or reddish brown; dorsal line pale or whitish ochreous with dark edges ; a subdorsal series of oblique dark marks; lateral line pale yellowish, sometimes interrupted ; spiracular line sometimes darker ; subspiracular line flesh-coloured ; a pale yellowish bar on somite 11; head pale brown with dark markings. Food-plants: Salix, Rubus, Rumew, ete. 9-4. 708. Agrotis exusta. Graphiphora exusta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 164 (1878); id. Ill. Het. B. M. ii. p. 28, pl. 29. f. 11; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. Agrotis nigromaculata, Graser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1858, p. 520. Head and thorax red-brown, purple-brown, or dark brown mixed with grey or wholly ochreous; palpi deep red or blackish, pale at tips; tibise: and tarsi dark brown, the spurs with pale rings ; abdo- men fuscous brown, the ventral surface tinged with ochreous or 414 NOCTUIDA, purplish. Fore wing purplish, more or less completely suffused with greyish ochreous, olive, or rufous; the subbasal line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and ending in a black point in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, angled outwards on subcostal nervure and above inner margin; the claviform usually represented by black points on outer edge of antemedial line and at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, with ochreous annuli, the former round ; the postmedial line double, oblique from costa to vein 6, then nearly erect and slightly bent inwards to inner margin, the area beyond it darker; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by dark suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia grey at tips; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, Ab. 1. nigromaculata. Fore wing with deep black spots in cell before the orbicular and between the stigmata. Hab. Amcriann, Ussuri, 1 9; Javan, Yokohama (Jonas, Whitely, -ryer), 2 o,4 Q type, Tokio (Maries), 1 $,1 9, Hakodaté,1¢, Myanoshita (Yerbury), 1 g, Hakone (Kastlake), 16; W. Cura, Chang-yang (Pratt), 2 d, 2 9, Kwei-chow, 1 9. Exp. 40-50 millim. *709, Agrotis bolteri. (Plate LXX. fig. 20.) Noctua bolteri, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 104 (1898). @. Red tinged with violet, the markings rusty brown and black ; (head and thorax rubbed). Fore wing with the subbasal line double, black, defined by brown scales, erect from costa to vein 1, then oblique to inner margin, the area beyond it shaded with brown on inner half, and with an erect black mark in cell defined on inner side by yellow scales ; antemedial line double, the inner brown, the outer black with yellow between them, nearly erect from costa to vein 1, strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform large, broad with brown centre and yellow annulus defined by black; orbicular large, elliptical, incomplete above, with yellow annulus defined by black; reniform very large, broad, the centre brown with a white lunule, a yellow annulus defined by black; a brown medial shade; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, lunulate, bent outwards below costa, nearly straight to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line yellow, defined on inner side by a strong dark shade, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black lunules defined by yellow on outer side. Hind wing smoky grey ; cilia nearly white ; the underside pale, a discoidal spot and incom- plete postmedial line, the terminal area irrorated with carmine. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Las Vegas (Bolter). Hep. 33 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. AGROTIS. 415 710. Agrotis neurogramma. (Plate LXX. fig. 21.) Agrotis neurogramma, Meyr, Faun. Hawai. i. p. 149 (1899). 3. Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with black, some white scales on vertex of head and in dorsal crests, the tegulw edged with white; palpi yellowish and black; legs blackish, the tarsi with ochreous rings, the fore legs rufous above; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing rufous, thickly irrorated and in places suffused with black, the veins streaked with ochreous; a double black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold filled in with greyish, with an oblique striga beyond it across cell; a double antemedial line filled in with rufous, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform well-developed, defined by black; orbicular and reniform blackish, with ochreous annuli defined by black, the former rather oblique and elliptical ; a waved oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a double minutely waved postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein +, then incurved; the terminal area suffused with black, with ochreous subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, then curved; cilia ochreous and fuscous. Hind wing yellowish, the veins and termen tinged with fuscous, a dark terminal line except towards tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Hawatt, Kilauea, 1 ¢ type. Hwp. 48 millim. 711. Agrotis rete te Noctua sexstrigata, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 228 (1809). Noctua umbrosa, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. ff. 456, 457 (1827); Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 201, pl. 63. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Head and thorax red-brown; palpi purplish red, pale at tips ; tegule with slight dark medial line; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing pale rufous with darker irreration ; the veins with dark streaks; a fine dark subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; a dark ante- medial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, then somewhat waved ; the claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, a diffused medial shade passing between them, angled outwards at lower angle of cell ; the postmedial line produced to slight points at the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line defined by rufous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, wholly suffused in female; cilia pale yellow, often tinged with pink ; the underside with the costal area suffused with purplish red, a sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Brrratn, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; Francr, Sand Coll.; Hoxtanp, Frey Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ivary ; Scanpinavia, vp. 38 millim, Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 92, pl. 147. f. 3. Pale ochreous or brownish, with dark strize; dorsal line ochreous 416 NOCTUIDE. white, edged with dark brown; subdorsal line ochreous white, edged above by a series of blackish dashes or wedges; spiracular line dark brown; head pale brown with darker markings. Food- plants: Rubus, Rumex, Plantago, ete. 8-5. 712. Agrotis rosaria. (Plate LXX. fig. 22.) Agrotis rosaria, Grote, Bull. Geol, Surv. iv. p. 172 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 73. 3g. Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped with grey; sides of palpi and frons blackish, the former pale at tips; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey, the hair at sides rufous, the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish rufous ; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double obliquely waved antemedial line excurved above inner margin ; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform ochreous, with greyish annuli and black outline, the former round; the cell between the stigmata dark brown diffused to costa; a medial shade from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, very even and only minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with fuscous, especially towards costa and termen ; the cilia ochreous ; the type with the terminal area and cilia tinged with purplish red ; the underside with dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia; U.S.A., California, 1 ¢ type, San Francisco (Stretch), 3 ¢. Exp. 34 millim. *713. Agrotis obuncula. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 1.) Agrotis obuncula, Ping. ined. 3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; palpi black- brown at sides except at extremity; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration; subbasal line represented by a dark striga from costa, with a grey and black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved; claviform small, grey, slightly defined by black at extremity : orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, their centres irrorated with brown, the former round, some black suffusion in lower part of cell before and between them: medial shade very indistinct, oblique, from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, defined by erey on outer side, minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line pale, defined by brownish suffusion on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points ; a pale line at base of cilia; the apex AGROTIS, 417 produced and acute, and the termen slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia pale with a brown line through them; the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. ©. Browner and less red. Hab, EK. Turkestan, mountains north of Khola, typet d @ in Coll. Piingeler. vp. 40 millim. 714. Agrotis calgary. (Plate LXX. fig. 23.) Noctua calgary, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 101 (1898). Head and thorax red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; palpi blackish, pale at tips; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen very slightly angled at vein 3; red-brown with a greyish tinge; the lines double; the subbasal line minutely waved ; the antemedial line minutely waved, strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform with grey- irrorated centres defined by black, the former rounded; a distinct medial shade, the cell between the stigmata sometimes dark or black; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, incurved below vein 4; post- medial area darker, with some pale points on costa; the subterminal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing pale reddish ochreous tinged with fuscous ; a dark postmedial line; a terminal line; cilia purplish red; the underside with dark discoidal spot. Hab. Canana, Calgary (Dod), 3 $,1 92. Exp. 38 millim. *715. Agrotis plebeia. (Plate LXX. fig. 24.) Noctua plebeia, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 105 (1898). Dirty clay-yellow irrorated with blackish ; tegule paler at tips; thorax rather dark. Fore wing with the markings traceable, incomplete ; subbasal line double, black, from costa to vein 1; ante- medial line double, black, interrupted, slightly excurved ; claviform brown defined by black and brown; orbicular and reniform with black centres and pale annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, the latter large ; a diffused medial shade ; postmedial line blackish, double, diffused, very even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein +, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of black spots with some yellowish scales on outer side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of brown luuules, and a yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing ‘fuscous, paler towards base ; cilia pale; the underside with dark irroration, a large discoidal spot and broad postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Livingston, Vancouver; U.S.A, Washington, Oregon, California, Hwp. 35-40 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. VOL. IV. 2 418 ; NOCTUIDE. 716. Agrotis mandarinella. (Plate LXX. fig. 25.) Graphiphora mandarina, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 42 (nee p. 36). Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with grey ; palpi rufous and blackish, pale at tips ; tibie and tarsi blackish, ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous suffused with purplish ; a double black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved below costa and with a point beyond it in cell; a double, waved, antemedial line angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin; claviform small, slightly defined by ochreous and brown ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and ochreous annuli defined by rufous, the former small, round; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4+, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined on inner side towards costa by a dark shade with pale points on it, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown ; the cilia pale purplish red ; the underside pale purplish red, the costal area irrorated with black, a small discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Curna, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 ¢ type, Ni-tou, 1 9; Trev, Yatung (Hobson), 1 3. Hvp. 36 milim. 717. Agrotis jucunda. (Plate LXX. fig. 26.) Graphiphora jucunda, Wik. x. 599 (1856) ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. Agrotis perconflua, Grote, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. xi. p. 304 sid, | Agrotis eriensis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p- 172 (1878). Head ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palpi blackish except at extremities ; thorax rufous ; pectus and legs purplish rufous, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing greyish ochreous, more or less completely suffused with purplish red ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a black point in cell; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line excurved above inner margin; claviform represented by a black point ; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres, greyish annuli, and black outlines, the former rounded, usnally complete, the latter somewhat constricted at middle, the cell before them and between their lower portions usually black ; ; an indistinct double dentate postmedial line, usually forming orey and black points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, eecaed to vein 4, then incurved; a greyish subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, and usually with series of small dentate black marks or points on its inner edge ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, suffused with brown especially towards termen; the underside with discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. perconflua. Fore wing without the black in the cell. Hab. Canana, Anticosti I., 3 ¢, Orilla (Bush), 1 2 type; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, Maine, Orono, 1 ¢, New York, Schenectady (Lintner), 1 Q type perconflua, Evans Centre (Grote), 13,19, type ertensis. Hap. 38-40 millim. AGROTIS. 419° 718. Agrotis rubi. Noctua rubi, View. Tab. Verz. p. 57, pl. 3. f. 5 (1790); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Noctua radica, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 151. f. 4 (1796). Noctua bella, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 605 (1792); Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p- 199, pl. 63. f. 2; Boisd. Icones, pl. 83. f. 5; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 81. - Noctua quadratum, Hibn. Schinett. Eur., Noct. f. 477 (1827). Caradrina posticata, W1k. xv. 1695 (1858). Noctua florida, Schmidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 46; Herr.-Schaff. Neue Schmett. f. 74; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Head and thorax red-brown; palpi dark red-brown, pale at tips ; tibiee and tarsi blackish with pale rings. Fore wing red-brown with a purplish tinge ; a double slightly waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform greyish, with a black point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell between them dark brown; a diffused medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, and produced to slight points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous or pinkish ; the underside ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. florida. Deeper and brighter rufous, the markings of fore wing more prominent. Hab. Brirary, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Ausrrra, Leech Coll., type ¢ posticata, hab. ign. ; Scanprnavra; Russia, Livonia, Urals; Sreerra; W. Tur- KESTAN, Ferghana; Kamscuarka. vp, 30-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 102 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 89, pl. 147. f. 2. Greyish-ochreous, grey, or brown; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale with dark edges; subspiracular line prominently pale ; head brown with dark markings, Food-plants: grasses, Rumew, Taraxacum, etc. 6-7, 9-3. 719. Agrotis xanthographa. Noctua xanthographa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p.83 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii* p. 170; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 138; Dup. Lép. Fr. iii p. 107) pl. 80. f. 2; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 153; Staud. Cat. Lep- pal. p. 140. Noctua tetragona, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 205 (1809). Noctua budensis, Frr. Beitr. Schmett. pl. 232. f. 1 (18389). Agrotis cohesa, Herr.-Schaff. Eur, Schmett. ii. p. 209, Noct. ff. 95-7 1845). pts elutior, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 168; id. Rom. Mém. y. p- 129, pl. 6. f. 3. Agrotis palestinensis, Kalchb. Iris, x. p. 168 (1897). Head, thorax, and fore wing red-brown, sometimes suffused with fuscous, or varying to ochreous or grey irrorated with fuscous ; palpi i 420 NOCTUID®. blackish at sides except at tips; abdomen pale brownish ochreous or fuscous, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing with slight curved subbasal line from costa to submedian foid; the antemedial line rather indistinct, waved, and angled inwards to points on the veins; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by blackish, the latter sometimes filled in with whitish, the former round ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white; the terminal area suffused with fuscous, in female suffused to middle or base; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with brown, a sinuous postmedial line usually present. Ab. 1. Suffused with fuscous.—Scotland, Forres. Ab. 2. elutior. Cinnamon or greyish ochreous. Ab. 3. budensis, Greyish. Ab. 4. palestinensis. Pale grey, with the markings distinct. Hab, Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Huneary (Staudinger); SwItzERLAND ; Sreiry; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenta; Asta Minor; Syria; W. Turxestan, Ferghana. vp. 32-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 101; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 97, pl. 148. f. 1. Pale brownish ochreous, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, dark-edged below, and with a series of black marks above it, nearly obsolete on somites 1—3; spiracular line brown; head ochreous with brown markings. Food- plants: Rwmev, Plantago, ete. 9-5. 720. Agrotis rubifera. (Plate LXX. fig. 27.) Agrotis rubifera, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. pp. 207 227; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 73. Head, thorax, and fore wing varying from dark dull brown to purple-brown and bright chestnut-red; palpi blackish except at extremity ; abdomen fuscous, with the hair at sides and extremity rufous. Fore wing irrorated with black; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a black point in cell; a double waved antemedial line excurved above inner margin; the extremity of claviform usually defined by a black point; the orbicular and reniform tinged with fuscous, with grey annuli and blackish out- lines, the former large, round, the latter constricted at middle and with its lower edge produced inwards on median nervure; the postmedial line double, very even and only minutely dentate, with series of dark points on its outer edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a pale subterminal line with minutely dentate dark inner edge, angled slightly outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing ochreous grey suffused with fuscous, the cilia pale ochreous ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. AGROTIS. 421 Ab. 1. The type is a female with the cell black before and between the stigmata. Hab, Canava (Norman), 1 3g, Renfrew Co., 1 9, New Brunswick, Woodstock, 1 9; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, 2 6,29, type, Wisconsin, 1 ¢. wp. 32-38 millim. 721. Agrotis phyllophora. (Plate LXX. fig. 28.) Agrotis phiyllophora, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 61 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 72. Head and thorax chestnut, on thorax mixed with purplish grey ; palpi pale at tips; tarsi dark brown, with pale rings; abdomen dull brown, with the hair at sides rufous. Fore wing purplish grey largely suffused with chestnut ; a double sinuous subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a double obliquely waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and rufous centres, the former round, complete, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity ; the waved rufous medial shade passing between them; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, and with a series of black and grey points on its outer edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line excurved at vein 7 and middle, and defined by a chestnut shade on its inner edge; a terminal punctiform line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia reddish ; the underside with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canadas, 12; U.S.A., Northern, Middle, and Eastern States, 1 g, 1 9, type, New York, Albany (Bailey), 1 9. Hep. 40- 46 millim. 722. Agrotis nivisparsa. Chersotis nivisparsa, Butl. Il. Het. B. M. vii. p. 54, pl. 127. f. 11 (1889) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 187. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with grey and black ; tarsi black, with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown with an ochreous tinge, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing grey or grey-brown irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasa] black line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; clavi- form moderate, blackish ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, their centres irrorated with fuscous, the former round, the area before and between them and beyond the reniform suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; the subterminal line whitish, defined by obscure dentate fuscous marks on inner side and some fuscous suffusion on outer, minutely waved or punctiform, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia with a pale line at base; the 422 NOCTUID®. underside pale irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Hab. Kasumir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 2 5, 2 2, Rala (McArthur), 1 3; Punsas, Murree (Harford), 1 9, Abbottabad, 1 , Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 2 type. Hap., 3 36, 2 40 millim, 723. Agrotis nebula. (Plate LXX. fig. 29.) Graphiphora nebula, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 43. ©. Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with brown; palpi black- brown except at tips; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing slightly irrorated with black ; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with a point beyond it in cell; a rather indistinct double, obliquely waved, antemedial line; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity; orbicular and reni- form large, defined by brown, the former round, rather incomplete, the latter with fuscous centre and grey annulus; a waved dark medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, slightly defined by brown on inner side, developed into somewhat dentate marks at discal and submedian folds, and into a large patch towards costa with pale points on it; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; cilia greyish at tips ; the underside grey, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Curna, Omei-shan, 1 2 , Ni-tou, 1 9 , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 9, Wa-ssu-kou, 2 9 type. Hap. 40-48 millim. 724. Agrotis flavibrunnea. (Plate LXX. fig. 30.) Graphiphora flavibrunnea, Leech, Trans, Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 40. Head and thorax yellow-brown ; palpi deep red mixed with black, pale at tips; pectus and legs purplish red ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow-brown, tinged with rufous and with dark irroration, the inner and terminal areas more or less tinged with purplish; an indistinct waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct double oblique irregularly waved antemedial line, more strongly angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform small, indistinct, with a black point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform indistinctly detined by blackish, the former round, a curved medial shade passing between them; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by somewhat darker suffusion beyond it, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia rufous; the underside pale reddish, the costal and AGROTIS, 4935 terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Curna, Ti-chien-In (Pratt), 1 2, Chia-kou-ho, 1 ¢ type, Moupin (Kricheldorff), 2 6,29. Exp. 44-48 millim, 725. Agrotis dahli. Noctua dahlii, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. ff. 465, 466 (1827); Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 189, pl. 62. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Agrotis descripta, auct. (nec Brem.), Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 184; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. Graphiphora canescens, Butl. Ill. Het. B. M. u. p. 28, pl. 30. f. 1 (1878). Orthosia erubescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v. p. 224 (1880). Cerastis subdolens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 181 (¢). Chera efflorescens, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. viii. p. 78, pl. 145. f. 7 (1891). Chera erubescens, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. viii. p. 78, pl. 145. f. 14 (1891). 6. Headand thorax red-brown; palpi purplish red, grey at tips ; tibie and tarsi dark brown irrorated with white; abdomen grey- brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow- brown; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, and filled in with purplish; the antemedial line similar, extending to inner margin; the claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with slight greyish annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some greyish at centre ; a waved diffused medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4+, some purplish suffusion beyond it; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it suffused with purplish; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing brownish ochreous, suffused with fuscous brown on terminal half; cilia rufous; under- side pale, the costal area tinged with rufous and the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 9. Head and thorax purple-red irrorated with grey ; fore wing purple-brown, often with the reniform prominently grey; hind wing fuscous brown. Ab. 1. nana. Hardly more than half the size of typical form.—- Danria. Ab. 2. efflorescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing much greyer ; palpi blackish except at tips. Hab. Brrratn, Zeller & Leech Colls.; France, Sand Coll.; Gerr- MANY, Zeller Coll.; Russa, S.E.; W. Srperra, Altai; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul; E. Turxesran, Uli; Tiser, Amdo; KE, Siperta, Zeller Coll., 1 6; Amurtann, 8 ¢, 6 9, Leech Coll., Ussuri; Javan, Tokio (Maries), 2 ¢ type subdolens, Hakodaté (Andrewes), 1 3, Kiushiu, 1 9, Gifu (Pryer), 1 ¢, Yokohama (Pryer),1 3,6 9°, (Jonas) 1 2 type canescens ; Corva, Gensan (/to), 1 9 ; W. Cina, Kiukiang (Pratt), 3 od, 2 2, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 9 , Pu-tsu-fang, 1 g., Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 29 ; Punsan, Thundiani (Yerbury), 2 ¢ , 424 NOCTUID 2. 29, Dharmsiila (Hocking),5 $ ,3 2 ; Ninerris (Swinhoe, Hampson), 25,7 9, types erubescens, Butl., erubescens, Hmpsn., and efflor- escens; Up. Burma, Byingyi (Bingham), 13. Ewp. 32-46 millim. Larva. Meyyr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 66, pl. 144. f. 1. Greenish ochreous to dull green ; dorsal area whitish ochreous to deep brown; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, interrupted, traversing a series of darker diamond-shaped marks; subdorsal line pale, edged above by a series of short black streaks; subspiracular line pale; head pale brown ; thoracic plate dark brown. Food-plants: Rumev, Primula, Plantago, ete. 9-5. 726. Agrotis tarda. (Plate LXX. fig. 31.) Noctua tarda, Leech, P. Z. 8. 1889, p. 495, pl. 50. f. 4. Q@. Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous; palpi blackish, pale at tips; tibie and tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous, the latter irrorated with black. Fore wing fuscous suffused with purplish grey ; a double: black subbasal line from costa to vein 1, its outer edge diffused ; a double oblique waved black antemedial line with black patch before it above vein 1; claviform small, rnfous defined by black; orbicular and reniform pale rufous defined by black and their centres by brown, the former oblique, elliptical, the cell between them black ; a slight medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the sub- terminal line defined by black suffusion before it on costal area, then nearly obsolete, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- curved at middle; a terminal series of slight points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the eilia pale with a brown line near base; the underside pale tinged with purplish, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Javan, Hakodaté (Leech), 1 2 type. Ewvp. 40 millim. 727. Agrotis cinctipennis. (Plate LXX. fig. 32.) Apamea cinctipennis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p. 328 (1881). 2. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some grey; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen ochreous, dorsally suffused with fuscous and with lateral series of black spots. Fore wing purplish red, thickly irrorated and striated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform small defined by black ; orbicular and reniform purplish fuscous defined by black, the former somewhat oblique, elliptical, open above, in one specimen the orbicular and reniform are white, the latter with rufous and fuscous centre; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line AGROTIS. 495 defined by dark suffusion on inner side and the area beyond it ochreous suffused with rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; some pale points on costa towards apex and a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous with a brown line through them ; the underside with the costal area ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. Hab, Hawatt (Blackburn), 19 type, Olaa, 1 2 , Oahu, Mt. Waimea (Perkins), 1 9. Exp. 44 millim. 728. Agrotis selenias. (Plate LXXI. fig. 1.) Agrotis selenias, Meyr. Faun. Hawaiiensis, i. p. 150 (1899). Head and thorax rufous or purplish red, mixed with some black and white seales ; palpi with black patch on 2nd joint, frons with lateral black bar, patagia with black streak above ; tarsi black with ochreous rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface pinkish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish red or purple irrorated with black ; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line, angled outwards below costa; claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, the latter with yellowish- white lunule on its outer edge ; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein +; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale, defined by obscure dentate blackish marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; cilia whitish with a brown line at base; the under- side whitish, the costal area tinged with purplish and irrorated with black, a dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line. Hab, Hawatt, Mt. Waimea (Perkins), 13, 39,type, Kauai, 1¢, 192. Hep. 46-50 millim. 729. Agrotis chersotoides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 2. Apamea chersotoides, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vii. p, 822 (1881). 3. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with black and grey ; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface fulvous; a sublateral series of black points. Fore wing purplish red slightly irrorated with black, the basal, and costal area to postmedial line, with some whitish; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter with some fuscous on its lower part, the cell before and between them suffused with black ; an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 426 NOCLUIDA, margin and black point on costa; the postmedial line minutely dentate, with double black striz at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line represented by a series of ochreous points with small obscure dentate blackish marks before them, the area beyond them darker except at apex, which is pale ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous, with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and waved postmedial line. @. Thorax and fore wing rather browner. Hab. Hawau (Blackburn), 1 3,19, type. Ewp. 34-36 millim. 730. Agrotis coniotis,n.n. (Plate LXXI. fig. 3.) Agrotis chersotoides, Meyr. Faun. Hawaiiensis, i. p. 151 (nee Butl.). Head and thorax blackish, the dorsal crests grey ; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey- brown, irrorated- and striated with fuscous, the costal area to subterminal line, the cell and area just below it to antemedial line suffused with black; a double, waved, subdorsal black line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, black antemedial line; claviform small, obscurely defined by black; orbicular and reniform black, with slight greyish annuli defined by black, the former nearly round ; a slight oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line more or less indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line pale, defined by a dark patch on inner side at costa, a little fuscous at middle and the area beyond it darker except at apex which is pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing pale brownish, the veins, costal and terminal areas darker ; cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with dark strie on the veins. Ab. 1. Head and thorax browner; fore wing without the black suffusion on costal area, the orbicular whitish. Ab. 2. Head and thorax red-brown; fore wing red-brown tinged with fuscous on costal area. Hab, Hawai, Kona (Perkins), 136,19, type, Kauai, Mt. Waimea (Perkins), 3 9. Hep. 36-40 millim, 731. Agrotis rubicilia. Graphiphora rubicilia, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 55; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 185. Graphiphora nigrosigna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 352, pl. 38. f. 4. Head and thorax olive-yellow and rufous to bright rufous; palpi except at tips and hair of pectus purplish red; tibie and tarsi Cc -_— AGROTIS. 427 blackish ; abdomen greyish or ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale rufous suffused with yellow except the terminal area from apex to middle of inner margin, or purplish with some olive suffusion from middle of costa to subterminal line and extending to lower angle of cell; an indistinct waved, double, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform represented by a fuscous point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former round; an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia purplish red; the underside pale reddish, the costal area deeper red, and the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. This may be a variety of A. dahli. Hab. Japan, Hakodate (Leech, Andrewes), 1 3, 1 9, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 9 , Kiushiu, 1 9 , Yokohama (Pryer), 35,39; W. Cura, Chou-pin-sa, 1 ¢, Washan, 19; Kasumir, Narkundah (McArthu;), 192; Punsaz, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 3, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 2, Dharmsila (Hocking), 5 3, 5 93 Srxuim (Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 23,2 9,type. Hep. 32-40 millim. 732. Agrotis basistriga. (Plate LX XI. fig. 4.) Graphiphora basistriga, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 54; Hmpsn. Moths Ind, li. p. 184. Head and thorax purplish grey suffused with deep red-brown or entirely red-brown; palpi deep red-brown, pale at tips; tibize and tarsi blackish irrorated with white; abdomen pale red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing deep rufous and olive-fuscous, more or less completely suffused with purple- grey, some dark suffusion above basal part of vein 1 and on medial part of inner margin; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to vein 1, with a dark point in the cell beyond it; a double, waved, antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform small, defined by brown: orbicular and reniform defined by brown, and with their centres defined by brown ; an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards on median nervure; a double postmedial line, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; a double subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, and with some olive-brown suffusion before it at costa; some pale points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous or fuscous brown; cilia pale purplish red; the underside paler, the costal area suffused with purplish red; a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 428 NOCIUID®. Hab. W. Cutna, Nitou, 1 2 , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 19; DaarmsaLa (Hocking), 13,19; Trser, Yatung (Hobson), 19; Sreune (Lidder- dale), 33,39, type. Hvp. 38-42 millim. 733. Agrotis glottuloides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 5.) Apamea glottuloides, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 120. Head and thorax fuscous black; palpi whitish at tips; antennee whitish ; fore tibize and tarsi whitish ; mid and hind tibie with the spurs ringed with white, the tarsi whitish ; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface grey irrorated with black. Fore wing fuscous black, the inner area mostly grey to near termen, a streak of black and grey scales in basal half of submedian fold; an indistinct waved dark antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform incompletely outlined with white and black scales, the former elliptical, the latter some- times with whitish spot; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, somewhat angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; a subterminal series of slight black and white points. Hind wing nacreous white, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous; a fuscous line at base of cilia ; the under- side whiter, the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab, Curtt (Edmonds), 13,1 2,type. Hap. 40 millim. *734. Agrotis cynica. (Plate LXXI. fig. 6.) Noctua cynica, Smith, J. N. York Ent. Soe. vi. p. 101 (1898). Head and thorax red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; palpi black, grey at tips; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface reddish. Fore wing broad, reddish brown tinged with grey; the lines double; the subbasal line minutely waved; the antemedial line minutely waved, angled outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli slightly defined by fuscous, the former elliptical, oblique; no medial line ; postmedial line minutely waved, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the costa dark with pale points beyond it ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by a dark patch on costal area, then by small spots, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle: a terminal series of dark points; cilia ochreous with fuscous tips. Hind wing pale ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous brown; a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line; cilia ochreous ; the underside paler with the markings more distinct. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Albany. ELwvp.36millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. AGROTIS. 499 735. Agrotis flavirena. Graphiphora flavirena, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 352, pl. 38. f. 3. Graphiphora vulpina, Mocre, Lep. Atk. p. 118 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 185. 2. Head and tegule red-brown, the latter with dark patches irrorated with white; thorax purple-brown, the scales tipped with white; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing red- brown, with slight white irroration at base, below costa, and on the veins ; subbasal line obsolete ; antemedial line indistinct, waved ; claviform represented by a dark point at its extremity; orbicular indistinctly defined by brown, round; reniform ochreous whitish defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; traces of some subterminal points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia pale purplish; the underside pale, the costal area and termen tinged with pink ; a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Stxum (Russell), 1 2 type vulpmma. Exp. 46 millim. 736. Agrotis tincta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 7.) Graphiphora tincta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1900, p. 41. @. Head and thorax purple-brown; palpi deep red-brown, pale at tips; frons and shoulders suffused with grey; tibiz and tarsi fuscous, the spurs with pale rings; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey, except the end of cell and area from it to costa at subterminal line; faint traces of a subbasal line; an indistinct double antemedial line filled in with grey, angled outwards below costa, on median nervure and on vein | and inwards in cell and submedian fold; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by rufous; orbicular and reniform irrorated with grey and with grey annuli slightly defined by blackish, the former rounded, its lower extremity produced to a point, sometimes connected with reniform ; the postmedial line very indistinct, double, even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, bent outwards to inner margin; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by rufous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; traces of a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia purplish red; the underside pale purplish red, the costal area irrorated with fuscous brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, W. Cuina, Omei-shan, 1 9 type; Punsas, Simla, 7000 feet (Pilcher), 19. Hap. 36-40 millim. 737. Agrotis griseivena. (Plate LXXI. fig. 8.) Agrotis griseivend, Hmpsn. Moths ind. ii, p. 187 (1894). Head and thorax reddish brown, more or less strongly mixed with white or grey; tegule with white or grey medial line and 430 NOOTUIDE. tips; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, Fore wing pale olive- brown, the veins blue-grey ; the subbasal line represented by double oblique black striz from costa and median nervure filled in with grey ; a double, waved, antemedial line filled in with grey, angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin; claviform large, defined by grey then black; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli defined by black, the former round or elliptical, the cell before and between them and the area just beyond the reniform more or less suffused with black; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein +; the subterminal line grey, defined by dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved ati middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous, especially on terminal half and in female ; cilia pale brown at base, whitish at tips; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a Sinuous postmedial line and slight discoidal striga. Hab. Kasumrr, Barra Larcha (McArthur), 1 3, 12; Punsan, Dalhousie (Harford), 1 2 type. Hp. 38 millim. 738. Agrotis cerastioides. (Plate LXXI. fig. 9.) Graphiphora cerastioides, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 54; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 185. Apamea nubila, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 346, pl. 38. f. 10. Head and thorax purplish red-brown, often tinged with grey ; palpi pale at tips; tibiz and tarsi fuscous, the spurs with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey, the costal edge rufous; an indistinct double subbasal line, angled out- wards below costa; a double antemedial line, angled inwards in submedian fold and very strongly outwards above inner margin ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by brown; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter often with ochreous centre; the postmedial line double, even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia rufous, with fine pale line at base. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia purplish red with fine pale line at base; the underside purplish red, with small dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Punsas, Simla (Harford), 1 $, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 3; Sixuim,2g,19, type. Hp. 32-38 millim. 739. Agrotis esurialis. (Plate LXXL. fig. 10.) Agrotis esurialis, Grote, Can. Ent, xiii. p. 131 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 72. $. Head and thorax pale brown-pink; palpi black at sides, AGROTIS. 431 whitish at extremity; sides of frons black ; abdomen pale brown, the hair at sides and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale suffused with brown-pink ; a dark waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a black point in cell; the antemedial line irre- cularly waved, oblique; the extremity of claviform defined by some black scales ; orbicular and reniform brown-pink, with pale annuli and black outline, the former somewhat quadrate, oblique, open above, the latter constricted at middle and with its lower edge angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between the stigmata black-brown; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, highly dentate, and with series of points on the veins; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7, with some black suffusion on its inner edge at costa and black points at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale pinkish slightly suffused with fuscous; a fine terminal dark line; the underside with discoidal point and indis- . tinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 ¢ type. Hap. 36 millim. Larva. (Original.) Head 2°5 millim., pale brown on the sides, reticulate with black, the vertical bands rather straight and all the space between them filled in with black; band from eye diffused ; a patch behind eye. Body brown, scarcely mottled, somewhat thin-skinned. Dorsal space broadly pale, dusky shaded centrally, sharply limited by the black longitudinal subdorsal dashes; a dark shade above the position of the obsolete substigmatal band. Cervical shield a little darker than the body, cut by the narrow, faint, white dorsal line and pale-blotched subdorsally ; spiracles black. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D. 740. Agrotis trigonica. Agrotis trigonica, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 43, pl. 1. £.359 (1872) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. Agrotis capnoptera, Ping. Soe. Ent. xiii. p. 58 (1898). gd. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi black- brown except at extremity; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with pink. Fore wing pale red-brown suffused with grey, less prominently on medial area; a slight curved rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line oblique, brown, slightly angled outwards on sub- costal nervure and prominently above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform concolorous defined by olive-brown, the former very open, V-shaped, the cell before and between the stigmata and below the orbicular deep olive-brown ; postmedial line double, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved below vein 4, the veins beyond it with slight dark streaks; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine pale terminal line. Hind wing white, irrorated with purplish brown towards termen, the inner margin and cilia 452 NOCTUIDA, tinged with pink ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with purplish brown and with traces of a postmedial line. . Hab. W. Turxestan, Issyk-kul, 1 ¢ ; E. Turxesran, Ili. Eup. 40 millim. 741. Agrotis eugramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 11.) 2. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales and hair tipped with grey ; abdomen ochreous brown mixed with grey. Fore wing yellowish brown tinged with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line erect, double, slightly waved, the outer strong and somewhat diffused ; claviform small, defined by black; orbicular round, defined by black ; reniform blackish and with black outline and shade from it to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, double, the outer line faint, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line pale, interrupted, with irregular series of dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale tinged with brown; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside with diffused curved postmedial line showing through to upperside. The spines on fore tibie very stout at extremity and on outer side. Hab. W. Cuina, Ta-chien-lu, 1 ¢ type, Leech Coll. up. 38 millim. 742. Agrotis cervina. Mythimna cervina, Moore, P. Z, 8. 1867, p. 47, pl. 6.f. 18; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 186. 3. Head and thorax purplish grey; palpi bright rufous except at tips; tegule slightly edged with rufous and with a few rufous scales ; pectus with the hair rufous; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface purplish pink. Fore wing purple-grey rather sparsely irrorated with rufous; the costal half of medial area rufous, shading off to irroration on inner half; the subbasal line rufous, rather ill-defined, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, excurved from costa to median neryure, then ineurved and bent outwards to inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former oblique, eiliptical, with its centre slightly defined by rufous, the latter with fuscous centre; the postmedial line double, straight from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line rufous, somewhat punctiform, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of rufous points; cilia rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; the cilia pinkish; the underside paler and tinged with purplish pink, a slight sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Stxuim (fussell), 1 3 type. Hvp. 46 millim. AGROTIS, 433 743. Agrotis fennica. Agrotis fennica, Tausch. Mém. Mose. i. p. 177, pl. 13. f. 4 (1811) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. Hadena intracta, W1k. xi. 584 (1857). Head and thorax black-brown mixed with reddish brown and grey ; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing long and narrow, purplish fuscous, suffused in parts with black and irrorated with a few grey scales; the inner area beyond the ante- medial line often ochreous tinged with rufous; the subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, excurved from costa to median neryure, incurved to vein 1, then excurved ; claviform elongate, outlined in black; orbicular and reniform whitish, outlined in black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter with fuscous patches in its upper and lower extremities ; an indistinct waved medial line ; the postmedial line double, dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a waved subterminal line, angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of small dentate black marks on its inner edge, those above veins 4, 5 developed into streaks; some pale points on costa towards apex and a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white tinged with brown; the veins brown; the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white. Hab, Arctic America (Richardson), 1 9, type intracta; ALASKA, Kodiak I., 1 ¢; Canapa, Hudson’s Bay, St. Martin’s Falls (Barnston), 25, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 §; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Lewis Co., 2 ¢,2 9; Brrrarn (once); Swirzertanp; Rvssra, St. Petersburg, 1 9; Srperta, Irkutsch, 2 ¢,1 9; E. Turxesran, Thian Shan; Amurtanp, Kentei, Ussuri. Hep. 38-44 millim, Larva. Can. Ent. xvi. p- 204 (1884). (Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown on the sides, broadly shaded with black over the face, the edges of this marking diffused ; no distinct reticulations. Body black, very heavily black-mottled on a brown ground, the feet pale. Dorsal line obsolete; subdorsal indicated by three rows of white crinkled dots, of which the lower is more distant and distinct, the upper two smaller and confused ; substigmatal band waved, composed of two parallel distinct white lines, broken into dots by the folds. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 744. Agrotis velata. Agrotis velata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 247; id. Rom. Mém. vi. pl. 6. f. 4; id. Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 2. Head and thorax dark brown; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown, the costal area to postmedial line, the inner and terminal areas suffused with grey ; the antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, obliquely excurved ; orbicular and reniform small with brown centres and grey annuli, the former round, the cell before and between them suffused with black ; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, VOL. IV. 2F 434 NOCTUID ©. excurved to vein 4, then oblique and slightly angled outwards at vein 1; the subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being greyer, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; the underside with indistinct diffused postmedial band. Hab. Amortann, Ussuri, 1 2. Hap. 36 millim, 745. Agrotis oblata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 12.) Agrotis oblata, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 116 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 73. Agrotis hilliana, Hary. Can. Ent. x. p. 55 (1878). 2. Head and thorax clothed with ochreous, bright rufous, and a few whitish scales; palpi with some white scales at sides, pale at tips ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing clothed with grey, fuscous, ochreous, and bright rufous scales, the basal and postmedial areas greyest, the medial and terminal most rufous ; a black streak below basal half of cell; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a double antemedial line, its outer part prominently black, excurved above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with pale centres, rufous annuli, and very prominent black outlines, the former large, oblique, elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, the obscure waved medial shade passing between them; the postmedial line dentate, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by dark suffusion on inner side and the area beyond it rufous. Hind wing pale ochreous with dark discoidal point, indistinct dentate postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line. Hab, Canava, Anticosti I.; U.S.A., New York, Lewis Co. (Hills), 1g, type hilliana, Nevada, California, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 40 millim. 746. Agrotis flavotincta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 13.) Noctua flavotincta, Smith, Ent. News, iii. p. 252 (1892); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 45, pl. 1. f. 2. Head and tegule ochreous largely mixed with rufous; palpi black at sides except at tips; sides of frons, vertex of head, and neck with small black spots; thorax ochreous slightly irrorated with brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing pale purplish brown, the costal area pale to the post- medial line; the subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell; a black streak in base of submedian fold ; the ante- medial line black, defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly ex- curved in and below cell; claviform rather elongate, almost filled in with black; orbicular and reniform brownish, with pale annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elongate or elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, the cell before and between them black, a black streak from reniform to postmedial line, which is AGROTIS. 435 black defined by ochreous on outer side, minutely dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line ochreous with black suffusion on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal black line with series of points on it. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown; the cilia yellow ; the underside yellowish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown and with traces of postmedial and sub- terminal lines. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 9. Exp. 38 millim. 747. Agyrotis collina. Noctua collina, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 105 (1840); Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Eur., Noet. f. 142; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. Noctua montana, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. vi. pl. 569. f. 3 (1852), & vii. pl. 698. Agretis kenteana, Staud. Iris, v. p. 353 (1892). Head and thorax red-brown suffused with purple; palpi with some black at sides; tips of tegule and thoracic crests sometimes blackish; tarsi black with ochreous rings; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing purplish red, the veins irrorated with grey and fuscous; the subbasal line black, defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards below costa and with short black streak below its extremity in submedian fold ; the antemedial line blackish and grey, waved and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; claviform smali, obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former large, rounded, the cell before and between them suffused with black; the postmedial line dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; traces of a subterminal line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of pale points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous at tips; the underside pale irrorated with fuscous, the costal area tinged with red, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. centeana. Browner; fore wing with the markings less prominent.—S8.K. Siberia and Amurland. Hab, Alps of S. France & Swtrzertanp ; Germany, Silesia, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Gaticta; Bucovina; Rumeria; Swepen; Russia, Livonia ; W. Torxesran, Issyk-kul ; Tiser, Kuku-noor; S8.E. Srperrs, Amurland, Kentei, 1 ¢. “vp. 32-36 millim. Larva. Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 203 (1884). Purplish grey ; dorsal line pale defined by black; a subdorsal series of black points; lateral line yellowish defined by a series of dentate black marks above ; a yellowish bar on 11th somite ; stig- mata white with black annuli; head red-brown. J ood-plants : Plantago lanceolata, Rumex hydrolapathum, and Taraxacum. 2 2 436 NOCTUIDE. 748. Agrotis melancholica. (Plate LXXI. fig. 14.) Agrotis melancholica, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 367, pl. 4. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. @. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi pale at tips, tegule ochreous at base; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing purplish fuscous with a greyish tinge ; the subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold, defined by grey on outer side and with a black spot beyond its lower extremity ; the antemedial line defined by greyish on each side, oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, where it is obtusely angled and strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform diffused, blackish ; orbicular and reniform with slight ochreous annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter constricted at middle, the cell before and between them and some streaks from reniform to postmedial line black-brown; an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by grey on outer side and with a fine evenly curved line just bey ond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by fuscous suf- fusion and fine black streaks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, and angled inwards in submedian fold ; some pale points on costa towards apex; a fine waved terminal line; cilia ochreous and fuscous. Hind wing pale silky yellow, a slight curved postmedial line, with the area beyond it tinged with peeonee the underside with the line more distinct, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous. Hab. W. Stserta, Altai, 1 9, Zeller Coll. ; T1sur, Kuku-noor, Amdo; Amurtanp, Ussuri. Hep. 36 millim. 749. Agrotis sareptana. Agrotis sareptana, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 359, Noct. f. 546 (1845); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Q. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey, the tips of patagia and thoracic crests grey ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with purplish, the terminal area fuscous grey; a subbasal patch below the cell formed of black scales; the antemedial line indis- tinct, sinuous; claviform grey, with some black scales at its origin on outer edge of antemedial line and at its extremity; orbicular and reniform with slender white annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them black ; an indistinct oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, defined by the area beyond it being darker; some pale points on costa towards apex; the sub- terminal line fine, grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, especially AGROTIS. 437 towards termen; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish, irrorated with fuscous and suffused on terminal area, a dark discoidal spot. Hab. S. Russta, Sarepta (Christoph), 1 9; Asta Minor, Pontus. Exp. 40 millim, *750. Agrotis trisignata. Agrotis trisiynata, Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p. 148, pl. vi. f. 21 (1890). 3. Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the lines indistinct ; a wedge-shaped black patch below base of cally the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata, the orbicular small, elliptical, open above, the reniform indistinctly defined except on inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale grey, the veins dark, the costal and terminal areas tinged with fuscous. Hab. Kevavor, Antisana. Hep. 34 millim. This species is unknown to me, type in Berlin Mus.; structural characters ex- amined by Prof. Karsch. 751. Agrotis bonsa. (Plate LX-XI. fig. 15.) Agrotis bonza, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 290, pl. 8. f. 18 (1900); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 3. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and ochreous; palpi blackish at sides, whitish at tips; tegulee with a purplish tinge, black at base; tarsi with ochreous rings ; abdomen brownish grey, ochreous at extremity, the ventral pariace fuscous. Fore wing pale brown tinged with grey, the costal area suffused with purplish red; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold, where there is a black streak from its extremity to the double, oblique, waved antemedial line, which has black points on its outer side at costa and submedian fold; clavyiform narrow, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with slight greyish aunuli defined by black, the former elliptical, oblique, the latter narrow, the cell black before and between the stigmata ; an indis- tinet, medial line angled outwards in cell and on vein 1 ; postmedial line double, rather indistinct except at costa, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line ochreous, defined by a dark shade on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with fuscous, especially on costal and terminal areas towards apex; cilia ochreous: the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and terminal dark line. Hab. W. Turxesray, Alexander Mts., 1 ¢; Tiser, Amdo. Lup. 38 millim, 438 NOCTUID®. 752. Agrotis poliogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXI. fig. 16.) Q. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey and pale brown ; tegule with black medial line and black at tips; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen ochreous mixed with dark brown. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey, thickly on basal and terminal areas; the veins streaked with grey; the subbasal line represented by black strive from costa and median nervure, defined by grey on outer side and with black patch beyond it below the cell ; the antemedial line angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1, then strongly angled outwards above inner margin, defined by grey on inner side; claviform defined by black, acute at extremity, and with an oblique ochreous-white fascia from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli defined by black, their centres irrorated with grey, the former oblique, open above, the latter angled inwards on median nervure; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, very slightly angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 43; the subterminal line grey, defined by a series of dentate black marks on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, with fine dark terminal line; the cilia whitish, with brown line at base; the underside grey thickly irrorated with dark brown, a sinuous post- medial line. Hab. Kasur, Barra Larcha (McArthur), 1 2 type, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 2. Hvp. 36 millim. 753. Agrotis albifurca. Agrotis albifurca, Ersch. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 337 (1877); Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 44, pl. 2. f. 43; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Agrotis costata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 420. Q. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing grey suffused with purplish fuscous and black ; the costal area grey to the postmedial line; the median nervure and nervules defined by ochreous streaks to the subterminal line; vein 1 whitish towards base, then black on an ochreous fascia arising from inner margin near base; the subbasal line double, black, filled in with grey from costa to submedian fold ; the ante- medial line placed on an ochreous band and with some rufous before it below costa, angled outwards at subcostal nervure, then oblique and obsolete below vein 1; claviform very large, defined by black ; orbicular oblique elliptical, ochreous defined by black ; reniform with its upper part ochreous, its lower part blackish and dilated, defined by black, and with its centre defined by blackish ; the post- medial line blackish, defined by ochreous on outer side, obliquely bent outwards from below costa to vein 6, oblique below vein 4, an ochreous patch on costal area between it and the subterminal line, which is ochreous, with a prominent series of dentate black marks on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and AGROTIS, 439 excuryed at middle, interrupted at the veins; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, especially towards termen; cilia ochreous white; underside ochreous, the veins striated with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and postmedial line on costal area only. Hab. W. Steerta, Altai; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, Tarbagatai Mts. ; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts., Korla; Moneorra, Iliassatai Mts., Urga; Tiper, Kuku-noor; E. Siberia, Kentei, 1 2. Exp. 38 millim. 754. Agrotis agalma. (Plate LXXI. fig. 17.) Agrotis agalma, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 289, pl. 8. f. 7 (1900) ; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey; palpi at tips and vertex of head grey-white ; tegule at base greenish white ; abdomen brownish grey, darker below. Fore wing blue-grey; the cell and area beyond and below it from subbasal to postmedial line brown, leaving the median nervure and nervules grey defined by red; the subbasal line prominent, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, filled in with grey, the outer line prominent, acutely angled outwards below costa, then with an oblique inward curve to vein 1, where it is obtusely angled ; stigmata with rufous centres and grey annuli defined by black, claviform large, orbicular oblique, elliptical, open above, reniform more or less angled inwards on median neryure; the postmedial line minutely waved, defined by grey on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the postmedial area tinged with pale rufous; the subterminal line pale, with a prominent series of more or less developed dentate black marks before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown with a grey tinge; cilia grey, with a brown line at base; the underside paler, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Tiser, Kuku-noor, Amdo, Sinin Mts.,1 ¢,19. vp. 40 millim. 755. Agrotis substrigata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 18.) Noctua substrigata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 382, pl. xv. f. + (1895). 3. Head and tegule rufous ; palpi pale at tips, neck with black patch above, tegule white at tips; thorax brown mixed with black ; abdomen ochreous brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdo- men blackish mixed with grey. Fore wing fuscous black; a whitish and black subbasal line from costa to median nervure and a black patch below cell; an antemedial blackish line defined on each side by whitish, angled outwards below costa, then incurved, obsolete towards inner margin; claviform large, its extremity and lower edge defined by black, an ochreous-white fascia from antemedial to postmedial line on vein 1, beyond the claviform expanding to vein 2 440 NOCTUIDE. and at postmedial line to vein 3; orbicular and reniform fuscous black, with slight brownish annuli defined by black, the former elliptical, open above, the latter angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them black; postmedial line pale ochreous, defined on each side by black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being brownish, excurved at vein 7 and middle; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing ochreous, tinged with fuscous brown especially towards termen; cilia white; underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line and terminal fuscous band. Hab. Canapa, Calgary (Wolley-Dod), 3 6, 39. Exp. 36 millim. 756. Agrotis celebs. (Plate LXXI. fig. 19.) Agrotis celebs, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 360, pl. 6. f. 4 (1900). Agrotis juvenis, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141 (1901). 3. Head and thorax clothed with black, brown, and grey scales ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey, ventrally blackish. Fore wing grey, suffused with black, leaving grey streaks on the veins to the postmedial line; subbasal line defined by grey on outer side, waved from costa to submedian fold where there is a black patch beyond its extremity ; antemedial line indistinctly double, waved and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform an indistinct elongate pale streak obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reni- form small, with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them blackish ; postmedial line minutely waved, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, with obscure dentate blackish marks before it ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. Asta Minor, Taurus, Zeitun, 1 g; ? Persia. Lap. 30 raillim, 757. Agrotis limenia. Agrotis limenia, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 514; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 482, pl. 154. f. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous brown, red-brown, or purplish brown ; palpi with fuscous patches at sides ; abdomen red- brown, dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with comma- shaped grey-edged deep black spot below base of cell, its tail towards base; the subbasal line represented by a slight striga on costa ; the antemedial lise much nearer base than usual, very indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then bent inwards ; the orbicular represented by a dark or dark-edged white point; reniform whitish, its centre AGROTIS. A441 and circumference defined by fuscous; the postmedial line more towards termen than usual, curved, dentate, rather indistinct; the subterminal line pale, defined by brownish on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points usually present ; cilia ochreous with fuscous line through them. Hind wing dark brown, the interspaces of discal area whitish and semihyaline ; cilia brown at base, whitish at tips; the under- © side pale, the costal and terminal areas brownish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Mextco, Jalapa (Triillo), 2 6, 1 9; Guaremata (Rodri- guez), 2 3, 1 9 type Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 56-58 millim. b?, Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front. a®, Abdomen of female with pair of sublateral foveas near extremity. a‘, Fore wing with the orbicular stigma more or less elongate, elliptical ..... sdotasabonssoccssccoscue unicolor. b*, Fore wing with the orbicular stigma round...... suecicd. 758. Agrotis unicolor. Mamestra unicolor, Wik. ix. 283 (1856). Noctwa ciandestina, Harris, Inj. Ins. p. 448 (1862); Riley, Ist Rep. Ins. Mo. p. 79, pl. 1. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 75; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Mamestra nigriceps, Wik. xxxii. 659 (1865). Head and tegule black-brown; thorax grey-brown, the scales tipped with grey; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 77.—Agrotis unicolor, 9. }. grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with grey and fuscous; a fine black streak often present in basal half of submedian fold; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold - the antemedial line double, acutely angled outwards below costa, in cell, in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1; claviform sometimes indicated by a few black scales ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small to large, elongate, the latter open above and below, the stigmata often connected by a black streak in discal fold ; 449 NOCTUID&. the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; traces of a pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown especially on veins and terminal area; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a brown discoidal spot. The female has large paired sublateral foveal depressions with a few long spatulate scales in them on the penultimate abdominal segment. Hab, Greentanp, 1 9; Canapa (Norman), 1 9, Manitoba (Russell), 1 §, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 6,29; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States, Massachusetts, Beverly, 1 ¢, 2 2, New York, Trenton Falls,5 $,5 9, type; Kamscuarka. Hep. 38-48 millim. Larva. Saunders, Fruit-Insects, p. 108, ff. 106, 107. (Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, reticulate, curved vertical band broad, black, the one upward from the eye distinct, brown. Body brown, thickly mottled on a cream-coloured ground ; cervical shield a shade darker with dorsal and subdorsal whitish lines; dorsal line narrow, whitish, obscure; subdorsal oblique shades forming distinct oblique brown patches on joints 5 to 12, all large, whitish-edged behind, the pair on joint 12 narrowly joined, resting on the whitish subdorsal line ; lateral oblique shades upward and forward from the spiracles, small, diffuse; substigmatal band obseure, a little more reddish than the ground-colour, defined by its whitish edges ; spiracles black-rimmed. A general feeder.-—H. G. D. *759, Agrotis suecica. (Plate LX XI. fig. 20.) Agrotis suecica, Auriy. Nord. Fjar. p. 121, f. 24 (1890); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Head and thorax reddish brown with a purple gloss and irrorated with black; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated and suffused with fuscous and with a purplish gloss; the subbasal line represented by double black striz from costa; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa, in cell, in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform small, slightly defined by black, the former rather elliptical ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line obsolete. Hind wing whitish, almost uniformly suffused with brown ; the cilia white with a brown line at base ; the underside whitish, the costal area strongly and the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line on costal area. The male has the claspers long and exserted ; the female has paired sublateral, almost naked foveal depressions on penultimate segment of abdomen. Hab. Swepen, type t ¢ @ in Mus. Stockholm. vp. 38 millim, AGROTIS. 443 b°, (Agrotis). Abdomen of female without foveas. a4, 'Tegule black at base, grey at tips. a’. Vertex of head whitish, a°. Fore wing with the lines distinctly defined by grey. a. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then incurved ...... deplana, 27, Fore wing with theantemedial line sinuous. maltangula. b°, Fore wing with the lines obsolescent. GAG Jake vaauate? yall) cocccposgoappoonoco6aboo deaonoe capnistis. 67, Hind wing suffused with fuscous .......... . Juncta. }°. Vertex of head purphish-grey. a®, Fore wing with the subterminal line distinct. rectangula, 26, Fore wing with the subterminal line almost GOTO: snaaocdosasnodonnogasosso9gsonbasdscuonden0ac patefacta. b'. Tegulz concolorous. a. Frons black. a®, Fore wing red-brown, the subterminal line (lee EAN, Gageonncdennpcer caecceeacccc CBee Baas atrifrons. b°, Fore wing grey tinged with rufous, the sub- terminal line obsolete ...... Beste seecce) PUSClpellis, &°, Frons concolorous. a®, Fore wing broad, the apex rectangular. a’. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with TRBEIGOMLICL, SubepeonopespoonodeS Bo aed Saacone aneGat cinercicollis. b7, Hind wing with the basal area whitish, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ...... melanura. c7, Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous. subporphyria. b°, Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded. a’, Hind wing white, the termen tinged with fuscous. a’. Fore wing white irrorated with black ... tepperi. b°. Fore wing ochreous more or less suffused with reddish brown. a’, Fore wing with highly dentate ante- medial line emitting teeth to base. a'°, Fore wing with black fascia in cell between the stigmata. al, Fore wing with black streak below SEIS Gi Gell «on sonosocasancdonogca6000¢ annularis. i", Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a'*, Fore wing with the antemedial line dentate towards costa ...... dispulata. b'*. Fore wing with the antemedial line waved towards costa ......... Siced. b'°, Fore wing without black fascia in cell between the stigmata............ putris. }°. Fore wing without highly dentate ante- medial line emitting teeth to base. a’, Fore wing with black fascia in cell between the stigmata, a, Fore wing with black streak below baseOle Colliers. crescent scsececs coniorta. 6, Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a", Fore wing with the black streak beyond reniform extending to terinente moose tect ccmetctecer ents effracta, b’*, Fore wing with the black streak beyond reniform not extending beyond subterminal line ......... talda, 444 NOCTUIDA, }'°, Fore wing without black fascia in cell between the stigmata ............ cinclithorax. 7, Hind wing white at base, the terminal half suffused with fuscous. a’, Fore wing with the claviform stigma PLGSeNb? Cee iaaces neceseseosceeeececeeseeteteeee catenifera. b°. Fore wing with the claviform stigma , ubsent or almost so. . Fore wing with more or less developed black streak below base of cell ......... ravida, b". Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. Fore wing witb the orbicular entire. cnopinata. p10, Fore wing with the orbicular open qo: above. a'', Fore wing with the orbicular large, round, a’, Fore wing fuscous brown ......... sierra. 6‘, Fore wing pale grey-brown......... aucta. bo‘, Fore wing with the orbicular small, oblique ‘elliptical soit vdaneeserersstee squalida. . Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous. oe Fore wing broader. a. Fore wing greyish fuscous brown...... unimacula, b°. Fore wing more yellowish brown. a’, Fore wing broad; cilia with pale jokepaanss) Ai) B12) soc coec~ caasopungcoooceso6C augur. }*°. Fore wing narrow; cilia with pale limevatibasetires casas scccceesmtssecessace sihirica. 9 =9 - C7. Hore win stred=brownl is. .c.c-scleseseeoe ees julapa. v8, Kore wing narrower. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular defined by black. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled inwards at submedian fold, havile. Fore: wing with the postmedial line incurved at submedian fold. Fore wing without black in cell between the stigmata ...........-... lucens. v1, Fore wing with black in cell between the stigmata. a'*, Hind wing dark fuscous brown... senna. b\°, Hind wing pale fuscous grey...... deplorata. b°- Fore wing with the orbicular obsolete. clemens. a’, b}9, 760. Agrotis deplana. Noctua deplana, Fry. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. v. pl. 448. f. 3 (1831); Herr.- Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 79. Agrotis deplanata, Ey, Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 185 (1844); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Agrotis wutumnalis, Oberth. Et. Ent. y. p. 74, pl. 7. f. 10 (1880). Head and thorax brownish grey ; palpi blackish at sides ; base of tegule black; abdomen pale prow iich Fore wing grey irrorated with brown; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with a slighter line beyond it; the antemedial line double, angled outwards below costa and strongly above inner margin, incurved between those points, the claviform large, defined by grey, with a small black spot at its base; orbicular and reniform grey, AGROTIS. 445 defined by the cell before and between them being black ; an indis- tinct waved oblique line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, very minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- terminal line grey, defined by fuscous suffusion on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing grey tinged with ochreous, the terminal area with fuscous ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area thickly, the terminal area slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of a curved postmedial line, more prominent towards costa. Hab. Russia, Urals; W. Srserta, Dahuria, 1¢,19, Altai, 39; Tiser, Kuku-noor, Amdo; Amurtand, 1 ¢, 1 2, Ussuri. Lup. 32 millim, 761. Agrotis multangula. Noctua multangula, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 116 (1827); Godt. Lép. Fr. y. p. 207, pl. 63. f. 6; Boisd. Icones, pl. 76. f.2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Noctua subrectangula, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 83 (1871). Noctua dissoluta, Staud. Ivis, xii. p. 361 (1899). Head, tegule, and prothoracic crest pale ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi black at sides except at extremity; tegulw black at base; thorax pale reddish brown mixed with fuscous. Fore wing pale red-brown, irrorated with dark brown and slightly with white, especially on the veins to the postmedial line; the sub- basal line represented by double black strive from costa and median nervure ; the antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner margin, and with a black spot on its outer edge at base of claviform, which is large, slightly defined by whitish and black and with a blackish streak from it to post- medial line ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them black, and slight black streaks from the latter to postmedial line, which is double, minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area suffused with fuscous; the subterminal line pale, with slight dentate black marks on its inner side at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area; cilia whitish with a brown line at base; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous especially towards apex, a slight curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. subrectangula. Slightly darker. Ab. 2. dissoluta. Paler ; the fore wing greyer. Hab, France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ausrria, Zeller Coll.; Huoneary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey Coll. ; N. Spain; Russia, Urals; Armenra, Caucasus, Zeller Coll.; Astra Minor, Pontus; Pursta; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul; KE. TurKrsran, Kashgar, Ili; Trser, Amdo; Amurtanp, Ussuri. Lup. 32-36 millim. 416 NOCTUID™. 762. Agrotis capnistis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 21.) Agrotis capnistis, Led. Hor: Soc. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 14, pl. ii. f. 1 (1871); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. dg. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black; tegule black at base; tarsi banded with black; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with black, leaving grey streaks on the veins, the costal area greyer to the post- medial line; the subbasal line represented by double black strigze filled in with grey from costa and cell; the antemedial line black, defined by grey on inner side, interrupted at the veins and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform elongate, defined by grey and black; cell filled in with blackish defining the orbicular and reniform, which are grey with their centres brownish; postmedial line blackish defined by grey on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by a series of grey points angled out- wards at vein'7 and excurved at middle; a fine pale terminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown ; underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown and with a dark postmedial bar. Hab. Asts Minor, Pontus, Amasia, 1 ¢; Syria; N. Persia; W. Torxestan ; E. Turkestan, Ili. Lap. 34 millim. 763. Agrotis juncta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 22.) Agrotis juncta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 171 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. ¢. Head whitish ; tegule black-brown tipped with white ; thorax pale rufous mixed with ochreous, some of the scales tipped with grey ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown, the anal tuft fulvous, Fore wing purple, showing the greyish ground-colour in places; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line black, somewhat irregularly excurved and acutely angled inwards on vein 1; claviform very elongate, with pale outline and some black at base; orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, confluent in lower part of cell, there being a quadrate black spot between their upper portions; the postmedial line black, minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; traces of a subterminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the base pale. Hab, Cawnapva, Nova Scotia, 1 ¢ type. vp. 34 millim. 764, Agrotis rectangula. Noctua rectangula, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 155 (1787); Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 110; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p- 248, pl. 68. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Agrotis anderreggii, Boisd. Ie. Lép. d’ Eur. pl. 76. f. 6 (1882). Agrotis exclamans, Ev. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. 1841, i. p. 27, pl. 3. tT Os Agrotis rectangula, var. acutangula, Staud. Iris, v. p. 855 (1892). Head and thorax purplish brown, the seales tipped with grey ; AGROTIS. 447 palpi at sides except extremity, antennae, and base of tegule black ; tibia and tarsi mixed with black, with pale bands ; abdomen whitish, suffused with reddish brown especially towards extremity. Fore wing purplish brown irrorated with grey; a sinuous black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a pale subbasal line defined by black on outer side, angled outwards below costa, inwards on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin; claviform large, defined by whitish, its base black or rarely entirely filled in by black ; the orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by a few black scales, the former round, the latter with its lower edges produced inwards on median nervure and often confluent with the orbicular; a quadrate black patch in cell between the upper parts Fig. 78.—Agrotis rectangula, 3. 4. of stigmata; two black spots on medial part of costa; the post- medial line minutely dentate, black, defined by grey on outer side, strongly bent ontwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by pale brownish on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7, then dentate; some dark points on termen. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal half ; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line on costal half of wing. The antenne of male have some rough black scales at base of shaft. Ab. 1. anderreqgi. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker purplish fuscous.—Alps; Urals; C. Asia; Siberia: Kamschatka. Ab. 2. acutangula. Fore wing browner, with the stigmata prominent,—C, Asia. Hab. Switzertand, Frey Coll., 3 g, 2 93; Ivraty; Avsrrs; Rumeria; Russta, Kasan,2 ¢, Urals; Asta Mrnor, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Siperta, Altai, 1 9; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul; KE. Turkestan, Thian-Shan Mts.; E. Siseria, Kamschatka, vp. 36 millim, *765. Agrotis patefacta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 23. Noctua patefacta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 333, pl. xv. f. 2 (1895), dé. Head and thorax dark purple-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey; palpi black at sides; tegule with the basal half black ; legs blackish with grey-brown hair; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft with arufous tinge. Fore wing purple-brown suffused with black ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below 448 NOCTUID @. costa and cell; the antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1, developed into spots at costa and below cell; claviform defined by whitish, large ; orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, the former round, the latter angled inwards and confluent with orbicular on median nervure, a quadrate black spot between them in cell, with two small black spots above it on costa; the postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, dentate to vein 2, then incurved; hardly a trace of the subterminal line; cilia fuscous mixed with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen; cilia ochreous white with brown line at base; underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hub, Canana, Calgary, in Coll. Schaus. Zp. 38 millim. 766. Agrotis atrifrons. (Plate LXXI. fig. 24.) Agrotis atrifrons, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 97 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 77. 3. Frons black; palpi and vertex of head grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge, the former blackish at extremity ; thorax grey- brown irrorated with grey; legs marked with fuscous above ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the lateral tufts of hair towards extremity pinkish. Fore wing grey irrorated with black and suffused with ferruginous red on disk and terminal area; a subbasal black striga from costa ; the antemedial line black, oblique, minutely dentate, with a longer tooth above inner margin; the stigmata obsolete ; a slight blackish medial shade angled at lower angle of cell; the postmedial line black, minutely dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and at inner margin somewhat approximated to the antemedial line; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black; no trace of subterminal line. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area from apex to vein 2 brownish. Underside of both wings with curved dark postmedial line obsolete towards inner margin; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 g, New Mexico, Arizona. Hp. 38 millim. 767. Agrotis piscipellis. (Plate LX XI. fig. 25.) Agrotis pisctpellis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 233 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 76. 3. Head and thorax rufous; the palpi at tips and frons deep black; legs irrorated with black; pectus with some pale hair; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous slightly irrorated with grey ; the subbasal line represented by a black point on costa; the ante- AGROTIS, 449 medial line black, slightly waved, and angled outwards below cell and above inner margin; stigmata absent; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, grey, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules. Hind wing white, the veins and inner and terminal areas tinged with brown. Underside of both wings with curved black postmedial line obsolete on inner area, On the fore wing the lines may be absent or the veins streaked with black. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 3d type, Nevada, Arizona. Exp. 34 millim. *768. Agrotis cinereicollis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 26.) Agrotis cinereicollis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 79, pl. iv. f. 6 (1876). Agrotis pallidicollis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 154 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 77. 2. Ochreous; head and tegule greyish white, the latter tipped with ochreous. Fore wing with the costal and terminal areas grey ; the lines single, barely traceable ; a black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line even, oblique; orbicular and reniform moderate, pale, confluent, defined by deeper ochreous brown, the former elliptical, produced on outer side and connected with the latter ; the postmedial line angled beyond cell; the subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and pale terminal areas. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a faint discoidal lunule; the underside ochreous whitish, with dark discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Hwp. 34 millim. This species is un- known to me; figured from a drawing from specimen in Am, Mus. Nat. Hist. 769. Agrotis melanura. Agrotis melanura, Koll. Dalm. deser. del. Carrara, p. 99 (1846); Herr.- Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. vi. p. 61, ff. 187, 188; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 146. Agrotis grisescens, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xiv. p. 427 (1878). Q. Head and thorax white slightly irrorated with dark brown ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with dark brown; four dark points on costa; traces of a waved antemedial line from cell to inner margin; traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the terminal fourth of wing suffused with black. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous brown especially towards termen. Underside white, with the terminal area suffused with black, narrowing to tornus of hind wing. VOL. IY. Wn & 450 NOCTUID®. Ab. 1. grisescens. Fore wing dull grey. Hab. Datmatita; Asta Mtynor, Pontus, 2 9, Taurus; Persra, Mesopotamia; W. Turxestan. Exp. 38 millim. 770. Agrotis subporphyra. (Plate LXXI. fig. 27.) Mythimna subporphyrea, Wik. xv. 1658 (1858) ; Smith, Cat. Noct, N. Am. p. 76. @. Head and tegule rufous; thorax rufous mixed with grey ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous. Fore wing purplish rufous slightly irrorated with grey ; the subbasal line obsolete ; the ante- medial line indistinct, fuscous, slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below the cell; the stigmata completely absent ; the postmedial line indistinct, fuscous, slightly bent outwards below costa, excuryed between veins 5 and 3, then oblique ; a subterminal greyish line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at median nervules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown, the underside with the costal area suffused with rufous. Hab. U.S.A., Georgia (? Abbot), 2 9 type. Exp. 46 millim. *771. Agrotis tepperi. Agrotis tepperi, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, x. p. 452 (1887) ; id. Cat. Noct. ISB Zins OS UE White, sparsely irrorated with black ; tegule tipped with black. Fore wing with the lines single, fuscous; the antemedial line oblique, slightly excurved; orbicular and reniform indistinct, ill-defined, the former small, round, the latter moderate, defined by black below and on outer side; postmedial line sinuous, distinctly angled beyond the cell; subterminal line broad, diffused, remote from termen but nearly parallel to it; a distinct terminal series of dark spots. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards termen; the underside white with dark irroration. Hab. US.A., Montana. Hap. 34 milim. This species is un- known to me. 772. Agrotis annularis. (Plate LXXI. fig. 28.) Axylia annularis, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 265 (1891). Agrotis transjecta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous, and the latter more or less strongly with black; palpi black at sides except at tips; abdomen brownish ochreous, with blackish lateral stripes. Fore wing ochreous slightly suffused with rufous; the veins and inter- spaces rather obscurely streaked with brown ; a prominent diffused black streak in base of submedian fold; the antemedial line represented by a striga from costa and an indistinct line angled inwards on vein | and very strongly outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform small with pale annuli, the former round, the cell before and between them black, and with black streaks AGROTIS. 451 from the reniform above and below vein 5 to termen ; a postmedial series of black points on the veins bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dark patch on termen above tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered ochreous and black. Hind wing ochreous white, with interrupted brown terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. Hab. Masuonatand, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 g; TRANsvaat, Pretoria, type f ¢ transjecta in Coll. Distant. Mapaaascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 $. Exp. 24-28 millim. 773. Agrotis dispalata. (Plate LXXI. fig. 29.) Axylia dispalata, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1891, p. 145; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 187. Head and tegule ochreous; thorax fuscous; tibise and tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen greyish tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown; the costal area suffused with black; the subbasal line represented by double black striz from costa ; slight brown streaks in, above, and below cell before the antemedial line, which is double, dentate, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1; orbicular and reniform very small, with dark centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round, the cell before and between them black; an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line consisting of a treble series of points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a dentate dark mark from termen above middle to the postmedial line, and a slight mark above tornus; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. Hab. Bompay, Poona (Swinhoc), 1 g, 1 9, type, Khandalla (Swinhoe), 1 9 ; Mapras, Belgaum (Watson), 2 $. Eup. 28-30 millim,. 774. Agrotis sicca. (Plate LXXI. fig. 30.) Axylia sicca, Guen. Noct. i. p. 185 (1852). Axylia renalis, Moore, P. Z, 8. 1881, p. 341; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 187. Head ochreous tinged with rufous; palpi, except at tips, and a bar across frons fuscous; tegule ochreous at base, with rufous medial band and dark tips; patagia rufous ; thorax fuscous; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale fuscous, the last with pale ventral stripe. Fore wing ochreous; the costal area purplish fuscous ; pale streaks on base of subcostal and median nervures and two in cell; the subbasal line represented by double strice from costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, very strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and Dav aGa 452 NOCTUIDAE, reniform purplish fuscous, small, defined by black and their centres by blackish, the former round, the cell before and between them black, continued as streaks above and below vein 5 to termen; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to a double series of points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a terminal series of prominent black points and a fuscous mark above tornus; cilia intersected with black. Hind wing yellowish semihyaline white ; the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with brown; cilia pale ochreous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and post medial series of strix on the veins of costal half. Hab. C. Cotony, Transkei (dfiss F. Barrett), 1 9 ;° Punsan, Simla (Harford), 1 3, 3 Q type, Dalhousie (Harford), 2 9, Dharmsila (/locking), 4 ¢, 4 2, Kangra Valley, 4500' (Dudgeon), 19; Sinv. Hep, 32-36 millim. 775. Agrotis putris. Noctua putris, Linn. Faun. Suee. p. 315 (1746); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 138. ff. 4,5; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Houst. it. p. 172; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 168, pl. exi. f.3; Hampsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 186; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Noctua subcorticalis, Wifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 808 (1767). Noctua lignosa, Hiibn. Kur. Schmett., Noct. f. 245 (1827). Axylia triseriata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 409. Head and tegule ochreous, the latter with slight rufous medial line and rufous tips ; palpi rufous; thorax rufous mixed with black; abdomen brownish ochreous with dark lateral line. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area and cell suffused with dark red-brown; two fine pale streaks in basal part of cell; the subbasal line represented by two slight strie from costa; a slight rufons streak above base of vein 1 bent upwards towards extremity ; the ante- medial line double, the inner line pale rufous, very highly dentate and angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and ochreous annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter with a grey S-shaped mark on it; an oblique pale rufous shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, and produced to a double series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex; rufous streaks above and below vein 5 from or from just beyond reniform to close to termen; a rufous mark above tornus and slight black dash on extremity of vein 2; aterminal series of black points; cilia intersected with brown, most prominently below apex and above tornus. Hind wing ochreous, the veins brownish, the terminal area tinged with brown ; a terminal series of dark strize; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. The form ¢riseriata from Japan and N, India is rather darker. Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; Francr; Guruany, Zeller & Frey AGROTIS, 453 Colls.; Avsrria, Zeller Coll.; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Swrrzertanp ; N. Spain; Ivaty; Rossta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Arment; W. Siperra, Altai; Amurtanp, Ussuri; Corea; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 9, Hakodate (Andrewes), 2 9, Tokio (Maries), 1 @ ; Cuina, Foo-chan (Leech), 1 ¢ ; Punsas, Dharmsala (Hocking), 3 3, 5 2, type triseriata; Sixxim (Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 22. Hxp. 34-40 millim. Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 3, pl. 137. f. 1. Pale brown with darker irroration ; dorsal line pale, interrupted ; a subdorsal series of dark greenish-fuscous oblique marks, more prominent on somites 4, 5, 9, 10, edged below by pale ochreous ; an ochreous bar on somite 11; spiracular line pale tinged with pinkish or yellowish; head brown with darker markings, Food- plants: Stellaria, Atriplex, Plantago, ete. 7-8. 776. Agrotis coniorta, n. sp. (Plate LAXI. fig. 31.) Head and thorax ochreous or whitish largely mixed with black, sometimes tinged with reddish; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous, sometimes tinged with purplish red, and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by double black strize from costa and cell; a diffused black fascia below base of cell; a double waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a slight black streak ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former a sinall ocellus, a black fascia in cell before and between the stigmata; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by a blackish patch with pale points on it on costa, before it and the area beyond it blackish, bent outwards to apex and excuryed at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of black points; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point and somewhat dentate postmedial line. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Masailand, El Quaso, 1 9, El Burgon (Betton), 6 $,3 @ type, Laril 2. Levp. 26 millim. *777. Agyrotis effracta. (Plate LXXI. fig. 32.) Agrotis effracta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 220 (1898). ¢. Head and thorax brown with a purplish-grey gloss ; tegule with black medial band; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing dull brown suffused with purplish fuscous, leaving the basal costal area, the inner medial area, and a diffused oblique band from apex to inner margin ochreous brown ; traces of a waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, the former round, a black fascia between them continued in discal fold to termen; a 454 NOCTUID®. short fascia on terminal part of vein 6; postmedial line very indis- tinct, bent outwards below costa, then as an oblique series of points on the veins; the subterminal line represented by some obscure ochreous-brown spots on inner half; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous, the costal area tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and postmedial series on the veins. Hab. Transvaat, Pretoria (Distant), 1 $ type f in Coll. Distant. Exp. 32 millim. *778. Agrotis talda. Ochropleura talda, Schaus, Lep. Sierra Leone, p. 33, pl. iii. f. 1 (1893). Head and thorax reddish and dark brown; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and irrorated with fuscous; faint traces of the subbasal and antemedial lines ; orbicular and reniform small, very distinct, with black patch between them in cell, and black streak from the reniform to subterminal line; postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; traces of a pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark patch at costa; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing of male white, the cilia fuscous at apex; of female the whole wing suffused with fuscous; the under- side with dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved, waved, post- medial line. Hab. Sterra Leone; Cameroons (Sjdstedt), in Mus. Stockholm. Evp, 24-25 millim, 779. Agrotis cinctithorax. (Plate LXXIL. fig. 1.) Hadena cinctithorax, Wk. xi. 591 (1857). 3. Head and thorax rufous, the latter with broad blackish band behind the tegule ; hind tibize and tarsi blackish banded with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale rufous, slightly irrorated with black; the basal and costal areas more ochreous; the subbasal line represented by double striz from costa and cell, the antemedial line by a double series of points on costa, veins, and inner margin; orbicular a small elongate black spot; reniform greyish, with a black streak across it ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only defined by blackish patches on its inner side at costa and middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind wing yellowish white, with terminal series of slight dark points ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a dis- coidal point and curved postmedial series on the veins. Hab, Cars Cotony (Sir A, Smith), 1 g type. Hap. 34 millim. AGROTIS. 455 780. Agrotis catenifera. (Plate LX XII. fig. 2.) Agrotis catenifera, Wik. Tr. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 349 (1873). @. Head and thorax clothed with grey-brown and black scales ; tegule with blackish streaks; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey-brown, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a slight diffused black streak in base of submedian fold ; the antemedial line indistinct, waved; claviform elongate, black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former nearly round and with fuscous centre, the latter fuscous, the stigmata close together and connected by a fuscous streak; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line represented by an oblique fuscous bar from costa, then by a series of black points on the veins ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas suffused with brown, Hab. W. Arrica, Congo, 1 2 type. vp. 42 millim. 7381. Agrotis ravida. Noctua ravida, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776); Hibn. Eur. Schmett., eee 126; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 66. f.6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind, ii. OF . Woseuz obducta, Esp. Schmett. Hur. iy. pl. 142. f. 4 (1786). Noctua austera, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iy. pl. 142. f. 5 (1786). Noctua bigramma, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iv. pl. 150. f. 2 (1786). ee Brahm, Ins. Kal. ii. p. 191 (1791); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. . 136. Caio valida, Wik. xxxiii. p. 711 (1865). Agrotis stabulorum, Bienert, Disc. p. 34 (1870); Christ. Rom. Mém. ii. pl. xii. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. Agrotis nipona, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 110. f. 20 (1874). Graphiphora caliginea, Butl. A. M. N, H. (5) 1. p. 165 (1878). Agrotis glis, Christ. Rom. Mém, iii. p. 64, pl. 3. f. 10 (1887); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. ¢. Head and tegule red-brown, the latter tipped with grey; thorax purplish brown mixed with grey; pectus and legs fuscous brown and grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale purplish red-brown irrorated with grey and black, the veins grey irrorated with black; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to sub- median fold, a more or less prominent black streak from its lower extremity to the double, waved antemedial line, which is blackish filled in with grey ; the orbicular and reniform with white-irrorated centres and greyish annuli more or less prominently defined by black, the former elliptical, a black streak often present before and between them in cell; traces of a waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, blackish, filled in with grey, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved in discal fold, oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line greyish, angled out- wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; some pale points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with brown especially towards termen; the 456 NOCIUID®, veins brown; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point, a black postmedial line on costal area, and series of slight streaks on the veins. Ab. 1. stabulorum. Paler; fore wing without the basal black streak, the stigmata not defined. Ab. 2. 2 9. Hing wing wholly brown.—Punjab; Thundiani. Hab. Brrrary, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Guruany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzprtanp; Iraty; Russra, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asta Minor, Pontus; Prersta; N. Persia; W. Turxesran, Turco- mania, Ferghana, Issyk-kul; E. Turxestan, Kuldja, 2 ¢, 19; Tiser, Amdo; Srperta; Amurtanp; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 3 3,4 2, type caliginea, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 3,19, Chiuzenji (Lewis), 1 2, Hakodate, 2 2, type t 2 xzpona in Coll. Rothschild ; Corra, Gensan (Leech), 1 9; N.Cuina, Shanghai (Fortune), 2 9 type valida; Kasuuir, Dras (Leech), 2 $3; Punsas, Thundiani (Yerbury),2 9. Eup. 44-54 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 886, pl. 136. f. 1. Ochreous brown ; dorsal line paler; a subdorsal series of curved, or sometimes nearly straight, oblique, yellowish marks, edged above with fuscous; head grey, with fuscous markings. Food-plants : Taraxacum, Stellaria, ete. 9-5. 782. Agrotis inopinata. (Plate LX XII. fig. 3.) Noctua inopinatus, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 103 (1898). ¢. Head and thorax fuscous brown; antennz rufous; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown ; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial dark line angled out- wards below costa and above inner margin, and with small wedge- shaped black marks on it in cell ; orbicular and reniform prominently defined by black, the former round, the latter large ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale fuscous, especially on terminal half; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown; a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢. Hwp. 46 millim. 783. Agrotis sierre. (Plate LXXII. fig. 4.) Agrotis sierre, Haw. Can. Ent. viii, p. 87 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 75. 3. Head and thorax brown, the scales tipped with greyish ; palpi and legs irrorated with black ; abdomen ochreous mixed with dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with grey; a dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then minutely waved and oblique; clayiform indistinctly outlined with black ; orbicular and AGROTIS. A5F reniform outlined with black, the former round, open above, the Jatter with large blackish spot on its outer edge; the postmedial line dentate, with some pale scales on its outer edge, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct greyish subterminal line excurved below costa. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; the underside irro- rated with brown, with discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 9. Abdomen darker ; hind wing fuscous brown. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado,1 ¢,1 9, California, Sierra Nevada, 1 2 type. Hwp. 46-48 millim. *784. Agrotis aucta. Agrotis aucta, Alph. Rom. Mém, vi. p. 25, pl. 2. f. 3 (1892) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. pp. 186, 254. Head and thorax pale brownish grey, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; abdomen brownish white. Tore wing brownish grey, some- times with a slight reddish tinge ; subbasal line represented by two slight strixe from costa; traces of a double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1; claviform defined by a few dark scales at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly defined by fuscous, the former open above ; postmedial line indistinct or nearly obsolete, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line defined by a dark shade on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal half suffused with brown, the inner area with an ochreous tinge; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown; a dis- coidal lunule and postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab. Tisrr, Kuku-noor, in Coll. Pingeler; W. Cuina. Lap. 48 millim. 785. Agrotis squalida. (Plate LX XII. fig. 5.) Agrotis squalida, Guen, Noct. i. p. 300 (1852) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 186. Agrotis confinis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 422. Head and thorax pale brown; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with dark brown; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line twice angled inwards in cell, excurved below cell and angled strongly inwards on vein lL; orbicular and reniform almost obsolete ; traces of a medial shade; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a slight subterminal shade, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of points. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale brown, especially towards margins; veius brown; the underside whiter, with post- medial series of white points on the veins. Other specimens have the head and thorax much darker; fore wing irrorated with fuscous, the antemedial line double, the clavi- 458 NOCTUID, form slightly defined; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical ; hind wing tinged with fuscous. Hab. Russa, ? Urals; Anmenta, Caucasus; N. Pursta, Schakuh ; W. Siperza, Altai; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ¢, 1 9, Tarbagatai Mts., Ala Tau, Issyk-kul, Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Ili; Moneorra, Uliassutai Mts., Changhai Mts.; Trser, Kuku-noor. Exp. 46 millim. 786. Agrotis unimacula. (Plate LXXII. fig. 6.) Agrotis unimacula, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874). Agrotis haruspica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 212 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 74. Agrotis augur, var. grandis, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 122 (1875). Head and thorax dull reddish brown, the scales with grey tips ; palpi and legs mixed with fuscous ; abdomen grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with grey and fuscous; a wayed black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; claviform sometimes with its extremity defined by black scales; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique, U-shaped, open above, almost obsolete, the latter large, usually more or less open above and below and with black spot on its outer edge; the postmedial line highly dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein +, then incurved; a pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, more or less strongly defined by fuscous suffusion on its inner edge; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing yellowish brown; the cilia ochreous; the underside grey irrorated with brown, with dark discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Norman, 1 ¢, Renfrew Co.,45,29; Br. Conumpra (Kean), 1 9; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, New York, 4d, 4 9, type haruspica, Montana, Colorado, Utah. wp. 46-54 millim. 787. Agrotis augur. Noctua augur, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 223 (1781); Hubn. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 148; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 73. £6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. », 136. Neca omega, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 131. f. 2 (1788). Noctua assimulans, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 209 (1790). Noctua hippophaes, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 782 (1827). Agrotis abdita, J. Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 81; Mab. Nov. Lep. p. 128, pl. 18. f. 1. Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey; palpi and legs irrorated with black; abdomen grey-brown, tinged with ochreous and irrorated with grey. Fore wing yellowish brown with a slight reddish or greyish tinge, and irrorated with fuscous; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform outlined with black or more or less obsolete; orbicular and reniform outlined with black, AGROTIS, 459 the former oblique, Y-shaped, open above, the latter often open above or below, and with black spot on its outer edge; the post- medial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a pale subterminal line, angled outwards below costa and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellow- brown, with the cilia ochreous; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Briraty; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey Coll.; Iraty; Norway, Sondmore, 1 2; Russia, Livonia, 1 9; Syria, typet 2 abditain Coll. Joanis; Amur; Japan. Exp. 46-50 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 96; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 36, pl. 141. f. 3. Purplish brown or greenish grey ; a double dorsal series of white dots and oblique darker marks ; spiracular line dark brown ; somite 12 with transverse dark mark dilated at extremities, pale-edged posteriorly ; head pale brown. Food-plants: Salix, Rume.x, etc. *78e. Agrotis sibirica. Agrotis sibirica, Boisd. Icones, pl. 80, f. 6 (1832); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with brown. Fore wing grey-brown; the subbasal line represented by double strize from costa and cell; the antemedial line double, oblique, waved, with more prominent spots at costa; claviform defined by black above and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former round, incomplete above and below, the latter with slight pale annulus; postmedial line double, strongly dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, pale, irregularly dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a slight series of dentate dark marks; a terminal series of small black lunules; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line at base; the underside pale suffused with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab, Srperta, type t o in Coll. Oberthur; E. Srpera, Ussuri ; Corea. Kap. 48 millim. 789. Agrotis jalapa, n. sp. (Plate LX XII. fig. 7.) Ufeus satyricus, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 266 (nec Grote). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen silky brown. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with black; the veins with blackish streaks ; the submedian nervure with blackish streak stronger towards base ; the subbasal line represented by double striz on costa; the ante- medial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards on median 460 NOCTUIDA, nervure and vein 1, the inner line weak; orbicular and reniform obscurely defined by black and with black streak between them in lower part of cell; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some blackish streaks in interspaces of terminal area; the subterminal line very indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected with black, and with pale line at base. Hind wing pale brown; a fine dark terminal line and line at base of cilia; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown; a dark discoidal lunule and curyed postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 g, 1 Q type, Godman-Salvin Coll. xp. 50-54 millim. 790. Agrotis havile. (Plate LXXII. fig. 8.) Agrotis clandestina, var. havile, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. vi. p. 157 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 76. Head and tegule reddish brown, the latter tipped with grey ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown mixed with grey. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with grey and fuscous; a more or less deve- loped black streak below base of cell ; the double subbasal line only indicated at costa; the double antemedial line more or less strongly dentate, the dentitions increasing in length towards inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform more or less completely defined by black and either small or well-developed, the former longitudinally elliptical and sometimes connected with the reniform; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then excurved to vein 4, and angled inwards in discal and submedian folds; the subterminal line indis- tinct, grey, angled outwards on veins 6, 4, and 3 and crossed by dark streaks on the veins; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing brown; the cilia white with brown line at base : the underside greyer, with dark irroration on costal area and dark discoidal point. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Cockerell), 3 9, Nevada, 1 ¢ type, S. California, 1 ¢,39. exp. 38-43 millim. 791. Agrotis lucens. (Plate LXXII. fig. 9.) Spelotis lucens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 179. ®. Head and thorax dark brown, the scales tipped with grey; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings; abdomen reddish brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous brown and irrorated with black; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a similar antemedial line filled in with greyish and angled inwards on vein 1; claviform very indistinct, greyish; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by black, the former small, round; postmedial line double, filled in with greyish, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a dentate grey subterminal line slightly angled outwards AGROTIS. 461 at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown with a slight reddish tinge; cilia greyish with a brown line at base; the underside grey irrorated with brown ; a sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal band. Hab, Javan, Tokio (Maries), 1 2 type. Hap. 42 millim. 792, Agrotis deplorata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 10.) Agrotis deplorata, Staud. Tris, ix. p. 241 (1896) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Agrotis sennina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 241 (1896). Head and tegule grey; palpi fuscous except at tips ; tegule with black bands near base and at extremity ; thorax blackish, the scales slightly tipped with grey; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; the subbasal line represented by two oblique strize from costa; a black streak below cell from near base to the indistinct double, waved, ante- medial line which is angled outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by shght black marks at its base and extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, rounded, greyish, with slight pale annuli defined by black with some black suftusion in cell before and between them; the postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line obscurely defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia white, with brownish line at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. sennina. Head and tegule browner ; fore wing darker. Hab. Moneorta, Uliassutai Mts.,1 5,19. Hep. 44 millim, 793. Agrotis senna. Noctua senna, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett. i. ff. 771-2 (1827); Buoisd. Icones, pl. 77, f.4; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 183, pl. 18, f.2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Agrotis valdensts, Boisd. Ind, Meth. p. 63 (1829). Head and tegule reddish brown mixed with grey, the latter with medial black band; thorax black-brown mixed with grey; tarsi with white rings; abdomen grey-brown, ventrally grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brown thickly irrorated with grey; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, where there is a black streak from it to the double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform small, slightly defined by black and grey or almost obsolete ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former round, a black fascia or suffusion in the cell before and between them; the postmedial line black, defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, and produced to grey points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold to the reniform and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line grey, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at 462 NOCTUID ©. middle, the veins beyond it streaked with grey ; some white points on costa towards apex. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia white with brown line at base; the underside white, the terminal area suffused with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. Hab. EB. France; S.W. Germany ; SwirzEertanp, Valais, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. wp. 34-40 millim. *794. Agrotis clemens. (Plate LXXII. fig. 11.) Agrotis clemens, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 44 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 75. Q. Head and thorax dark brown pencilled with ochreous ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing pale luteous brown strongly irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, black antemedial line more strongly angled outwards in submedian fold; a black discoidal spot; two slight fuscous spots beyond angles of cell; a slight waved medial shade from cell to inner margin ; a strongly dentate postmedial line produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a pale subterminal line, slightly angled outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of fuscous spots on its inner edge; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing pale brown; cilia whitish ; the underside paler with dark discoidal point, a slightly sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. Hab. US.A., California, Placer Co., in Coll. Schaus. Lup, 44 millim. Genus METALEPSIS. Type Metalepsis, Grote, Check List Noct. p. 25 (1875) .........csseeeeee cornuta. Proboscis well developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front; frons smooth; eyes ronnded, strongly ciliated ; antenne of male pectinate with rather short branches; frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair; thorax clothed with hair, tegule forming a dorsal ridge, pro- and metathorax with crests; tibize strongly spined ; abdomen fringed with long hair at sides. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of eell; 5 obsolcscent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 795. Metalepsis cornuta. Pachnobia cornuta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 68 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. ¢. Head and thorax purplish rufous ; vertex of head and tegulee dirty white, the latter with black line at base and brown medial line ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen pale strongly irrorated with black-brown, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish rufous, the costal and terminal areas suffused METALEPSIS.—EUCOPTOCNEMIS. 468 with lilacine grey; the subbasal line represented by a black striga on costa and slight streaks on median nervure and in submedian fold ; the antemedial line grey defined by brown on outer side, with black striga at costa, angled slightly outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then excurved to vein 1 where it is angled strongly outwards ; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform irrorated with white, with whitish annuli defined by blackish, the former elongate and confluent with the reniform ; the postmedial line grey defined by brown, minutely waved, with two black strige at costa, Fig. 79.—Metalepsis cornuta, 3. }. bent strongly outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by brown on inner side and by an oblique black bar at costa, with black point and short streak below it, then by fuscous streaks on the veins, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale purplish suffused with fuscous, with obscure dis- coidal spot and diffused postmedial band ; the underside purplish red irrorated with white and fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and curved minutely waved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Califernia, 1 g type. Exp. 32 millim. Genus EUCOPTOCNEMIS. Eucoptocnemis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 13 (Ss) noni deschineecaesstenconscnae cena ssc reraindaceessonerere ters Jimbriaris. Type. Proboscis rather aborted, small; palpi upturned to about vertex of head, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with long hair; fore tibiz short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, spined at sides; mid and hind tibizw strongly spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Secr. I. Fore wing narrow, the costa concave, the apex produced upwards, 796. Eucoptocnemis stenistis, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax white and reddish brown, the scales tipped with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey 464 NOCTUID&. irrorated with brown; the costa dark; patches of blackish scales on basal inner area and at end of cell. Hind wing white, the costal Fig. 80.—LHucoptocnemis stenistis, S. +. and terminal areas tinged with brown; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of points on the veins, Hab. Cutt, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 3 type. Hep. 16 millim. Secr. IT. Fore wing broad, with the costa not concave. A. Fore wing with the antemedial line double, filled in with WLS. Bac eeeec eet west ane tereaeee mere eee Re eae ones ee Sfimbriaris. B. Fere wing with the antemedial line single ................0000e tripars. 797. Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris. Heliophobus fimbriaris, Guen. Noct. i. p. 172 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct, N. Am. p. 109. Graphiphora obvia, W\k. xv. 1707 (1858). ¢. Head and thorax grey, the hairs tipped with dark brown and white ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; abdomen brownish grey. Ni Fig. 81.—Eucoptocnemis fimbriaris, 3. 4. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown scales; the subbasal line represented by double striae at costa and below cell; the antemedial line double, minutely waved, oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled; claviform absent; orbicular represented by a black point; reniform a narrow ochreous bar with blackish line at centre and diffused black outline ; the postmedial line white defined on each side by blackish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then reduced to small spots on the veins and oblique below vein 4; a waved subterminal line with the area beyond it greyer, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, with diffused subterminal brown EUCOPLOCNEMIS, —ONYCHAGROTIS. 465 band, or the whole terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside with discoidal point and postmedial series of striae on the veins. Ab. 1. obvia. Colour much more rufous. flab, U.S.A. (Doubleday), 3 3 ,type and type obuvia, Massachusetts. Exp. 40 millim, 798. Eucoptocnemis tripars. (Plate LX XII. fig. 12.) Mythymna tripars, Wik. ix. 78 (1856), 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 86. Agrotis worthingtoni, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 91 (1880), 3. 3S. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown; side of palpi and frons blackish; antenne reddish brown; abdomen grey, with a fuscous dorsal band on subterminal segment. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal black points below costa and cell ; the antemedial line indistinct, and somewhat excurved below the cell; the orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, the former hardly more than a point, the latter much constricted at middle ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with minute black streaks on the veins ending in white points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very indistinct and slightly angled outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white irrorated with brown ; a dark terminal punctiform line; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of short streaks on the yeins. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour chestnut ; abdomen suffused with brown; hind wing brown except the cell and just beyond it. Hab. U.S.A. (Doubleday), 1 2 type, N. York, Indiana, 1 ¢, type worthingtonu. Hep, 34 millim. Genus ONYCHAGROTIS, nov. Type, O. rileyana. Proboseis fully developed; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair; frons smooth, without prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male bipectinate to apex with moderate branches; head and thorax clothed with rough scales and hair, the pro- and metathorax with slight crests; fore tibia rather short and broad, with two claws on inner side and seven claws on outer, diminishing in length towards base; mid and hind tibia strongly spined. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rounded; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; IL from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 799. Onychagrotis rileyana. Agrotis rileyana, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Aim. p. 86. ¢. Head and thorax grey, tinged with brown and irrorated with black; palpi black at sides ; antenne with the shaft whitish above, the branches rufous ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey, with brownish dorsal bands. Fore wing pale brownish, thickly irrorated VOL. IV. 2H 466 NocTulp #, with fuscous; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, and bent outwards above inner margin; claviform small, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined by black, the former rounded ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the Fig. 82.—Onychagrotis rileyana, §. }. subterminal line indistinet, pale, waved, and slightly angled outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown; the underside with slight discoidal lunule. Q. Greyer; hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown. Hab. U.S.A., N. York, Illinois, 1 9, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California (Behrens), 1 ¢ type, New Mexico. Zizp. 38 millim. Genus PSEUDORTHOSIA. rT. ype. Pseudorthosia, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci.ii. p. 161 (1874) ... aS Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front; frons with slight roughened prominence ; eyes large, round, naked; antenne of male minutely biserrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed with long hair and without crests; tibix strongly spined; abdomen dorsally clothed with long hair at base. Fore wing with veins 5 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 froin upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle. 800. Pseudorthosia variabilis. Pseudorthosia variabilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci, ii. p. 161 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. Head and thorax pale ochreous, rufous, or dark brown; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, with the hair at base whitish, the ventral surface and legs irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing ochreous or rufous irrorated with dark brown, and some- times suffused with fuscous brown; the subbasal line sometimes represented by dark points below costa and cell; the antemedial line well developed or obsolete, angled outwards below costa and cell and inwards in cell and on vein 1; the orbicular a small pale- edged oblique dark lunule, sometimes almost obsolete; a diffused medial line excurved from costa to median neryure, then oblique ; PSEUDORTHOSIA.—EPISILIA. 467 the reniform a pale-edged, dark, bar-shaped mark ; the postmedial line with pale outer edge, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, and with dark mark at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at Fig. 83.—Pseudorthosia variahilis, $. T° middle; a series of black terminal points. Hind wing ochreous white, often tinged with brown; a dark discoidal spot and more or Jess distinct diffused subterminal band; a terminal series of dark points. : : Hab. Canava, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 8,192; U.S.A, Colorado, California, Sanszalito, 3 ¢,3 2,type. wp. 44 millim. Genus EPISILIA. Type. Episihas ton Vierz. nya! (US2i)\ie etek se-cecncececsecs Leen latens. POCRMOULE CICNEPNOCEs 1s) Pages LS OZ) ice aaasciesieee aieeceestos eeliac tecta. Cyrebia, Guen. Nocti site py VOD S52) ) .c.cscsjeessersie snares se luperinoides, L2siy vite, NNW 33-9, UT) (QUST): ncaanacadsoeanonesdancoscocobnsace sce interclusa. OxingaNVilkex xsd GOGTCISGS)) che .sssonscstmeesccececs seasece aden ochracea. Choephora, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 199 (1868) ...... fingorum. Raddea, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 450 (1892) ...... digna. Ammogrotis, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 358 (1895) oc... cece eee eee ees suavis, Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, clothed with long hair; frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with long hair; fore tibixe spined at sides; mid and hind tibiz spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolesecent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. Scr. I. (Psaphara). Antenne of male bipectinate, with rather long branches to apex. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the orbicular large, open above. a, Fore wing with distinct subterminal line ............... hyperhorea, b'. Fore wing with the subterminal line absent ............ gravida. b. Fore wing with the orbicular small, entire. a‘, Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical ......... perdita. b1, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, elliptical ...... bicolor, ce. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform absent......... typhlina. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell, a. Fore wing with the lines dentate. a‘. Fore wing with the ground-colour greyish brown, a, Fore wing with quadrate blackish patch in cell Debw een CHOVSh MAGA co ccscsceece-cscccsssseeseecasenes oblongula. &*, Fore wing with rufous streak in cell and discal fold. dissociata, . Fore wing with black spot in cell between the stigmata. inderclusa. 2H 2 468 NOCTUID®. i’, Fore wing dark red-brown, the veins streaked with Brey -..-2:- seseneannssnncceecareessesrsenenvestaseeuconecrworans coppingeri. cl Pore wile: briehitimulous ss senaceeseeeeeeseeecsaescacscenessas Srigida. b. Fore wing with the lines non-dentate. a, Fore wing with blackish pateh in cell between the stigmata. a>, Fore wing grey, the lines white ....5:.......00..- 0000+ hilaris. 6?, Fore wing pale red, the lines dark ..................0.. Juugorun. 6‘. bore wing without blackish patch in cell, the reniform dark. a’, Kore wing pale red ; hind wing whitish. a Fore wing with distinet subterminal line ......... madida. Fore wing without subterminal line.................. molepa. io es wing yellow; hind wing black-brown............ stramined, 801. Episilia hyperborea. Hadena hyperborea, Zett Ins. Lapp. p. 988 (1840); Guen. Noet. i. p. 342, pl. 4. f. 10; Mill. con. Lep. pl. 60. ff. 3, 4; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. » Lee Haden aquilonaris, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 940 (1840). Hadena alpicola, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840). Agrotis alpina, Humph. & Westw. Brit. Moths, i. p. 118, pl. 23. f. 15 (1843). Agrotis carnica, Herring, Stett. e. Zeit. 1846, p. 236. Orthosia glacialis, Herr.-Scuatf. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 421-5 (1849). Agrotis iveni, Huber, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. vi. p. 135, pl. 3. f. 6 (1869). Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing violaceous grey ; a diffused black streak below base of cell; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below cell and above inner margin ; claviform detined by black at extremity ; orbicular large, whitish, defined by black, the former open above, the latter with fuscous centre, the cell before and between them blackish; an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; the subterminal line defined by diffused somewhat dentate black marks on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia white; the underside white, irrorated with brown; a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. carnica. Fore wing suffused with ferruginous.—AlIps ; Cerne: Ab. 2. alpina. Fore wing tinged with pink and suffused with rufous, the interspaces below and beyond cell with diffused black streaks.—Shetland ; Scotland ; Ireland. Hab. Britain, Shetland, 3 ¢, 1 Q, Scotland, 1 ¢, Ireland; Germany, Silesia; Huneary; Carrnrata; Swirzertanp, Engadine, 1 6, 3 9; Scanptnavia, Lapland, 4 5, 5 9; Russia, Amur, Leech Coll, 1 ¢,1 9. Hap. 34-40 millim. EPISILIA. 469 Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 231, pl. 215. £. 1. Brown-red, striated with black ; a dorsal series of rather V-shaped patches composed of striations ; dorsal and subdorsal lines ochreous, partly black-edged above; spiracular line indistinct, pale; head brown. Food-plants: Hmypetrum, Arbutus, Vaccinium. 8-6. 802. Episilia gravida. Agrotis gravida, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. ix, 1885, p. 59; id. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, vi. Lép. p. 15, pl. i. f. 4 Head and thorax olive-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint black at sides ; legs mostly fuscous; abdomen black, mixed with rutous. Fore wing olive-brown ; a rufous and black fascia below basal half of cell attenuate at extremities ; the subbasal line represented by a striga from costa, the antemedial line by strigee from costa and median nervure; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by black in the cell befere and between them and a rufous patch with blackish streaks beyond the latter; some black points on costa towards apex and a terminal series. Hind wing fuscous brown, with dark maculate terminal line; the underside grey- brown, with black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved post- medial line. Hab. Paraconta, Straits of Magellan, Port Charrua (J.J. Walker), 1 3 ; Tierra pet Fusco, typet 2 in Mus. Paris, Hep. 44 millim, *803. Episilia perdita. (Plate LX XLII. fig. 13.) Agrotis perdita, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. tv. p. 55 (1899). g. Head and tegule pale rufous; thorax dark rufous ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing rufous ; the costal area greyish to the postmedial line ; the cell and a patch below its base dark brown; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by brown striz from costa; median nervure streaked with grey; orbicular and reniform grey and conjoined to costal area, the former small, oblique, elliptical ; an oblique brown medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line indistinct, defined by greyish on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of dark points ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot. Hab. Tirrka pet Furco, Rio Grande (Ohlin), typeT ¢ in Mus, Stockholm. Lap. 34 millim. 804, Episilia bicolor. Agrotis bicolor, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 69 (1885); id. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Lép. p. 17, pl. ii. f. 1. gd. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, thorax with some 470 NOCTUID. grey hairs, Fore wing deep red-brown, the costal area to post- medial line and veins rather paler; some diffused black below base of cell; orbicular and reniform small, pale, the former elongate, elliptical, the cell before and between them black; traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by the area beyond it being greyer ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous. Underside fuscous brown. 2. Fore wing with the costal area much greyer to the postmedial line, the orbicular larger and confluent with costal area. Hab. Pavagonta, Sts. of Magellan, Port Charrua (J. J. Walker), 1 $; Tierra pet Funeo, type + in Mus, Paris, Hap. 38 millim. 805. Episilia typhlina. Agrotis typhlina, Mab, Bull. Soc. Philom, ix. 1885, p. 58; id. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, vi. Lép. p. 12, pl. ii. f. 5. dg. Head and thorax olive-brown to red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegule whitish in front, with medial black band ; abdomen rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing ohve-brown ; a rufous and black fascia below base of cell, attenuate at extremities; a fascia in lower part of cell from before middle to lower angle; a fascia above inner margm from near base to beyond middle, with another above vein 1 from before middle to termen; slight dark marks above bases of veins 2 to 4, and a series of dentate black marks just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, Underside olive- brown tinged with fuscous. Hab. Pavaconta, Straits of Magellan, Puerto Bueno (Coppinger), 2. xp. 40 millim. Type? in Mus, Paris. *806. Episilia oblongula. Noctua quadrangula, Fy. Bull. Mose. 1844, iii. p. 592, pl. 14. f. 2 (nee Zett. 1840); Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Hur., Noct. f. 496. Agrotis oblongula, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187 (1901). dg. Head and thorax grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark irroration ; the antemedial line very indistinet, with dark spot on costa, oblique to median nervure, where it is angled; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform only defined by a rectangular black-brown patch between them in cell; postmedial line very indistinct, with dark spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; faint traces of a subterminal line; cilia dark brown. Hind wing pale grey-brown. Hab. Russia, Urals; ? Armenta; W. Turxestan, Ala Tau; Moneoria, Urga, in Coll. Oberthur. Exp. 42 millim, EPISILIA. 471 *807. Episilia dissociata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 14.) Agrotis dissociata, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 58 (1899). ¢. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tegule with black medial line; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey mixed with dark brown, the costa, cell, and submedian feld to postmedial line rufous ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rather ill-defined, angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform small, with slight dark centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former somewhat elliptical ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line represented by a series of slight dentate dark marks. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous; cilia yellowish white; the underside paler, with dark discoidal point and curved diffused postmedial line. Hab. Paraeonta, Magellan, Punta Arenas (Vordensiidld), type T 3 in Mus. Stockholm. Lp. 34 millim. 808. Episilia interclusa. Psaphara interclusa, W1k. xi. 607 (1857). 3d. Pale grey-brown; palpi with the 2nd joint tinged with fuscous at sides, thorax with fuscous mixed. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black marks below costa and cell; the antemedial line angled inwards in cell and on Fig. 84.—Lpisilia inéerclusa, §. +. vein 1, almost obsolete except for black spots below costa and cell and a short curved part from latter tosubmedian fold; the stigmata obsolete, with a somewhat quadrate black mark in cell between orbicular and reniform, with a black point on costa above it; the postmedial line represented by a series of small black lunules, strongly bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4; a diffused fuscous subterminal shade angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of points. Hind wing pale, tinged with yellow-brown especially towards termen ; a terminal series of dark strie. Hab. N.W. Coast or Amenica (Kellett g Wood), 1 ¢ type. Ep. 44 millim. 472 NOCTUID®. 809. Episilia coppingeri. (Plate LXXII. fig. 15.) Pachnobia coppingeri, Butl. P. Z.8. 1881, p. 84. Head and thorax red-brown; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen red-brown mixed with black. Fore wing deep red-brown, the costal area rather paler rufous to the postmedial line; the veins with pale streaks ; indistinct waved subbasa] and antemedial dark lines, the former ending at submedian fold; claviform small, greyish; orbicular and reniform pale, the former elliptical, the latter small; traces of an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line defined by dentate dark brown marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with terminal series of dark striz ; the underside whiter, with black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. Paraconta, Straits of Magellan, Puerto Bueno (Coppinger), 1 g type. xp. 40 millim. 810, Episilia frigida. Agrotis frigida, Mab. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1885, p. 61; id. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Lép. p. 14, pl. ii. f. 2. ¢. Head and thorax bright rufous; mid and hind legs fuscous brown. Fore wing bright rufous, suffused with violaceous grey except on medial area, the terminal area irrorated with a few dark scales ; the subbasal line red-brown, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line slightly waved and strongly angled inwards on vein 1; the orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, the former small, its upper edge produced to a point on outer side; the post- medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian interspace ; the subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being rather more violaceous ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish, suffused with dark reddish brown ; cilia reddish ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and curved sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Paragonta, Mayne Harbour (J. J. Walker), 1 g, Orange Bay. “vp. 44 millim. Type f in Mus, Paris. 811. Episilia hilaris. (Plate LXXII. fig. 16.) Agrotis hilaris, Grote, Can, Ent. xii. p. 153 (1880). Agrotis bollii, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 160 (1888) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. ¢. Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark brown hair, tipped with white ; palpi black, tipped with whitish ; tegule with blackish medial band; tarsi black, ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with white; the antemedial line whitish, oblique, slightly sinuous; claviform repre- EPISILIA. 473 sented by a small black spot; orbicular and reniform small, black, defined by white, the former confluent with the antemedial line, the latter quadrate ; the postmedial line whitish, slightly curved, the area beyond it darker. Hind wing grey-brown, paler and tinged with ochreous towards base; the cilia white, brown at base. Underside of both wings brown, irrorated with white, an indistinct postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢ type. vp. 38 millim. 812. Episilia fungorum. (Plate LX.XII. fig. 17.) Choephora fungorum, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 200, pl. 3. f. 74 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. ¢. Head and thorax purple-red mixed with grey: antennae and abdomen bright ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with pale purplish red; a fine blackish antemedial line oblique from costa to below cell, where it is obtusely angled; a quadrate blackish spot in end of cell; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, where it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique. Hind wing ochreous suffused with purplish red, especially on terminal halt; a curved fuscous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States (Lewis), 1 S. Eup. 48 millim. *813. Episilia madida. (Plate LXXII. fig. 18.) Mesogona madida, Guen. Noct. i. p. 404, pl. 7, f. 3 (1852). Agrotis perotensis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 107 (1898). @. Head and thorax rufous, the hair tipped with ochreous ; antennze whitish, sides of palpi except at tips aud frons black; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale rutous, with slight dark irroration; an indistinct straight oblique subbasal line from costa to median nervure; an indistinct straight oblique antemedial line; orbicular and reniform yellow-brown with pale annuli, the former oblique, oblong, the latter moderate, rather con- stricted at middle; postmedial iine indistinct, pale, with series of dark points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute dark lunules and two fine brown lines through the cilia. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins brownish ; the cilia rufous ; the underside with small discoidal spot, the costal area irrorated with rufous. Hab. Mexico, type tT 2 in Mus. Paris, Las Vegas, type T 2 perotensis in Coll. Schaus. Hep. 46 millim. *814. Episilia molepa. (Plate LXXII. fig. 19.) Agrotis molepa, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). / ¢. Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales greyish at tips; abdomen whitish. Fore wing bright rufous; slightly irrorated 474 NOCTUIDAE. with .fuscous; the antemedial line represented by blackish spots on costa, median nervure, and vein 1; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform very small, with blackish outline; the post- medial line represented by a series of small black spots on the veins, excurved from costa to yein 4, then oblique; a series of black points on costa towards apex and termen, Hind wing pure white; the underside with some brown irroration on costal area, a discoidal point, and some points on termen towards apex. Hab, Brazit, Castro Parafia, type T ¢ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 40 millim. 815. Episilia straminea. (Plate LXXII. fig. 20.) Heliothis straminea, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 24. gd. Head and thorax ochreous, slightly tinged with rufous ; antenne dark red-brown; abdomen ochreous, ventrally tinged with pink towards extremity. Fore wing ochreous; the costal edge brown ; antemedial red-brown points on the veins; reniform prominent, brown, placed on an obsolescent oblique brown line expanding into a patch on inner margin; the postmedial line represented by a very indistinct series of points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, a more prominent spot on inner margin; the subterminal line represented by an oblique bar from costa, then by a series of obsolescent spots in the interspaces ; a fine terminal brown line; cilia pinkish at tips. Hind wing dark red-brown; cilia yellowish at base, pinkish at tips. Underside of fore wing suffused with brown and with waved postmedial and subterminal lines; hind wing ochreous, with slightly waved pinkish medial and postmedial lines. Hab. W. Cuma, Hou-kou, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 42 millim. Secr. II. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apical part serrate. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the orbicular large, V-shaped. herrich schefferi. b. Fore wing with the orbicular narrow, oblique. a, Fore wing with grey fascia on median ME )VALIR:) paocagooobRkconoone aban osochascoosecoAschc vitiata. b, Fore wing without grey fascia on median NELVULOM devssceacceedencesces ct tedomssececesisastart digna. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the cell black between the stigmata. a’. Fore wing with large black patch beyond CheicellQee sere seneeesaceeeeese te eeeecesetae post fusca. b'. Fore wing without black patch beyond the cell. a?. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, OPEN ADOVE...-2...-r-eseneeeer aes et eee oe tibetana. . Fore wing with the orbicular round. a, Fore wing with the subterminal line INGUStIN Gls) eenesacReescaeccemebeecee atriee hesitans. b?. Fore wing with distinct pale sub- idyecauborll, Inve): pymqcodopopndnanosoaca0neAcb: ochracea ab. ruptistriga. Or EPISILIA. A7 b, Fore wing with the cell not black between the stigmata, a’. Kore wing grey-brown. a>. Head and tegule greyish, contrasting. a®. Fore wing with the cell suffused with rufous before and between the stigmata. infantilis, b°. Fore wing with the cell not suffused with TAN) COWS Snabenmannpacdecaetonan pais aie dale seas nea elets Jaceta, b?. Head and tegule concolorous. a®, Fore wing with prominent pale subterminal UTI Cee see ee a oes aot onion tals etyeeseeeuisueret sce salicarwn. b3, Fore wing with the subterminal line ATNGAS GIN Chills oesatens sisctosivee «sie sees steseescinew er: manifesta. b1, Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with red-brown. a?, Fore wing with distinct pale subterminal line. ochracea. b*, Fore wing with the subterminal line in- distinct, dark. a®, Fore wing with the terminal area grey ... ocacensis. b°, Fore wing with the terminal area con- colorous. a‘. Fore wing with the postmedial line distinct, dentate. a>. Hind wing with the cilia rufous ...... olivascens. }°. Hind wing with the cilia whitish. a°®, Fore wing greyish olive tinged with MULOUS Home at eeecetiercee es ccGase acne hersi. b8. Fore wing pale rufous ..........0..6 coturnicula. 6*, Fore wing with the postmedial line EMbsIKO}G SOE) Gacooodenboppecbvoocdocadoas00 littoralis. ce’. Fore wing with the subterminal line obsolete, a*, Fore wing suffused with red-brown......... monochromata, b®, Fore wing brownish ochreous, the margins Timped Wath TULOUS! fon. .ccners.sersccrsascees xanthostola, c?, Fore wing orange-yellow, striated and partly suffused with rufous ..............066+ colima. c'. Fore wing pale yellow. a*, Fore wing irrorated with brown ...........-... constanti. +?, Fore wing not irrorated with brown ........ . serraticornis. d'. Fore wing grey-white. a?, Fore wing with transverse lines ......... sesso. SEMESCENS. 67, Fore wing without lines............s.sesseceeseees cungessi. 816. Episilia herrich-schefferi. Agrotis herrich-schefferi, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 191 (1895) ; id. Rom. Mém. ix. p- 206, pl. 13. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. dg. Head ochreous, the antenne dark brown; thorax reddish brown, with the front of tegule white and some white hair in front of patagia and on dorsum; legs fuscous ; abdomen ochreous brown and fuscous, the anal tuft rutous. Fore wing grey, suffused with ochreous brown; a subbasal triangular black patch above vein 1; the antemedial line oblique, slightly sinuous, black, and obsolete except between cell and inner margin; claviform with its extremity defined by black; orbicular and reniform whitish, defined by black in the cell before and between them and beyond the latter, the former open above, V-shaped; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa to just beyond 476 NOCTUIDE. reniform and inwards at lower angle of cell, then oblique to join the antemedial line at inner margin, and with some black suffusion on its inner side; the subterminal line slightly sinuous and formed of minute dentate black spots; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with dark terminal line; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab, Moneorta, Changhai Mts., Uliassutai, Urga, 1 g. Lup. 32 millim. 817. Episilia vittata. (Plate LXXII. fig. 21.) Agrotis vittata, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 314, pl. 5. f. 15 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. Agrotis agama, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 315 (1895). 3. Head and thorax red-brown; palpi black at sides, grey at tips; tegule grey, with black medial line and the tips black ; abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing reddish brown, the costal edge darker; the costal area whitish at base; the subcostal and median nervures streaked with white, the latter with whitish fascia below it, its lower edge defined by black and dentate at middle ; the ante- and postmedi: al lines obsolete ; the cell filled in with hie ; the orbicular and reniform whitish, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter confluent with the submedian fascia ; the subterminal line formed by a series of small maculate marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing pale brownish. Hab, Tisur, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo, wp. 34 milim. 818. Episilia digna. Raddea digna, Aiph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 450 (1892); id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 35, pl. 3. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 6. Head and tegule rufous, antenne with the shaft whitish, the tegule with some grey at base; thorax purplish red, slightly mixed silk grev ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish grey, slightly irrorated with rufous ; the costal edge rufous; a waved rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with a black streak from its lower extremity to near antemedial line, with some whitish above it and rufous below it; the antemedial line rufous, very oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then oblique to submedian fold where it is acutely angled, then very oblique inwardly to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner mar gin; claviform small, rufous, slightly defined by whitish above ‘and at extremity ; the orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and white annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique, somewhat wedge-shaped, the latter angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them deep rufous, the interspaces just beyond the cell and below it to submedian fold suffused with rufous ; the postmedial line rufous, oblique from costa to vein 7, dentate to vein 2, angled inwards in EPISILIA, 477 submedian fold and outwards aboye inner margin ; the subterminal line rufous, diffused on inner side, oblique from costa to vein 6 near postmedial line, then curved, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards above inner margin, the area beyond it rather pinker with a fine dark terminal line; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing pale flesh-colour tinged with fuscous except at termen; cilia pinkish; the underside with the costal area suffused with blood-red. Hab. Trer, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo. Z#xp. 30 millim, 819. Episilia postfusca. (Plate LXXII. fig. 22. Agrotis postfusca, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 508 (1896). 3. Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with olive; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; frons and tegulee with some dark- brown hair; pectus and legs dark brown; abdomen brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish, irrorated with fuscous and tinged with olive-yellow towards costa and inner margin ; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique double, waved, antemedial line, strongly angled inward on vein 1 and with blackish spot beyond it on costa; claviform only marked by some black scales at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, the former oblique rounded, the cell before and between them black; an indistinct oblique waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the area from end of cell to subterminal line black from costa to vein 3; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia yellowish. Hind wing deep fuscous ; the cilia yellowish and fuscous ; the underside whitish, the costal area suffused with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Cryton, Hadamulla (Green), 1 ¢ type. Hep. 34 millim. *820, Episilia tibetana. (Plate LXXVILI. fig. 1.) Agrotis tibetana, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 306 (1825) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. ¢. Head and thorax purplish brown, the hairs tipped with grey ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen reddish brown with pale segmental lines, the ventral surface darker. Fore wing brown strongly suffused with purplish grey ; the subbasal line represented by indistinct double striz from costa; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct except at costa, angled outwards below costa and slightly inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform large, with fine white annuli defined by black, the former V-shaped, open above, the latter indistinctly defined except on inner side; the cell black-brown before and between the stigmata and below orbi- cular, shading into diffused red-brown below the cell ; postmedial 478 NOCTUID®. line minutely dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, slightly defined by brown on inner side and with a black bar before it on costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white irrorated with brown, the apex slightly suffused with brown ; the underside more strongly irrorated, the costal area tinged with vinous red, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Tiser, Kuku-noor in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. Lup. 38 millim, 821. Episilia hesitans. (Plate LXXII. fig. 23.) Agrotis hesitans, Wik. x. 329 (1856) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 63. dg. Head and thorax pale grey-brown, the hairs blackish at tips; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, irrorated sparsely with black; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the ante- medial line by small spots on costa and below cell; the orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by rather X-shaped black spots on their inner edge, the former round, the latter moderate; the postmedial line black, minutely crenulate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of ceil; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown, rather paler towards base and inner area; the cilia pale, with a brown line through them. Hab. U.S.A., Rocky Mts. (Doubleday), 1 $ type. vp. 33 millim. *822,. Episilia infantilis. Agrotis infantilis, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 305 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 3. Head and thorax white, the former tinged with ochreous on vertex ; palpi, except at tips, and sides of frons black ; thorax pale grey-brown; abdomen grey, the ventral surface irrorated with brown, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with purplish rufous ; subbasal line represented by double striz from costa ; the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, with prominent black striz from costa; orbicular pale, oblique, elliptical ; reniform narrow, with fuscous centre and indistinct greyish annulus; the cell before and between the stigmata and the area just below the cell suffused with rufous ; postmedial line dentate, with pale points beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian fold; the veins of terminal area with dark streaks; the subterminal line pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous EPISILIA. 479 brown ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal 5 Brey, : ; lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. Trser, Kuku-noor in Coll, Piingeler, Amdo. Evp. 38 millim. 823. Episilia faceta. Noctua faceta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. x. 2, p- 99 (1835); Mill. Mém. Soc. Nat. Cannes, 1879, pl. 7. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. Noctua variicollis, Delahaye, Bull. Soc. Fr, 1886, p. 63; Oberth. Et. Ent. xii. p. 30, pl. 7. f. 53a; Mab. Nov. Lep. p. 68, pl. 11. f. 6 (1892). 3. Head and tegule red-brown largely mixed with white; thorax deep chestnut-brown ; palpi chestnut, white at extremity ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with grey ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and with some reddish marks beyond it; an irregularly waved black antemedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former small, round, the latter with black centre and placed on a brown line which is bent inwards to costa and incurved in submedian fold ; postmedial line fine, black, highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line in- distinct, diffused, grey, defined by a dark patch before it on costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous-white suffused with fuscous-brown especially towards termen ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside ochreous-white irrorated with black-brown, a discoidal bar, dentate postmedial line, and terminal lunulate line. Hab. S.K. France; Corstca; Spary, Grenada (A. H. Jones), 1 S ; Portrueat; S. Irary, Capri (S. Browne), 1 ¢ ; AtaeRta,l ¢ ; Morocco, Tangier (Meade-Waldo),2 $. vp, 34 millim. 824. Episilia salicarum. Hydrecia salicarum, Wik. xi. 717 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68, Agrotis claviformis, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 162 (1874). Pachnobia orilliana, Grote, Can, Ent. vii. pp. 154 & 227 (1875). Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey ; tegulie with a white Fig. 85.—Lpisilia salicarum, d. }. line at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown mixed with dark brown, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing rufous suffused with grey ; a subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial 480 NOCTUIDAE, line oblique, slightly angled inwards on vein 1, with the rather elongate rufous claviform stigma on its outer edge ; orbicular and reniform grey, with brown centres and rufous outlines, the former round, moderate, the latter large; the medial shade with its inner edge angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale grey, slightly angled inwards at vein 7 and excurved below middle, with a ferruginous shade on its inner edge expanding into a spot at costa and the area beyond it darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing reddish brown slightly mixed with grey; the cilia whitish. Underside grey irrorated with brown; hind wing with discoidal spot, both wings with sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Caxava, Hudson’s Bay, (Bramston) 4 2 type, (Vorman) 1g; U.S.A., 1 2 type orillana, Maine, Massachusetts. yp. 34 millim. 825. Episilia manifesta. (Plate LX-XILI. fig. 24.) Agrotis manifesta, Morr. Proe. Bost. Soc. xviii. p. 116 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 62. Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey ; palpi black at sides except at tips. Fore wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular a small black spot, reniform a small lunule; the post- medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct greyish defined by slight fuscous suffusion on inner side, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside greyer thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a small black disccidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Jersey, Newark, 1 9, New York, Long Island. wp. 36 millim, 826. Episilia ochracea. Oxira ochracea, W\k. xxxii. 657 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182. Hadena ruptistriga, Wik. xxxili. 739 (1865). Mythimna deparca, But). A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 858 (1879). Graphiphora frontalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 835 (1884); Hmpsn, II. Het. ix. pl. 161. ff. 20, 21- Agrotis stictica, Pouj. Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr. (6) vii. p. Ixviii (1887). Graphiphora varia, Swinh. P. Z.S8. 1889, p. 412. 3g. Head and thorax brownish ochreous to bright ferruginous, dark rufous, or olive-brown ; palpi deep chocolate at sides except at tips ; pectus and legs chocolate and black, the spurs and tarsal joints ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous tinged with ferruginous, rufous, olive-brown, or grey-brown ; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with black points in the cell before and beyond it; a double waved antemedial EPISILTA. 481 line; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by fuscous, the former round, the latter usually with fuscous pateh in its lower part, the lower part of cell before and between the stigmata often with black fascia; an indistinct waved medial line angled outwards on median nervure ; the post- medial line dentate and produced to grey and black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line ochreous, angled slightly outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, usually very minutely dentate and with series of dark points on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous or red-brown; the underside paler, with dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Q. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker, usually purplish brown or dark grey. Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Pryer), 5 3 type deparca, Kiushu, 2 3, Oiwake (Leech), 1 $ ; W. Cutna, Ta-chien-ln (Pratt), 1 6; Trser, Moupin; Kasumrr, Scinde Valley, 1 9, Goorais Valley (Leech), 19, Narkundah (McArthur), 1 ¢, 3 9, Kokser, 2 ¢, 1 9, Jalauri Pass, 2 6; Kutv, Sultanpur (G. Young), 4¢, 19; Punsas, Thundiani (Yerbury), 2 3, Handar, | 9, Rawul Pindee, 1 9, Dharmsila (Hocking), 5 $,11 9, Umballa,1 g,1 2 type varia; S. Inpta, Palni Hills, 7000 ft. (Campbell), 1 9 ; Cryton (Green), 3 3, 3 9 type (Templeton), 1 Q type ruptistriga, Hap. 32-40 millim. *827, Episilia ocacensis. Agrotis okakensis, Pack. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 88 (1867); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 64. Rather pale rust-red. Fore wing with the costal area irrorated with grey to the postmedial line ; the terminal area steel- -grey ; the lines ingle, brown ; the antemedial line interrupted, erect; clavi- form obsolete ; enbiculae and reniform large, irregular, with pale annuli; postmedial line distinct, sinuous ; subterminal line only defined by the grey terminal area, twice "dentate outwardly, then sinuous. Hind wing brownish grey, with a fuscous discoidal spot ; the underside grey with reddish irror ation, a dark discoidal spot. Hab. Canava, Labrador; U.S.A., New Hampshire, Mt. Wash- ington. Hep, 34 millim. This species is unknown to me, 828. Episilia olivascens. (Plate LX XII. fig. 25.) Agrotis olivascens, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182 (1894). Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous tinged with olive; palpi chestnut except at tips. Fore wing rufous suffused with olive- ochreous; the veins slightly streaked with grey; an indistinct rufous streak below base of cell; subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete; orbicular and reniform indistinct, only defined by the cell VOL. IV. a. 482 NOCTUID®. before and below the orbicular and between it and reniform being rufous, the former rounded, the latter with slight fuscous mark at its lower extremity ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; the subterminal line very indistinct, waved, the veins beyond it with slight dark streaks; a terminal series of points. Hind wing pale fuscous, the cilia rufous; the underside pale rufous irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab, Trner, Yatung (Hobson), 2 ¢: Srxut (wes), 2 9 type. Exp. 34-40 millim. Type f ¢ in Coll. Elwes. 829. Episilia hersi. Agrotis herzi, Christ. Tris, vi. p. 90 (1893); Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. pl. 14. f.7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. $. Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi rufous, pale at tips; abdomen greyish fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pale olive grey-brown, suffused in parts with rufous especially towards termen ; a waved rufous antemedial line, oblique from costa to submedian fold; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former round, the latter suffused with rufous ; an oblique diffused line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the post- medial line slightly waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line slightly waved, only defined by dark suffusion on its inner edge; a dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia yellowish white: the underside greyish suffused with fuscous, and with rufous towards costa, a dark discoidal lunule and traces of curved postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab. Moneorta, Uliassutai, 1 ¢, Changai Mts.; S.E. Superra. Exp. 32 millim, 830. Episilia coturnicula. (Plate LXXIT. fig. 26.) to} a Agrotis coturnicula, Gres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 219; Staud. Cat. Lep. pu. p 142. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown with an olive tinge; palpi bright rufous, pale at tips. Fore wing pale rufous; the subbasal line represented by a rufous point on costa; the antemedial line rufous, angled outwards below costa, in sub- median fold and above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, large, the former irregularly rounded, the latter with rufous centre; a medial shade angled at lower angle of cell; postmedial line produced to slight points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, with darker rufous patch on its inner side at costa, slightly angled at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a fine terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base and inner margin ; cilia yellowish white; the underside whitish, the costal EPISILIA. 483 area suffused with rufous, the terminal area with brown, traces of a curved postmedial line. Hab. Amvurtann, Potrovka, 1 ¢. vp. 36 millim. 831. Episilia littoralis. (Plate LXXII. fig. 27.) Agrotis littoralis, Pack. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 386 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 62. Pseudorthosia pectinata, Grote, Proce. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phil. p. 207 (1974). Puchnobia ferruginoides, Sinith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 56 (1890). ¢. Head and thorax pale ferruginous ; abdomen ochreous irro- rated with fuscous brown. Fore wing pale ferruginous ; traces of an oblique antemedial line; the orbicular very indistinct, round, with ferruginous annulus; reniform obscure, small, on the rather oblique ferruginous medial shade; traces of a curved postmedial line; the subterminal line defined by a curved ferruginous band on its inner edge. Hind wing fuscous brown, with traces of a dark discoidal spot ; cilia pale. 2 with the markings more distinct. Hab. Canada, ieipeedon Caribou L.; U.S.A., Montana, Black Hills, Colorado, Hall Valley, 1 ¢ type pectinata, Exp. 38 aril 332. Episilia monochromatea. (Plate LXXII. fig. 28.) Agrotis monochromatea, Morr. Proe, Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 165 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 62. ®. Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen grey, the extremity rufous. Fore wing fuscous grey, entirely and evenly suffused with bright red-brown ; an indistinct curved dark antemedial line ; the postmedial line oblique from costa just beyond middle to vein 4 where it is angled, then strongly incurved and slightly angled out- wards on vein 1; no trace of the stigmata or other markings. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with rufous, traces of a diffused postmedial line more distinct towards costa. Hab. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Durham, in Coll. J. B. Smith, Massachusetts. vp, 32 millim. 833. Episilia xanthostola. (Plate LX.XIT. fig. 29.) Agrotis vanthostola, Mab. Bull, Soe. Philom. (7) ix. p. 61 (1885). Agrotis dalei, Butl, A. M. N. H. (6) xu. p. 207 (1893). ¢. Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; palpi black at sides except towards extremity ; extremity of Ist joint of antennz black ; pectus blackish in front; legs strongly irrorated with black ; abdo- men ochreous white tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft and ‘vetitral surface ferruginous red, Fore wing pale brownish ochreous sparsely striated with black, the margins tinged with rufous; the markings obsolete except a faint trace of the reniform and the postmedial line, which is represented by a series of black points on the veins, PAA 484 NOCTUID%. curved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; a terminal series of black points; cilia rufous. Hind wing white, thickly irrorated with fuscous brown and suffused with fuscous on costal and terminal areas; cilia reddish ochreous. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous ; hind wing white, the costal area brownish irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. Fatxtanp Is., Darwin Harbour (Dr. Dale), 1 3 type dalet, (Vallentin) 1 8; Paraconta, Santa Cruz, type fT ¢ in Mus, Paris. Exp, 44 millim. *834. Episilia colima. (Plate LXXII. fig. 30.) Carneades colima, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 109 (1898). $. Head and thorax yellow, the latter tinged with bright rufous ; palpi blackish at sides, pink in front; pectus with the hair pink; legs blackish ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface purplish pink, Fore wing orange-yellow, suffused with rufous on inner arca and terminal half and striated with rufous; the subbasal line repre- sented by dark points below costa and cell; a dentate antemedial line angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold, and above margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform rufous with yellow annuli, the former elliptical, inwardly oblique, the latter rather 2-shaped, its upper extremity slightly ineurved ; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then, oblique; the termen rather darker and with a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing semihyalino white, the veins, inner margin, and cilia tinged with ochreous; a terminal series of dark points; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a discoidal point and postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab, Mexico, Colima, type ¢ ¢ in Coll. Schaus. vp. 46 millim. *835. Episilia constanti. Agrotis constanti, Mill. Icon. i. p. 165, pl. 9. ff. 1, 2 (1860); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 3. Pale yellow. Fore wing with some darker irroration, most prominent on medial area; some dark strie from basal part of costa; a fine antemedial line angled outwards in snbmedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very faintly indicated ; a dentate postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a punctiform subterminal line and a terminal series of points. Hind wing white, the termen and cilia yellowish. Under- side of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. Hab, France, Ardéche. wp. 42 millim. This species is unknown to me. EPISILIA, 485 836. Episilia serraticornis. (Plate LX XII. fig. 31.) Agrotis serraticornis, Staud. Iris, x. p. 274 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 3g. Head and thorax sulphur-yellow; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing sulphur-yellow ; the subbasal line represented by a rufous striga on costa, the antemedial line by a rufous striga on costa, an excurved portion in submedian inter- space and a very indistinct part angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform a small brown ocellus ; postmedial line minutely dentate, rufous, excurved below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by an indis- tinct series of dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of minute points; cilia brown at tips. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous. Hab. Spatn, Castille, Cuenca (Korb),1 3,29. Exp. 42 millim. 837. Episilia senescens. (Plate LX-XII. fig. 32.) Agrotis senescens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 416; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Agrotis senilis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 1. Head and thorax grey, the hairs pencilled with brown ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with brown; an indistinct oblique brown antemedial line, with slight dark streaks on its inner side at the veins; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, the former open V-shaped ; the postmedial line indistinct and produced to points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the sub- terminal line indistinct, siightly angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing pale grey-brown. Ab. 1. senilis. Head, thorax, and fore wing whiter, the last with the markings indistinct, the medial area tinged with ferruginous red in and below cell, and some dentate ferruginous marks before the subterminal line. Hab. W. Turkestan, Fergana, Tura, 2d, 2 2; W. Srperia, Altai, 3 6; E. Turxesran, Kuldja, 1 ¢,19; Amurtann,1 o, 19. exp, 40 millim. 838. Episilia cungessi. Agrotis kungessi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 62, pl. 1. f. 40 (1882) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Head and thorax white, palpi and tegule slightly mixed with brown ; fore femora brownish above; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing white. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous, and with traces of sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except towards margins ; hind wing white. Hab. W. Turxvstan, Tura, 1 ¢, 1 9; E. Turxestan, Kuldja, 146,19. Hep. 40 millim. 486 NOCTUID. Secr, IIT. Antenne of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, V-shaped ......... panda. 6, Fore wing with the orbicular elliptical. gi. Hore, wines browne scnsserseslasaeacesenece seers Sessesenece bistrigata. bY. Hore: Wino yew yuna. nase sossesesesaso=se eeceeseece“ ecco terrifica. B. Fore wing with ochreous streak below base of cell, con- fluent with the claviform. a. Fore wing with the reniform small ................2.0.++ elevata. 6. Fore wing with the reniform large ....................+0+- tecta. C. Fore wing without black or ochreous streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the costal area ochreous to postmedial line. a’. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on MeECIAN NERVUTE! jeeeeecchnceoecsstemseasncndactorseecmeses retracta. b1, Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on MMECIAM NELVUNG! secs sosee Meseceere seed casa eee flavicosta. b, Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a. Fore wing with black bar from costa before sub- terminal Vine: gd censsseces sass cinta een reetanee Sishi. b', Fore wing without black bar from costa before sub- terminal line. a*, Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with red- brown. a. Fore wing with prominent grey annuli to stigmata. a‘, Fore wing with the orbicular V- or U-shaped, OpenjabOvereescstsemreasheccee es eeeseemeerns cinerea. }*, Fore wing with the orbicular more rounded. fes¢iva. 4%. Fore wing without prominent grey annuli to stigmata. a’. Fore wing with black patch in cell between thetstiomatar sleep eden asosecseaeasescteosceens ceramophea. b*. Fore wing with the cell dark rufous............ tenuis. c4, Fore wing with the cel] concolorous. a, Head and thorax red-brown; fore wing ochreous; the medial area suffused with TEG-bLOWM" [Khoo sesecokoss cece secenesceenes loresi. 6°, Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous. desti¢uta. c. Head, thorax, and fore wing dark red- IDNOWM eh ss secsscenale-cacemensnasedecs sees eee homochroma. b?. Fore wing grey-brown. a’, Fore wing with the lines single ......... nga000008 cinerascens. 68. Fore wing with the lines double. a‘. Fore wing with grey centre to orbicular...... nyctymerina. b+, Fore wing with the orbicular almost entirely flesh-colougeereecaeeeee cae ceeeso eraser similis. c*, Fore wing pale yellow ........ spbbeaonoadsqq8660090000 psammoda. 839. Episilia panda. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 4.) Agrotis panda, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 33. 3. Head rufous; thorax clothed with rufous and grey hair; abdomen brown tinged with rufous, Fore wing purplish grey, the medial area largely suffused with ferruginous ; the subbasal line ferruginous, from costa to submedial fold; a fine pale streak in basal half of submedian fold defined by black below, then by ferru- ginous aboye vein 1; the antemedial line only defined by the EPISILIA. 487 ferruginous suffusion beyond it, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform ferruginous defined by grey, the former small, very oblique, triangular, the latter indistinct and strongly angled inwards on median nervure, the ccll before, below orbicular, ‘and between the stigmata suffused with blackish ; the postmedial line rather iul-defined, strongly dentate, angled inwards in submedian fold ; the subterminal line only detined by the ferruginous suffusion before it, obliquely ineurved from costa to vein 38, then angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of ferruginous points. Hind wing pale brown; the underside pale, with the costal area suffused with rufous. Hab. W. Cura, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 d type. “vp. 34 millim. *840. Episilia bistrigata. (Plate LXXIIL. fig. 5.) Agrotis bistrigaia, Mssn. Stibel’s Reise, p. 142, pl. 6. f. 13 (1890). @. Head and thorax dark red-brown; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line ; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing red-brown tinged with purplish red; a black fascia below the cell to middle of wing; the subbasal and ante- medial lines’ obsolete; the cell filled in with black; orbicular purplish brown, small, elliptical; reniform small, open above and below, defined on outer side by black ; postmedial line very indis- tinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line only indicated by the area beyond it being blackish, angled outwards to near termen at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, 2 and at tornus. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with brown, the veins brown; cilia whitish ; underside whitish. Hab, Coromb1s ; Ecuavor, Loja, in Coll. Schaus. wp. 36 millim. 841. Episilia terrifica. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 6.) Setagrotis terrifica, Smith, Ent. News. Philad. 1893, p. 98, pl. 6. f. 2; id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 42, pl. 2. f. 2 do. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegulee with blackish medial line ; abdomen grey irrorated with migeat and the ventral surface w ith black. Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown and fuscous; a slight black streak in base of submedian fold; claviform elongate, whitish slightly defined by black; orbicnlar and reniform white defined by black, the former elliptical, open above, the cell before and between them suffused with black ; the postmedial line somewhat dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved ; the subterminal line represented by a somewhat diffused brownish shade, slightly curved towards costa, then oblique; a terminal series of black points; cilia white, with a fuscous line through them. Hind wing white; the costal area slightly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 488 NOCTUID 2, with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab. US.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 $. Exp 36 millim, *842, Episilia elevata. Pachnobia elevata, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 104 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 64. gd. Reddish grey. Fore wing with the lines single ; subbasal line incomplete, ill-defined; antemedial line erect, rather even, excuryed above inner margin, interrupted; claviform a yellowish streak defined by black and produced as a yellowish streak to base ; orbicular and reniform pale grey defined by black scales, the former elongate, produced on inner and outer sides, the latter a small lunule; postmedial line entire, rather even, bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then rather unevenly oblique; subterminal line represented by a series of brown dashes in the interspaces on a greyish shade; an interrupted terminal line. Hind wing whitish, tinged with fuscous towards apex; the underside whitish with dark irroration, a discoidal lunule and diffused postmedial line, Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce). Exp. 35millim. This species is unknown to me, 843. Episilia tecta. Noctua carnea, Treitsch, Schmett. Eur. vy. 2, p. 216 (1825), nee Thunbg. Noctua tecta, Hiitbn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. {. 877 (1827); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188. Noctua ampla, Hibn. Schmett, Eur., Noct. f. 425 (1827). Head and thorax ferruginous; abdomen yellow-brown, with the hair at sides and the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ferruginous, Fig. 86.— Hpisilia tecta, S. 4. suffused with grey on basal, costal, and terminal areas ; the ante- medial line indistinct, oblique, waved, defined by grey on inner side; claviform elongate, linear, grey defined by rufous; the cell filled in with rufous, defining the grey orbicular and reniform stigmata, the former open above and somewhat diamond-shaped, the latter constricted at middle; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved; the subterminal line indistinct and slightly angled outwards at veins 7 and 4; a terminal series of brown strie. Hind wing pale yellow- PPISILIA. 489 brown, with a fine brown terminal line; the cilia pale; the under- side with small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Antenne of male very minutely serrate. Hab. Scanpvrnavia; Russta, Livonia,1 ¢,2 2. Hp. 40 millim. Larva. Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 367; Sandberg, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 258 (1885). Head chestnut-brown, with dark reticulations and dark margins on inner side of hemispheres; body reddish brown thickly striated with black ; dorsal line fine, white, on abdominal segments edged with black ; segmental incisions almost black ; subdorsal lines indis- tinct ; lateral area darkest; spiracles black with white centres ; subbasal area flesh-coloured with black warts. Food-plants: Vac- cinium myrtillus and uliginosum, Alchemilla, Betula, Pupa dark brown, with the cremaster black. *844, Episilia retracta, n.sp. (Plate LX. XIII. fig. 7.) 3. Head and tegule rufous, the latter with some grey near base and grey tips; thorax olive-brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen rufous. Fore wing dark olive-brown, thickly irrorated with blue- grey ; the costal area pale rufous irrorated with grey ; the cell black-brown ; traces of an antemedial line from submedian fold to inner margin; clavyiform a narrow pale rufous streak ; orbicular and reniform pale rufous defined by whitish avd confluent with costal area, the former very narrow and oblique, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median nervure to middle of cell; the post- medial line double, minutely waved, filled in with grey, bent out- wards below costa to long beyond cell, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a curved dark subterminal line; cilia brown, Hind wing brown, tinged with fuscous on costal and terminal areas ; cilia pale brown. Hab. Stxuim (Moller), type ¢ g¢ in Coll. Elwes. Lup. 30 millim, 845. Episilia flavicosta. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 8.) Noctua flavicosta, Wllgrn. Ent. Mon. iy. p. 169 (1860). Ochropleura magellanica, Butl. P. Z. 8, 1881, p. 88. 9. Head and thorax bright rufous; palpi and frons more ochreous ; legs and abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing dark red-brown, sometimes with some dark irroration ; the costal area ochreous to beyond middle ; the lines obsolete, some- times represented by dark points on costa; orbicular and reniform ochreous, confluent with the costal area, the former elliptical ; the postmedial line sometimes traceable, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a terminal series of blackish points sometimes present. Hind wing pale suffused with reddish brown ; cilia ochreous ; the underside pale, the costal area suffused with reddish brown; a discoidal lunule and sinuous post- medial line. 490 NOCTUID®. Hab, Pavaconta, Sandy Point (Cumningham), 1 2 type magel- lanica, Latitude Cove (Coppinger), 1 9, Cockle Cove, 1 2, Puerto Bueno, 1 2, Wolsey Sound, 1 9. Lup. 44-48 millim. Type Tin Mus. Stockholm. 846, Episilia fishi. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 9.) Agrotis fishii, Grote, Bull. Geol. Sury. iy. p. 175 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 64. Head and thorax purplish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; autenn with the shaft whitish at base; abdomen red-brown mixed with white, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing purplish brown suffused with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; a waved dark sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved dark antemedial line; claviform obsolete ; orbicular marked by a few grey and dark scales ; reniform with a patch of greenish-grey scales in centre and some dark scales on outline; the medial shade oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled, then inwardly oblique: the postmedial line crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line represented by a sinuous series of grey and dark points and a dark bar from costa to vein 6; a fine waved terminal line; cilia rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia rufous; the underside greyish irrorated thickly with rufous, and with indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Oldtown, 1 g, 2 9, type. Evp. 40 millim. 847. Episilia cinerea. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 10.) Pachnobia cinerea, Staud. Cat. Lep. p. 114 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am, p. 64. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish brown. Fore wing purplish brown, tinged with grey on basal aud terminal areas; the antemedial line greyish, indistinct, oblique, waved ; the claviform wedge-shaped, greyish with dark outline; the cell filled in with black-brown or dark red-brown defining the orbicular and reniform, which have brown centres and greyish outlines, the former open above and somewhat V- or U-shaped, the latter moderate ; the post- medial line minutely dentate, dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by the greyer terminal area, slightly angled cutwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein3 ; a fine dark terminal line and grey points on extremity of veins. Hind wing yellowish brown, with indistinct dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line; a fine dark terminal line; the cilia pale. Hab. Canava, Labrador ( Gerhard), Zeller, Frey, Grote, and Leech Colls., 6 ¢. ap. 38 millim. EPISILIA. 491 848. Episilia festiva. Noctua festiva, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 114, 467; Godt. Cép. Fr. v. p. 186, pl. 61. ff. 5, 6. Noctua primule, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 136. ff. 5, 6 (1786) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Noctua mendica, Fabr. Ent, Syst. iii. 2, p. 93 (1793). Noctua subrusa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 227 (1809). Noctua congener, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 618 (1827). Noctua conflua, Treit. Schmett. Eur. vi. 1, p. 405 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vil. pl. 109. f. 7; Herr.-Schaff. Eur, Schmett., Noct. f. 154; Weir, Entom. 1884, p. 2, pl. i. ff. 8-10. Hadena borealis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 941 (1840). Cerastis diducta, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 946 (1840). Agrotis ignicola, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 455 (1845). Ayrotis thulei, Staud. Tris, iv. p. 266 (1891). Agrotis lamentanda, Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 330, pl. 14. f. 6 (1897). Head and thorax pale olive-brown to red-brown ; palpi dark red- brown, pale at tips ; pectus, legs, and abdomen red-brown, the last dorsally greyish tinged with fuscous. Fore wing greyish ochreous tinged with rufous ; a fine waved subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold, with a dark point usually present beyond it in cell; a fine waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1, then bent outwards above inner margin, a rufous shade on its inner side; claviform with its extremity defined by black; orbicular and reniform more or less strongly defined by brown or blackish, the former somewhat quadrangular and open above and below, the latter with its centre brownish, constricted at middle and often angled inwards on median nervure, the space between them suffused with rufous or dark brown; an oblique slightly waved shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area beyond it suffused with rufous to the subterminal line, which is pale and excurved between veins 7 and 2; a terminal series of small dark lunules, Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous brown especially towards termen ; a terminal series of dark strive ; cilia ochreous or pinkish; the underside cchreous, the costal area suffused with pink, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line produced to slight streaks on the veins. Ab. 1. lamentanda. Paler and more uniformly ochreous.— Urga, Kamschatka. Ab. 2. conflua. Rather smaller, greyer and duller in tone, the markings less distinct.—N. Europe. Ab. 3. thulei. Darker, with the cell before and between the stigmata wholly or with its lower part blackish.—Shetland Is. Hab, Brirar, Shetland Is.(Salvage), Scotland, England, N. Wales, Leech Coll.; France; Gprmany, Silesia, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Swirzertanp; Itaty, Piedmont; Icrnanp, Zeller Coll. ; Norway, Frey & Leech Colls. ; Fintanp, Leech Coll. ; Russia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals; Armenia; W. Srperia, Altai; W. Turxestan, Issyk-kul ; K. Turxesrayn, lli; Tiser, Kuku-noor, Amdo, Lap, 30-36 millim. 492 NOCTUID.E. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 103; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 74, pl. 146. Pale ochreous, grey-greenish, or purplish brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, indistinct ; subdorsal line pale or whitish, edged above by a series of thick dark or blackish marks; sometimes a lateral series of oblique dark marks; subspiracular line pale; head brown, with dark marks. Food-plants: Rubus, Rumeaw, Saliv. 8-5, 849. Episilia ceramophea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 11.) Agrotis ceramophea, Meyr. Faun. Hawai. i. p. 151 (1899). 3. Head and thorax bright chestnut-brown ; tegule with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen paler chestnut. Fore wing bright chestnut-brown; the antemedial line hardly traceable, excurved above inner margin ; claviform small, fuscous ; orbicular and reniform small, fuscous, with some whitish scales on edges of former and inner edge of latter and a black-brown patch between them ; postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing whitish suffused with chestnut-brown, and with darker terminal line; the underside paler, with black discoidal spot and sinuous post- medial series of short streaks on the veins. Hab, Hawau, Kilauea (Perkins), 1 ¢ type. Hvp. 42 millim. 850. Episilia tenuis. Anchocelis tenuis, Butl. Ill. Het. B. M. vii. p. 57, pl. 127. f. 12 (1889) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p, 184. d. Head and thorax red-brown, the hairs sometimes tipped with grey ; abdomen ochreous brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing purplish red; the costal edge red-brown ; a rufous spot below base of cell; traces of a double antemedial line between median nervure and vein 1, with a patch of rufous scales beyond it below the cell ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by rufous before and between them and beyond the reniform; the orbicular oblique, open above; traces of a double, waved, postmedial line, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct dark subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and execurved at middle ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale brown especially towards termen; the underside with slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, Kasumir (Thompson), 1 g¢ ; Punsas, Kangra, Laka, 1 ¢ type. Hep. 32 milim. *851. Episilia loresi. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 12.) Hiptelia lorezi, Staud. Soc. Ent. vi. p. i187 (1891); Hofm. Gr.-Schmett. Eur. ed. 2, pl. 45. f.9; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. g. Head and thorax bright red-brown ; abdomen pale red-brown with a greyish tinge. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the medial area strongly suffused with red-brown; traces of a waved EPISILIA. 493 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line waved, angled inwards in cell; claviform defined by dark brown at extremity ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by brown, the former round ; traces of a medial shade ; postmedial line produced to shght points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line defined by a brown shade on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of brown points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous except the termen from apex to vein 1; the underside slightly tinged with fuscous to the postmedial sinuous line, a discoidal point. Hab, KE. Swrrzercanp ; Avs?rrta, Tirol, in Coll. Piingeler. Evp. 44 millim. 852. Episilia destituta. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 13.) Graphiphora destituta, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 41. 3. Head and thorax bright rufous; antenne pale; tarsi dark brown with pale rings ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing bright rufous suffused with blue-grey and irrorated with fuscous, leaving the cell and area round it rufous; a double, waved, subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform slightly defined and irrorated with grey, the former small, round ; a double minutely waved postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; an indistinct subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pale fuscous brown; the cilia pale purplish red; the underside greyish, irrorated with dark brown and tinged with purplish red, a small discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. W. Cuts, Pu-tsu-fong, 1 3 type. vp. 40 millim. 853. Episilia homochroma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIIT. fig. 14.) ¢. Head and thorax deep rufous; antenne whitish ; abdomen fulvous, the ventral surface dark brown. Fore wing deep chocolate- red suffused with silvery blue ; an indistinct double, curved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line, oblique from costa to above inner margin where it is angled outwards ; orbicular and reniform with silvery blue annuli defined by brown, the former oblique, elliptical, open above; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4; cilia purplish red. Hind wing ochreous white more or less suffused with fuscous brown; cilia purplish red; the underside suffused with purplish red and irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line shghtly angled at vein 6, Hab, Traer, Yatung (//ohson), 6 3 type. Hep. 30-34 millim. 494 NOCTUID®. *854, Episilia cinerascens. (Plate LXXIITI. fig. 15.) Pachnohia cinerascens, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 108 (1891) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 64. 6. Head and thorax fuscous grey; palpi black at sides except at tips; tibia and tarsi blackish ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing fuscous grey sparsely irrorated with black ; a blackish subbasal line from below costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform black-brown with grey annuli slightly defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line minutely dentate, indistinct, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; sub- terminal line indistinct, greyish, shghtly defined by fuscous on inner side especially towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dark disccidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, in Coll. J. B. Smith, Cali- fornia, Alameda Co. Hvp. 34 millim. 855. Episilia nyctymerina. Agrotis nyctymerina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 6; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 143. . Agrotis subdeeora, Staud., Tris, viii. p. 353, pl. 6. f. 1 (1895). Ayrotis decorans, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 247 (1896); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 144. Head grey and fuscous; palpi blackish except at tips; thorax clothed with ochreous and fuscous hair; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous, the disk tinged with orange; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold: a double waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by orange, a waved medial shade passing between them ; postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the area between it and the dentate ochreous sub- terminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, more strongly suffused with fuscous ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, rather paler towards base, the cilia ochreous, whitish at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line, the termen more or less strongly suffused with fuscous. Hab. W. Torxesray, Issyk-kul, 2 ¢, Alexander Mts.,1¢,19:; KE. Turkestan, Ili. Hvp. 42-48 millim. 856. Episilia similis. Agrotis similis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 412; id. Cat. Lep. pal. jh Nee Ayrotis polita, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 51, pl. 2. f. 46 (1882). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with fuscous, patagia with flesh- coloured patches, dorsum of thorax flesh-colour; palpi blackish at EPISILIA. 495 sides, white at tips; tarsi fuscous, with pale rings to the joints; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a diffused flesh-coloured fascia in basal half of submedian fold; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and flesh-coloured annuli, the former round; a waved medial shade; postmedial line double, the inner dentate, the outer more even, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line ochreous, dentate, angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a dark shade, the area beyond it sometimes darker ; cilia ochreous, with two fuscous lines through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base ; the cilia ochreous at base, with fuscous medial line and whitish tips; the underside ao Aner whitish with slight dark irroration, a diffused postmedial line and terminal band. Hab. W. Turkestan, Alexander Mts., 1 ¢,1 9. Exp. 44 millim. 857. Episilia psammoda. Agrotis psammoda, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 390, pl. 6. f. 5 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. Head and thorax white mixed with yellow; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the last tinged with ochreous at extremity. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the veins whitish; slight streaks of rufous in and below cell, above vein 4, and shorter subterminal streaks from below vein 2 to above 5; reniform obscurely defined by rufous and with fuscous centre; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins slightly tinged with ochreous. Hab. Moneorta, Uliassutai, 13,19. Hep. 40 millim, Sucr. IV. (EZpisilia). Antenne of male ciliated. A. Hind wing yellow. a. Fore wing with the stigmata prominent ........... seieaieais anachoreta. }, Fore wing with the stiginata obsolescent B. Hind wing not yellow. a. Fore wing with the cell blackish between the stigmata, a’, Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median nervure. a*, Fore wing with dentate grey marks on the veins beyond) postmediall lamer. 205 7---.e-cec, Kore wing purplish brown othacosobassudasone luperinoites, ogngccondionsonsabonagacions - precipua. b?, Fore wing pale olive-brown ............0.cssese. os . muscula, b. Fore wing with the cell not blackish between the stigmata. a‘, Kore wing with the costal area whitish to the post- medial line; the orbieular V shaped, open above. Ge ITN WU SRV LOL ee cectidaciece one sc siaw'ssiecioiseveiaheate lasciva. }*, Hind wing suffused with fuscous ....... Bapreacantnn quidussi, 496 NOCTUIDA. . Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a’, Fore wing without streaks in interspaces of ter- minal area, Fore wing rufous. a’, Fore wing with the stigmata whitish ............ 6*, Fore wing with the stigmata obsolescent......... b3. Hote wing not rufous. a‘, Fore wing with white bar on inner edge of THEVUB KON EY Ran arice- b*, Fore wing without white bar on inner edge of reniform. Fore wing suffused with purplish pink }°. Fore wing slate-grey, with some blood-red suffusion in discal and submedian folds. a®. Fore wing dark ; hind wing fuscous brown. b°, Fore wing paler ; hind wing whitish tinged with-fuscous 1,0) ees ee au or . Fore wing without red suffusion in discal and submedian folds. . Fore wing with transverse lines. a’, Fore wing with the antemedial and sub- terminal lines defined by slate-grey...... 87. Fore wing with the antemedial and sub- terminal lines not defined by slate-grey. a’. Fore wing with the lines notexpanding into distinct black spots on costa. a, Fore wing with the lines brown, not strongly contrasting. a, Fore wing brownish white 6°, Fore wing with the ground-colour pale yellow.. el, Kore wing grey- y-brown. @, Hind wing with the cilia pure white. *. Fore wing with grey annuli to stigmata; hind wing without reddish Liners Fore wing with fulvous an- nuli to stigmata; hind wing with reddish tinge 1, Hind wing with the cilia pale brownish.. 4°. Fore wing with the lines whitish, eee ee rr seeeee ee rrr 72 Pere et eee sees enter eenree GUSH Gooacsassqnoom onc onundagdecogaqac e. Fore wing with the lines blackish, indistinct. a°, Fore wing with the cilia rufous . }°°, Fore wing with the cilia con- colorous ....... d®, Fore wing with the lines blackish, ss ongly contrasting. °, Fore wing with “the postmedial line not produced to points on the veins. 11, Fore wing with the antemedial line double. 12. Fore wing with the subter- minal line distinct whitish . 52, Fore wing with the subter- terminal line indistinct, ochreous modesta. isochroma. argillacea, violetta. alaina. Junonia. suavis, simulatrix. viscotti. lucernea. ignobilis. helvetina. plumbea. subplumbea. guadrangula, if et iftc ‘a, dipligranima. EPISILIA. 497 @". Fore wing with the antemedial lineysinglelaenpeseeteesee seer eas MONOGTAMIMNAs b'°. Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to points on the veins. a\', Fore wing reddish brown...... lederert. 6'!. Fore wing grey-brown. a'*, Fore wing with the stigmata distinctly defined ............ simulans, 6”, Fore wing with the stigmata indistinctly defined ......... latens. 6°. Fore wing with the lines expanding into distinet black spots on costa. a*. Fore wing with the-lines distinct, DOEAGIO re serene atse au ae eee eee see bia ashworthi. b°, Fore wing with the lines indistinct ... candelarwm, 6°. Fore wing without transverse lines ......... castra. 6°. Fore wing with streaks in interspaces of terminal area. a®, Fore wing with black discoidal point .............. . tiniloides, 6*. Fore wing without discoidal point ...............008 amina. 858. Episilia anachoreta. Anarta anachoreta, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 34. ff. 167, 168 (1845) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Head and thorax pale rufous ; pectus and legs greyish; abdomen clothed with yellowish hair. Fore wing pale rufous, the basal area or the whole wing sometimes with a greyish tinge; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to submedian fold sometimes present; a slightly waved antemedial line bent outwards to inner margin usually present ; claviform elongate with pale outline, often defined with black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, ochreous white, counected by a pale fascia on median nervure which also touches the claviform, and with some black in cell before and be- tween them ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, defined by a greyish band on its outer side, sometimes extending to its inner side; a minutely dentate subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7. Hind wing orange, with moderately broad terminal black band with slightly sinuous inner edge. Underside of fore wing orange ; the costal and terminal areas brown irrorated with greyish. Hab, Armenia, Caucasus,7¢,192. vp. 26-30 millim. 859. Episilia luperinoides. Anarta chardinyi, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. 92. f. 474 (1845), nec Boisd. Cyrebia luperinoides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 196, pl. 4. f. 12 (1852); Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 3. Head and thorax reddish brown with a grey tinge ; abdomen black clothed with yellow hair. Fore wing rufous suffused with grey; traces of a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved antemedial line bent outwards to inner margin ; traces of a greyish claviform stigma sometimes present; orbicular VOL, IV. 2K 498 NOCTUIDA. and reniform indistinct, greyish, sometimes rather more prominent and connected by a fascia on median nervure; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct minutely dentate subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, Hind wing orange, with moderately broad terminal black band with slightly sinuous inner edge. Underside orange, with some fuscous irroration on costa of fore wing and termen of each wing, the fore wing sometimes with dark streak on median neryure and patch beyond lower angle of cell. 2. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing more rufous. Hab. Armenta, Caucasus,2¢,29. Hap. 28 millim. Possibly a variety of 4. anachoreta, 860. Episilia stridula. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 16.) Agrotis stridula, Staud. ined. g. Head and thorax deep red-brown, the hairs tipped with pale brown; tegule with black medial band; tibiz and tarsi blackish ; abdomen fuscous brown, with greyish segmental lines. Fore wing reddish brown thickly suffused with fuscous, the veins streaked with greyish ; the subbasal line represented by black strive from costa and cell, filled in with red-brown ; the antemedial line black, defined by pale rufous on inner side, angled outwards below costa, emitting an oblique streak to basal line from subcostal nervure, angled inwards on median nervure and very strongly out- wards above inner margin, with a black spot on its outer edge at base of claviform, which is finely defined by whitish and black ; orbicular and reniform with greyish centres and pale reddish annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique, elliptical, the latter strongly dentate inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them black; an oblique waved shade from lower angle of ecll to inner margin; the postmedial line bla:k, defined by pale reddish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the veins beyond it defined by reddish dentate marks ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, detined by a series of dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a dark terminal line and line through the cia. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line at base; the underside pale, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; an indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab, W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 ¢ type. wp. 36 millim. 861. Episilia voccei. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 17.) Agrotis wockei, Moschl, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 180, pl. 1. ff. 1, 2 (1862); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Agrotis scropulana, Morr. Proc. Bost. See. N. H. xvii. p. 165 (1874). ¢. Head and thorax chestnut, tegule blackish at extremity and with white lines through them and base of patagia; abdomen fuscous brown, with the hair at sides and extremity fulvous. EPISILIA. 499 Fore wing pale grey-brown, tinged with rufous below the cell on medial area; the subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; a wedge-shaped black mark above vein | before the indistinct sinuous, oblique, grey antemedial line; claviform elongate, grey defined by black ; cell filled in with black defining the grey orbicular and reniform stigmata, the former open above and rather V-shaped, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on median neryure; the postmedial line minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 8 and at vein 3 inwardly oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing pale grey-brown, with indistinct discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. @. Greyer, without the rufous tints. Hab. Canana, Labrador, 1 2, Grote Coll.; U.S.A., New Hamp- shire, White Mts., 1 ¢ type scropuluna; W. Turkesran, Ala Tau. Exp., & 38, 9 40 millim. 862. Episilia cuprea. Noctua cuprea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 91 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.62; Godt. Lép. Fr. ii. p. 197, pl. 63; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Noctua hematitedea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 182. f. 4 (1786). Head and thorax red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with grey ; abdomen greyish brown, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing red-brown; the veins finely streaked with white, the median nervure most prominently so; the subbasal line represented by grey strie from costa and median nervure with some brown on their inner sides; the antemedial line grey, angled outwards below costa, then incurved and obsolete below vein 1; claviform dark brown defined by white, the cell and area just below and beyond it dark red-brown; the orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former somewhat oblique, elliptical, the latter with white line at centre and often angled inwards on median nervure; the post- medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incuryed at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; the subterminal line defined by dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4 and 3; a fine dark terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a reddish tinge ; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous white, irrorated with reddish brown, Hab. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Silesia; Swrrzprtanp, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Huneary; Norway, Zeller Coll.; Russia, St. Peters- burg, Frey Coll., Urals; Armenia; Kamscuarka. vp, 36-40 milim. 863. Episilia precipua. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 18.) Agrotis precipua, Staud. Iris, vy. p. 860, pl. 3. £5 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. Lol. g. Head and thorax red-brown-with a purplish tinge, the head 2K 2 500 NOCLUID”. and tegule irrorated with grey; fore tibiz and tarsi whitish in front ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface reddish brown. Fore wing purplish brown tinged with grey, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with red- brown except on inner area, the costal area suffused with purplish ; a blackish streak below base of cell; the antemedial line slightly curved, obsolete below vein 1; orbicular and reniform small, grey, the former oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between them filled in with black- brown; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 7, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and produced to shght points at the veins ; the subterminal line dark, diffused, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine dark terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused with fuscous except towards base and inner margin, the cilia ochreous; the underside with the costal area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal point and diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. W. Stpuria, Dauria; Moncorta, Urga; E. Siperta, Kentei, 1 3g, W. Amurland. ap. 38 millim. 864. Episilia muscula. Agrotis musculus, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 30; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Agrotis citillus, Alph. Rom, Mém. y. p. 133, pl. 7. f. 2 (1889). do. Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing pale olive-brown, tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; the veins greyish ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, angled below costa and defined by grey on outer side; a double dentate antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1; clavi- form small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform small, with rufous centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with some black in lower portion, the cell before and between them black; the postmedial line double, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by blackish on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, reddish towards inner margin; the cilia pale yellow. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with the costal and terminal areas yellowish; hind wing yellowish, with dark discoidal point and indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab. W. Turxesran, Issyk-kul, 1 g¢. ap, 34 millim. 865. Episilia lasciva. Agrotis lasciva, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p 14; Alph. Rom. Mém, y. pl. 8. f. 10; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 3S. Head and thorax purplish red; tegule with the basal half FPISILTA. 5OL ochreous white, the tips bright red-brown; abdomen ochreous, rufous towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing purplish red; the costal area ochreous white to postimedial line, extending to just below cell at base; the median nervure with whitish streak ; an olive-brown subbasal patch below the cell; the antemedial line obsolete above median nervure, excurved below cell and above inner margin, angled inwards on vein |; claviform small, indistinct, greyish, defined by brown above; orbicular ochreous white, triangular and confluent with costal area; renifurm with greyish centre and ochreous annulus; the cell before and between the stigmata olive-brown; the postmedial line very in- distinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it paler; the subterminal line indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 aud excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous. Hab. W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Turcomania, 1 ¢. Lp. 40 millim. 866. Episilia juldussi. Agrotis juldussi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 49, pl. 3. f. 59 (1882) ; Staud, Cat, Lep. pal. p. 143. g. Head and thorax purplish red; tegule with whitish medial line and dark brown tips; abdomen rufous. Fore wing purplish red, the disk suffused with red-brown ; the costal area ochreous to the postmedial line, extending to just below cell at base; a subbasal red-brown patch below the cell; the antemedial line very indistinct, oblique from cell to inner margin, obsolete on costal area; orbicular ochreous, V-shaped, confluent with costal area; reniform with greyish centre and ochreous annulus; the cell before and between the stigmata red-brown ; traces of an oblique medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the subter minal line indistinct, greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine terminal dark line. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous ; the underside pale ochreous brown, the costal area tinged with red, a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial ‘Tine. Hab. W. Turxestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 4 ¢ ; E. Turxesran, Kuldja, 1 g. Hap. 34 millim. 867. Episilia modesta. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 19.) Agrotis modesta, Staud. Tris, viii. p. 809 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 3. Head and tegule deep red-brown; thorax pinkish rufous ; legs rufous, the tarsi with ochreous rings; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pinkish rufous, irrorated with a few white scales; subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to submedian fold, filled in with white scales ; antemedial line double at costa, then indistinct, single, and defined by whitish on outer side; orbicular and reniform small, with slight rufous centres and 502 NOCTUID A, ochreons-white annuli, the former round; a slight medial shade ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, somewhat incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale, somewhat dentate, angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined at costa on inner side by a blackish patch with pale points on it; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing ochreous ; cilia pale rufous, the under- side with the costal area tinged with rufous. Hab. T1srr, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo, wp. 32 millim. 868. Episilia isochroma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIIL. fig. 20.) 45+ =< Head and thorax rufous; abdomen greyish ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ferruginous red, with a few silvery-blue scales on inner and terminal areas; orbicular represented by an obscure dark point, the reniform by a slight lunule ; faint traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; traces of a subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white; the costal area slightly tinged with fuscous’ and the terminal area in female; cilia pale rufous; the underside with slight discoidal point and traces of postmedial line. Hab, Tiner, Yatung (Hobson), 1 3, 1 Q type. Exp., 3 28, © 30 millim, 869. Episilia argillacea. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 21.) Eicomorpha argillacea, Alph, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 445 (1892) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. : Agrotis decolor, Staud, Iris, viii. p. 807 (1895). ¢. Head and thorax pale grey-brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, irrorated with a few dark scales; traces of waved brown subbasal and antemedial lines; orbicular a small elliptical white annulus; reniform indistinct, with a white bar on lis inner edge ; faint traces of a postmedial line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white with a brownish tinge ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and terminal series of points. Hab, Viner, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo. wp. 34 millim, 870. Episilia violetta. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 22. Ayrotis violetta, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p.3; id. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 144. Head and thorax grey, suffused with purplish pink ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey, suffused with purplish pink and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct double wayed antemedial line; claviform an indistinct pale dash; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli, the former small, rounded ; postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on EPISILIA. 503 the veins, defined by pale pinkish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct sub- terminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points sometimes present; a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with pale brown; the underside whiter, a dark discoidal junule and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab. W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Turcomania, 1 g,1 9. Evp., 3 40, 2 46 millim. 871. Episilia alaina. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 23.) Agrotis alaina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p.5; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Head and thorax grey mixed with blackish, the base of tegula and patagia and the slight pro- and metathoracie crests ochreous tinged with pink; abdomen grey, tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing slate-grey; the discal and subterminal folds suffused with blood-red from the antemedial to the subterminal line; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, irregularly dentate and filled in with ochreous; orbicular and reniform defined with ochreous, the former round; the postmedial line slightly detined by ochreous on outer side, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line ochreous, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points ; cilia brown. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia brown; the underside ochreous whitish, a fuscous lunule and somewhat sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 g, 1 9, Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Korla. vp. 40 millim, 872. Episilia junonia. Agrotis junonia, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 415; Alph. Rom. Mém, y. pl. 8. f. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Head and thorax white, mixed with grey and more or less strongly tinged with fulvous or blood-red; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish, tinged with ochreous brown, Fore wing ochreous white, more or less strongly and completely irrorated and suffused with blue-grey, and with some pale fulyous or blood-red suffusion in sub- median and discal folds; a double waved grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an irregularly dentate whitish antemedial line defined on each side by blue-grey, more strongly angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and renitorm blue-grey detined by whitish, the former small, round ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, blue-grey, defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line waved, whitish, excurved at vein 7 and middle; cilia pale brown. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous brown; 504 NOCTUIDA, the cilia whitish ; underside white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Kuruk Tag, 1 g;, 1 9, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-kul, 1 ¢. Hwp. 48 millim. 873. Episilia suavis. Ammogrotis suavis, Staud, Iris, viii. p. 358, pl. 6. f. 11 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. do. Head and thorax clothed with ochreous white mixed with black hair; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing white, tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black ; a blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa; an oblique waved blackish antemedial line arising from a small black spot on costa; the claviform diffusedly defined by blackish; orbicular represented by a small blackish spot; reniform diffused blackish, with diffused spot above it on costa and another on its outer edge; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with more prominent points at the veins, arising from a black spot on costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line dentate, irregularly diffused on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 aud excurved at middle; a terminal series of black strie. Hind wing ochreous white, slightly irrorated with fuscous; slight spots on the veins beyond lower angle of cell; a diffused subterminal band. Under- side of fore wing with the disk suffused with fuscous. flab, Moneours, Uliassutai Mts., 1 g, Korla. xp. 46 millim, 874. Episilia simulatrix. Noctua simulatrix, Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 712 (1827); Geyer, Samm], Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 712. Agrotis nictymera, Boisd. Icones, pl. 78. ff. 1, 2 (1832); Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 604, pl. 50. f. 3; Herr.-Schatf. Schinett. Mur., Noct. f. 171 ; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. Agrotis dalmata, Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143 (1901). ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing brownish white; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; a waved medial shade angled outwards on median nervure; reniform yery indistinctly defined with brownish; a strongly dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to yein 4, then incurved ; the sub- terminal line defined by a fuscous shade on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia whitish, with a brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the terminal half suffused with brown; the cilia white; the underside white, irrorated with pale brown and suffused with fuscous towards termen, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. dalinata. Ground-colour rather more ochreous, EPISILIA. 505 Hab. France, Centr. & 8. East, 2 ¢ ; Spartn, Centr.; Datmatra, 1 ¢ ; Asra Minor, Pontus, Taurus. wp. 44 millim. Larva. Bruand, Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. (2) ii. p. 192, pl. 6. f. C (1844). Black, greenish on lateral and ventral surfaces ; subdorsal stripe bordered above by three white strive on each somite, Food-plant, Festuca ovina. 4. 875. Episilia viscotti. Agrotis wiskotti, Stndf. Iris, i. p. 212, pl. 10. ff. 3. 4, & xi. f. 2 (1888); Rebel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1899, p. 164, pl. 4. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 3S. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow mixed largely with fuscous ; tarsi fuscous, with yellow rings. Fore wing pale yellow, thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct from costa to submedian fold, defined by yellowish on outer side; antemedial line fuscous, defined by yellow on inner side, highly waved, nearly erect ; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform a small fuscous lunule with greyish centre; medial shade waved ; postmedial line defined by yellowish on outer side, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal line yellowish, strongly defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia chequered fuscous and yellow. Hind wing yellowish white, tinged with fuscous brown except towards base; cilia pale yellow; the underside pale yellow, with some fuscous suffusion on inner area, a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Q rather yellower, Hab, Swirzertsnp, High Alps, 1 9, Zeller Coll. Lup., $ 42, 2 46 milhm, 876. Episilia lucernea. Noctua lucernea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 510 (1757); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Graphiphora renigera, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 129 (1827). Noctua cataleuca, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 377, pl. 14. f. 2; id. Tcones, pl. 82. ff. 5,6; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. pl. 19. f. 3; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 574-5. Head and thorax brownish grey, the hairs tipped with grey; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area darker; the subbasal line pale, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line waved, angled outwards in submedian fold and defined by grey on inner side; orbicular and reniform small, with grey annuli, the former round; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, defined by grey on outer side; the subterminal line in- distinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base; cilia white; the underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area more or less completely suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point, 506 NOCTUIDE. Ab. 1. renigera. Much darker.—Scotland and mountains of England. Hab. Briratx, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll., Pyrenees ; Swirzertanp, Engadine, Frey Coll. ; ScanDinavia ; Russia, Finland, Zeller Coll. Hep. 38-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 97; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 890, pl. 136. f. 3. Fuscous, with subdorsal series of dark fuscous dentate marks with pale spots behind them ; head fuscous, with black markings. Food-plants: Sedum, Stellaria, Campanula, 9-4. *877. Episilia ignobilis. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 24.) Agrotis ignobilis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 7; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. 3S. Head and thorax grey, the hair tipped with dark brown, the tegule tinged with rufous; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous and with a slight fulvous tinge in discal and submedian folds ; a double, waved, sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale fulvyous annuli defined by fuscous, the former rather small, round, the latter narrow and with fuscous centre; medial shade black, prominent, angled at median nervure ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line pale, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale with a rufous tinge; the terminal area broadly fuscous from costa to submedian fold ; cilia white, yellowish at base; the underside grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous, a sinuous postmedial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. Hab, W. Turxestan, Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts., in Coll, Piingeler. Exp. 42 millim, >) 878. Episilia helvetina. Noctua birivia, Hibn. Sammi. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 42 (nee Schiff.). Noctua helvetina, Boisd. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 876, pl. 14. f. 3; id. Icones, pl 82. f. 4; Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. ii. p. 207, pl. 19. f. 4; Herr.- Schatf. Schmett. Eur. ui. p. 334, pl. 3. ff. 12-14; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. jb ese Noctua livia, Frey. Beitr. iii. pl. 201 (1886). Head and thorax brown, the hairs tipped with grey-white ; abdomen brown, with an ochreous tinge towards extremity in male. Fore wing ochreous brown, suffused with smooth leaden-grey ; an indistinct antemedial line excurved from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular and renform slightly defined with whitish, the former small, elliptical ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; hardly a trace of the subterminal line. Hind wing dull brown suffused with grey, the cilia ochreous at base, grey at tips; the underside whitish, irrorated with yellow- brown, a curved postmedial line. EPISILIA, 507 Hab. Alps of S. France, Leech Coll.; Germany; AvsrRta; Swrizeruand, Zeller & Frey Colls.; N. Irary; Armenia. vp. 50 millim, 879. Episilia plumbea. Agrotis plumbea, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 168; id. Rom. Mér. v. p. 136, pl. 6. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 6. Head and thorax fuscous black, the hairs tipped with grey ; legs brownish ; abdomen whitish, tinged with pale rufous towards extremity and on ventral surface. ore wing leaden-fuscous, slightly irrorated with grey-white ; a whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct diffused oblique waved ante- medial whitish line; claviform obscurely defined by whitish ; orbicular and reniform defined by white, the former small, round ; postmedial line dentate, whitish, bent outwards bclow costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct dentate whitish subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points; cilia pale ochreous brown. Hind wing white, slightly tinged with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; cilia white; the underside with discoidal point and curved postmedial line obsolete except towards costa, Hab. W. Turxustan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul; KE. Turxesran, Ili; Moneoria, Uliassutai Mts., 1 g¢. Hep. 44 millim. 880. Episilia subplumbea. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 25.) Agrotis subplumbea, Staud. Iris, vili. p. 810 (1895); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 144. do. Head and thorax black-brown, the hairs slightly tipped with grey; antennee rufous; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface strongly irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing black-brown, slightly irrorated with grey ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform blackish defined by greyish annuli, the former rather small, round ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; cilia rufous. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous; cilia ochreous ; the underside whiter, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved postmedial line almost obsolete except towards costa. Hab, ‘Tiser, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo. Awp. 44 millim, 881. Episilia quadrangula. Agrotis quadrangula, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 935 (1840); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146, Agrotis rava, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur, vi. p. 59, Suppl. f. 544 (1850) ; Smith, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 73. Ayrotis wmbratus, Pack. Proc, Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 87 (1867). 3. Pale grey-brown. Fore wing with some dark irroration ; traces of a dark streak below base of cell and subbasal line; the 508 NOCTUID.©. antemedial line acutely angled inwards in cell and on vein 1, excurved below costa and cell and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elongate, slightly defined by dark scales; orbi- cular and reniform slightly defined by dark scales, the cell between Fig. 87.—Episilia quadrangula, $. }. them blackish, the former round, the latter open above and below ; a patch of blackish scales beyond the cell; the postmedial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; faint traces of a subterminal line. Hind wing grey suf- fused with fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous white; the underside with discoidal spot and diffused waved postmedial and subterminal lines. Hab, Greentanp; Canaps, Labrador, 1 ¢, Nova Scotia; Icr- tann (Walker), 1 6,3 Q. Exp. 40 millim. 882. Episilia letifica. Agrotis letifica, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p.29; Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. pl. 13. f. 10; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 3g. Head and thorax clothed with grey and dark brown hair ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing clothed with white and black scales, the interspaces ochreous except towards costa and inner margin; a waved dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and whitish annuli, the former round ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a whitish subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous especially towards termen ; the cilia white; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins. Hab. Moneotts, Uliassutai Mts., 1 ¢, Changhai Mts., Ili. Hep. 46 millim. 883. Episilia diplogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIIT. fig. 26.) ° Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen brownish grey; tarsi fuscous, with ochreous rings. Fore wing grey, mixed with ochreous and irrorated and suffused with fuscous; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, EPISILIA. 509 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, oblique, waved; orbicular and reniform small, very indistinct, with fuscous centres and ochreous annuli, the former oblique, elliptical; a dif- fused curved medial shade; postmedial line dentate, defined by ochreous on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight ochreous points, with an obscure series of dentate dark marks before them. Hind wing fuscous with an ochreous tinge, the cilia ochreous at base, whitish at tips; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, traces of a postmedial curved line most distinct on costal area. Hab. W. Turxustran, Aschabad, 1 3,1 9 type. Hep. 32 millim. 884. Episilia monogramma, n. sp. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 27.) Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown, sometimes suffused with fuscous ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey, thickly irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform greyish, with pale annuli defined by blackish, the former elliptical ; a waved diffused medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct den- tate subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous brown; cilia whitish, sometimes with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line. Hah, Kasumir, Kuijar (McArthur), 2 3, 1 Q type, Barra Larcha (McArthur), 12. Hep. 34-42 millim. 885. Episilia ledereri. Agrotis lederert, Ersch. Trudui Russ. Ent. Obsh, iv. p. 195 (1867); Rom. Mém. ii. p. 209, pl. 16. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis mus, Alph. Hor, Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 48, pl. 2. f. 50 (1882). Head and thorax yellow-brown ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing yellow-brown ; the subbasal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line indistinet, waved, with prominent black points at costa, median nervure, submedian fold, and vein 1; orbicular and reniform very faintly and incompletely defined by black ; traces of a waved medial line excurved to lower angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, dentate and produced to a prominent series of black points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then ineurved; the subterminal line formed of small dentate black marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points, Hind wing pale ochreous, tinged with fuscous especially towards termen ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside paler, with dark dis- éoidal point and curyed postmedial line, 510 NOOTUID®, Ab. 1. mus. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker brown. Hab. W. Turxensran, Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, Ili, Thian-Shan Mts.; Moneorra, Uliassutai Mts.; S.E. Stperia, Kentei, Amurland, 13,19. ep. 36 millim. &86. Episilia simulans. Noctua simulans, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 896 (1767); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Noctua pyrophila, Schiff. Wien Verz. p. 71 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 43; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. p. 354; Steph. Il. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 130. Noctua tristis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 283 (1784). Noctua radicea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 143. ff. 1, 2 (1786). Agrotis obscurata, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148 (1901). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey or ochreous, mixed with brown or fuscous ; 3 palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tarsi blackish, with pale rings. Fore wing grey or ochreous brown, thickly irro- rated with dark brown ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform with fuscous-irrorated centres and ochreous annuli, slightly defined by black, a waved dark medial shade passing between them, the former round ; a highly dentate postmedial line produced to points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line greyish, somewhat dentate and defined by a series of small dentate black marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia yellowish white; the underside whitish, the costal area yellowish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. obscurata. Darker ; fore wing blackish grey. Hab. Brrraty, Scotland, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Gur- many, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ausrria, Leech Coll. ; SwitzEREAND, Leech Coll.; Denmark; Fintanp; Areuria; ARMENIA; Kurpisran; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 1 gd, 1 9; E. Turxesran, Ili; W. Siperia, Altai. Hap. 44-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 98; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 377, pl. 135. f. 2 Fuscous brown; dorsal line fine, indistinct, pale, with a darker line on each side, and with a series of dorsal V-shaped marks ; subdorsal area brownish flesh-colour, with some dark irroration ; a white lateral fascia interrupted at Znd and 5th to terminal somitcs by black marks. Food-plants: grasses, dandelion, dock, knot-grass, groundsel, etc. 8-6. 887. Episilia latens. Noctua latens, Hiibn. Samm]. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 419 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 29, pl. 73; Boisd. cones, pl. 80. f.1; Herr.-Schaif. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 832; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145, EPISILIA. HEL Noctua murina, Frey. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. iv. pl. 364. f. 1 (1842). Agrotis latitans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 808 (1852). Head and thorax grey and pale brown, the hairs tipped with grey; palpi fuscous at sides; tibize and tarsi mostly fuscous ; abdomen pale, thickly irrorated with fuscons brown. Fore wing grey or pale brownish, thickly irrorated with black ; a double,waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform indistinct or hardly defined except by a quadrate fuscous spot between them, sometimes forming part of a diffused medial shade ; postmedial line highly dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suf- fusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind wing fuscous brown, often whitish except terminal area; cilia white ; the underside whitish more or less irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line and diffused terminal band. Hab. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austria ; Hun- GARY; SwirzeRnANnpD, Frey Coll.; Iraty; Norway, Leech Coll. Exp. 34-40 millim. 888. Episilia ashworthi. Agrotis ashworthii, Doubl. Zool. 1855, p. 4749; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Spelotis vallesiaca, Staint. Ann. 1855, p. 41, f. 2 (nee Boisd.). Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous; palpi black, grey at tip; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa; a minutely waved antemedial line angled inwards on vein |; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli, the former round; a diffused sinuous medial shade ; the postmedial line strongly dentate. bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then oblique ; the subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia fuscous. Hind wing pale, suffused with reddish brown, the cila whitish; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. Hab. Brrrary, N. Wales (Salvage, Doubleday). Exp. 385-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep p 97; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 183, pl. 136, f. 2. Dull dark grey-green, blackish grey, or fuscous ; a subdorsal series of narrow rectangular black marks ; ; head red-brown. Food-plants : Helianthemun, Hieracium, Saliv, ete. 9-5. 889. Episilia candelarum. Noctua candelisequa, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 397 (1827), nee Hiibn., Vig. & Schm.; Dup Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 77. f. 2. Agrotis candelarum, Staud, Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1389 512 NOCTUIDE. Agrotis signata, Staud. Cat. Lep. p. 82 (1871). Agrotis jotunensis, Auriy, Nord. Fjar. p. 122 (1888). Head and thorax white to pale purplish brown, largely mixed with grey; palpi brown except at tips; abdomen white, tinged with brown or ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, more or less tinged with ochreous brown, and with some darker irroration and dark spots on costa at the lines; a waved dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved dark antemedial line angled outwards below costa; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by brownish, the former rounded ; a diffused curved medial line; the postmedial line fairly prominent or almost obsolete, dentate and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing white, suffused with ochreous brown especially towards termen; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. jotunensis. Darker. Ab. 2. signata. Paler, the postmedial dentate line very prominent. Hab. France, Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Aus- pria; SwirzerRtand; Scanpinavia; Russta, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals; Batxan Saves; Byramia; W. Turxesran, Turcomania ; Tisut, Amdo. wp. 44-46 millim. *890. Episilia castra. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 30.) Leucania castra, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxi. p. 283 (1894). 3. Head and thorax white tinged with ochreous; sides of palpi and frons black.; pro- and metathorax with black marks; abdomen ochreous, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white, sparsely irrorated with black; a black fascia on median nervure and vein 4 from base to near termen; the orbicular and reniform represented by small round black spots ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing yellowish white, with some black points on termen. Hab. Braztt, Castro Parana, type ft d in Coll. Schaus. Lxp. 34 millim. *891. Episilia tiniloides. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 28.) Leucania tiniloides, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 244 (1897), 9. Leucania sagitta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xli. p. 244 (1897), ¢. 9. Head pale reddish brown; palpi dark red-brown, pale at tips; tegule grey at base, with white medial line followed by black, brown at tips; thorax pale grey-brown ; fore tibie and tarsi whitish above; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey ; the median nervure white, the other veins brown, defined on each side by fine grey streaks ; the inner and terminal areas tinged with rufous; a black streak below basal half of cell; EPISILIA,—NYSSOCNEMIS. 513 a black discoidal point; a curved postmedial series of black points on the veins ; a terminal series of points; an oblique brown shade from termen below apex, and another above tornus. Hind wing semihyaline white, with terminal series of fuscous points; the underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with black, a black discoidal point and terminal series. 3. Ground-colour of fore wing straw-yellow ; the veins slightly defined ; a rufous streak in lower end of cell; the brown patches on termen more prominent. Hab, Ecuavor, Loja, 1 2 type t, 1 3 type T sagitta, in Coll. Dognin. vp. 32 millim. *892. Episilia amina. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 29.) Leucania amina, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xli. p. 246 (1897). 2. Head pale reddish brown; thorax brownish grey ; abdomen grey dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing grey, suffused with pale reddish brown except the costal area; the veins except on inner area defined by slight whitish streaks; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costal and inner areas tinged with brown; a terminal series of brown strixe. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with ferruginous ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab, Eovavor, Loja, type f 2 in Coll. Dognin. “vp. 40 millim, Genus NYSSOCNEMIS. Type WNyssoenenes, ed. Noct. Hur. poll] (1S07)..ccccc.cce ss.csoccevecesccssses obesa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd and 38rd joints clothed with long hair in front; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennz of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex, of female with short branches ending in a bristle ; head and thorax clothed with thick hair and scales, the pro- and mesothorax with spreading crests ; all the tibixe with fine spines; abdomen with lateral tufts of hair towards extremity. Fore wing short and broad; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 893, Nyssocnemis obesa. Noctua obesa, Ev. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. iii. p. 86, pl. 2. f. 2 (1846) ; Staud. Cat. ep. pal. p. 185. Hadena eversmanni, Led. Zool.-bot. Ver. 1855, pl. 3. f. 1. Hadena ledereri, H.-S. Eur. Schmett. 11. Index, p. 31 (1856). Valeria spilogramma, Rambr. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 821; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. pp. 168, 255. Head and thorax dark red-brown, some of the scales tipped with grey and black; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown tinged with fuscous. Fore wing red-brown with a purplish tinge; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique antemedial line angled outwards below costa and excurved above inner margin; claviform more or less prominently defined by black VOL. IV. 21 514 NOCTUIDAE. and with some black suffusion below it; orbicular oblique elliptical, with oblique black striga from costa above it; reniform narrow, creamy white, with the centre defined by red-brown ; an ladistinct waved medial line with the area beyond it suffused with black; the Fig. 88.—Nyssocnemis obesa, 3. }. postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved; the subterminal line ochreous, with black suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area fuscous brown, broadly so at costa, narrowing to a point at tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated and suffused with brown, a slight discoidal striga and indistinct postmedial line. Hab. 8. Russia ; W. Srperta, Altai, 2 9; FE. Srperz, 4 d, 3 Q, Zeller Coll., Amurland, 2 d. Exp. 40-46 millim. Genus LYCOPHOTIA. Type. ry copnouid. EL bn VeLzeip a2 non (S2a)) eeememeteeeeeene eee eerereeaee porphyria. Jee, Vetnlons WEA, 15 2FAW ((UISE'Y)) psooncoccanosoaoo.. cHoonosnooocne precox. Remdrome, Habu. Vierznpo227 (S26. seb: 4 nace eee margaritosa. Scotophila, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 18 (1829)...... porphyria. Actebia, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. iti. p. 20 (1829) ......... Precok, Jihetr as, VetonTsl, Wael; Willett, joy, HOCUS) ssroccoasdoasces oananodsy codoe porphyria. Neuria, Guen, Ann. Soe, Ent. Fr. x. p. 241 (1841), non deser.... elegans. Phleboéts, Christ. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 164.............2.c0c00+ petersi. Setagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 88. p. 59 (1894) ...... planifrons. Hypernania, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 194 (1894)........... denticulata. Praina, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 114 (1898)............ radiata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled and with pointed tuft of hair at extremity, the 3rd joint somewhat porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; thorax clothed with hairs and scales and with divided ridge-like or spreading dorsal crest; tibie spined ; abdomen cylin- drical, dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing narrow, elongate, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 shortly stalked. Secr. I. (Praina). Antenne of male bipectinate to apex with moderate branches, *804. Lycophotia radiata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 25.) Praina radiata, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 114 (1898). Lycophotia atristriata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 199 (1903). Head and thorax deep black; base of shaft of antenne and LYCOPHOTIA, 515 a bar between them ochreous white; tegule at middle and patagia edged with ochreous white; abdomen ochreous white, irrorated with fuscous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous, thickly irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous white, slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with black scales; a black fascia in and just below cell extending to termen from just below apex to vein 2, leaving fine pale streaks on the veins arising from the cell ; a broader fascia from middle of cell to above middle of vein 5, and a slight fascia above vein 2 not reaching termen ; vein 1 defined by a black fascia above it and streak below it; a black fascia on inner margin from before middle to tornus. Hind wing ochreous white, the costal area suffused with fuscous brown, the termen fuscous brown; the underside with the costal area broadly and the termen slightly irrorated with black. Hab. Brazit, Castro Parana (D. Jones), type tT S radiata in Coll. Schaus, type T 2 atristriata in Coll. Druce. Hwvp.40 millim. Sucr. IT. Antenne of male bipectinate with short fasciculate branches, the apical part serrate. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell confluent with the claviform stigma. a. Fore wing with dentate black marks before subterminal Mite tences saceercsme cn cecieccceedaiicsotoete tien ncwasnascstlnecouiatesias innominata, b, Fore wing without dentate black marks before subterminal Wife», cpooenooosobnsounéQocobongsose6no05000 cobUsanasebscobboocacbaacet molothina. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the cell dark brown before and between N® EIBVATIANIS, ecoancdagoobobonos doondabosbusqonabenancnoDdoaaonOOGs perigray ha. b. Fore wing with the cell concolorous. a‘, Head, thorax, and fore wing ochreous yellow ......... lutescens. b'. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright sulphur-yellow ... romanovi. 895. Lycophotia innominata. Agrotis innominata, Huds. N. Zealand Moths, p. 31, pl. 5. f. 89 (1898). g. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown and black ; palpi blackish at sides, tegule blackish at base; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface Fig. 89.—Lycophotia innominata, 3. }. white irrorated with black. Fore wing pale reddish brown thickly irrorated with black; the basal half of costa black ; claviform elon- gate, defined by black and extending as a streak to base; the cell 21,2 24 2 516 NocrviIp zm. blackish, defining the orbicular and reniform, which have rather obscure grey annuli, the former produced on outer side; the sub- terminal line represented by a series of greyish points with dentate black marks on their inner side between vein 6 and submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; the cilia white ; the underside paler, with terminal series of dark points. Hab. N. Zeatann (Enys), 1 $. Exp. 36 millim. 896. Lycophotia molothina. Noctua molothina, Esp. Schmett. iii. pl. 85. f. 1 (1789); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Agrotis velum, Germ. Faune Ins, Eur, xxii. pl. 13 (1812); Herr.-Sehiff, Schmett. Eur ii. pl. 6. f. 50. Chersotis erice, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 104 (1840). Agrotis occidentalis, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 665, pl. 12. ff. 6, 7. g. Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with grey ; antenne with the basal joint white in front; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous brown. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with grey and sometimes tinged with rufous ; a grey patch on basal costal area extending to just below cell; a black streak above base of vein 1 confluent with the elongate black-defined claviform stigma; the antemedial line grey, waved, oblique, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform fuscous, with greyish annuli defined by black, the former somewhat irregular, elliptical, the latter sometimes angled inwards on median nervure, a black fascia before and between them in lower part of cell; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely den- tate, black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed and oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, defined by a series of dentate blackish marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, and 1; some pale points on costa towards apex, a ter- minal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown, the last narrowing to tornus; cilia white; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous. @. Hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown. Ab. 1. occidentalis. Darker, blackish. Hab. Francz, Sand & Frey Colls. ; Briervm, Zeller Coll. ; Grr- many; AvsrriaA; Huneary; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. Hap. 40 millim. *897. Lycophotia perigrapha. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 30.) Agrotis perigrapha, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 290, pl. 8. f. 10 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 180. Head and thorax grey, the scales tipped with dark brown, the thoracic crests blackish at tips; abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing lilacine grey thickly irrorated with brown ; LYCOPHOTIA. ole subbasal line strong, black, from costa to submedian fold and angled outwards below costa; antemedial line brown, oblique, slightly sinuous and strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular very large, V-shaped or semi-elliptical, open above, defined by black below ; reniform large, incompletely defined by black, the cell before and between the stigmata blackish ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- terminal line with two prominent dentate black marks below costa, then indistinct, formed of pale and brown scales, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale, almost entirely suffused and irrorated with brown; cilia whitish; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Tiser, Kuku-noor, type t in Coll. Piingeler, Amdo. Lwp. 40 millim. 898. Lycophotia lutescens, (Plate LX XIII. fig. 31.) Agrotis lutescens, Ey. Bull. Mose. iii. p. 591, pl. 14. £.3 a, b (1844); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Agrotis dilucida, Ey. Faun. Volg. Ur. p. 205 (1844). Agrotis leonina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 182. Ochreous; thorax tinged with rufous; abdomen white at base. Fore wing irrorated with rufous ; the subbasal and antemedial lines represented by obscure dark spots below the cell; orbicular and reniform small dark spots; postmedial line minutely dentate, angled outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal fold; a more or less prominent terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, suffused with ochreous brown on terminal half, Hab, Russta, Urals, 1 $,1 9, Sarepta. vp. 44 millim, *899, Lycophotia romanovi. Agrotis romanovi, Christ. Rom. Mém. ii. p. 37, pl. 2. f. 7 (1885); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. ©. Head and thorax bright sulphur-yellow; abdomen ochreous, white at base. Fore wing bright sulphur-yellow ; a diffused rufous antemedial line, angled inwards on vein | and outwards above inner margin; orbicular represented by a small reddish-brown spot, the reniform by a smal] lunule; postmedial line rufous, oblique, slightly angled outwards below costa and at vein4; subterminal line repre- sented by a diffused series of dentate reddish-brown marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of red-brown points; cilia rufous at tips. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the costal area whitish ; the cilia pale yellow; the underside yellowish white, with the terminal area tinged with rufous. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line nearer the reniform, more diffused and almost straight. Hab. Anmenta, Jura, in Coll. Piingeler. Hawp. 44 millim. - F418 NOCTUID®. Sxcr. ITI. Antenne of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour white ..................065 achromatica. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour green ............02...0- coyrensis. C. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown ............66. sichina. 900. Lycophotia achromatica, n. sp. (Plate LX XIII. fig. 32.) do. Head and thorax white, the head and tegule tinged with rufous, the thorax irrorated with some large brown scales; tarsi banded with black; abdomen white, tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing white, sparsely irrorated with reddish brown; traces of a waved brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a rather indistinct antemedial line bent outwards to costa, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbi- cular represented by a black point with two slight streaks from it to the small blackish reniform ; postmedial line obsolescent, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the veins towards termen with slight dark streaks; faint traces of a dentate subterminal line, with dark marks before it at costa and beyond it above veins 4 and 5 ; a terminal series of black points; cilia slightly tinged with rufous. Hind wing semihyaline white. Hab, Braztt, Bahia (Lacerda, O. Thomas), 3 d type. Exp. 36 millim. *901. Lycophotia cofrensis. Carneades cofrensis, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 109 (1898). 3. Head whitish mixed with black, sides of palpi black; antenne brown; tegule pale greenish, the terminal half black followed by brown tipped with white; thorax reddish brown, the Fig. 90.—Lycophotia cofrensis, 3. 3. scales tipped with white and mixed with black, some yellowish and rufous on shoulders ; legs and abdomen brown and white, the tarsi - ringed with white. Fore wing pale sap-green; a waved black sub- basal line from costa to vein 1, followed by white marks, then black ones; a double antemedial line filled in with green and angled outwards below costa and above inner margin; claviform large, black ; orbicular and reniform green, with white annuli defined by black, the former large, somewhat oblique and open above, the latter somewhat constricted at middle and with some black in its lower extremity, the cell before and between them black ; an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the post- LYCOPHOTIA. 519 medial line strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; costa towards apex black, with some white points on it; subterminal line obscurely dentate, diffused, black, angled outwards at vein 7; a terminal series of black points; cilia fuscous and white. Hind wing white irrorated with brown; the inner margin brownish; a fine terminal line; the underside with discoidal bar and curved postmedial line, Hab, Mexico, Coffre de Perote, Las Vegas, type t ¢ in Coll. Schaus. vp. 38 millim. 902. Lycophotia sichima. (Plate LXXIV, fig. 1.) Mamestra sikkima, Moore, P.Z.8. 1867, p. 53; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 185. Head and thorax black and dark-brown, some of the scales tipped with white, the tegule often wholly white except the tips, which are rufous as also the dorsal crests; tibix and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with black and a few large yellowish-white “scales ; ; double waved black subbasal and antemedial lines filled in with grey, the former ending at submedian fold where there is a black patch beyond it, the latter angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner. margin; claviform defined by black, and with more or less diffused yellowish-white scales on it; orbicular and reniform more or less completely suffused with yellowish-white scales and defined by black, the former somewhat quadrate; a waved medial line excurved at median nervure; the postmedial line double, dentate, filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in diseal fold, incurved below vein 4+; the subterminal line greyish, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by a blackish patch before it at costa and some dentate marks at middle; a greyish apical patch; a waved black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. Hund wing fuscous, the cilia greyish with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the ‘costal and terminal areas bro: idly brown irrorated with white, a slight discoidal spot. Hab. Taper, Yatong (Bingham, Hobson), 2 6, 4 2 ; Siku (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Pilcher), 6 $,3 9, type. Hup. 28-36 millim. Secr. IV. (Lycophotia). Antenne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median nervure. a’, Fore oe with the claviform white and extending GOMDASO meee Merce stohees ccshich ccc bolts ecvenwaanvassseseames . gunetimacula. 6. Fore wing with the clay ifor m minute, slightly defined by Cnn citi ahs i. Aa erschoffi. 6, Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on median nervure, w, Fore wing whitish, the orbicular clongate ............ militaris. 520 NOCTUID. b'. Fore wing blue-grey. pe Fore wing w ith the orbicular narrowand elongate. planifrons. Fore wing with the orbicular large, open above... fidedés. i ‘Wore wing grey, the orbicular absent, a dark streak in) lowerextremity, Of Cells... cnaacessetetess nets siestaer rodea. d', Fore wing grey-brown, the cell suffused with brown before and between the stigmata. a’. Fore wing with the orbicular minute, linear ....... radiola, o?, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. a. Tegula Ose Ghitml sy SaSdoncnacgarsaccs eo seoecden anos ononensis. 6°. Tegule with dark medial line only ............... mendosica. Hoxrenwin os bro bi mutOus meereerecetscssenteenacsteceen artes porphyrea. B. Fore wing w ithout black streak below hase of cell. a, Tegule bladk’at base “04 stu, nee eee spaqrisann00C wee Orned, 6. Tegul not black at base. a‘, Fore wing pale yellow ...... snoo0eoS000D0E seadscemaeseeas flavina. ue Fore wing pale Ochreous ......0e+0e8, pepostpncdecsdsodor ochrina. Hore wing) brich tarnfoustess.-.-s. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown...... erythrina. 6. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area fuscous. a‘. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with biack. a*. Thorax with the crests pale rufous, contrasting ... ochronota. b?. Thorax with the crests concolorous ...............0+¢ semifused. b', Fore wing with the costal area concolorous or DML OD wis wa cecmateseie-meedacnesetonr acces petinsctdeeo tees margaritosa. c. Hind wing entirely white or slightly tinged with fuscous. a, Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a, Fore wing with the orbicular confluent with the remifOrm! 33.4 ceiae- sees walsiseieia se scacisleeieeen se oats demutabilis. b°, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate............... vocalis, c*. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical. a, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent above inner margin .............2.02.00000s eminens, }°, Fore wing with the ante- and postmediai lines not confluent above inner margin. «', Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards ONMEdIAA DErVULC, Viesheeeh chee esa nean see tea elegans. LYCOPHOTIA, joo v4, Fore wing with the reniform not angled in- wards on median nervure...........0.-.cseeeees larivia. d°, Fore wing with the orbicular small, round. a®. Fore wing with the antemedial line strong, OIL! Baer boab noob bation gape uchabas ceuanc: ceoLagoedue grandipennis. °, Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, ; NREL chem e Sob ADSORB Se SEE EHNA SE aE Ean DG TER OR Ue saeeLaunoe pudens, 6. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a>. Fore wing with the cell black before and between the stigmata. ies Hore wing grey-white....2..1s2-hsessceebdernaccaens . tamertana. . Fore wing pale rufous...............222..--e0+eeseeees chaldaica. iHloxelwings brownish preys -e..4-sasesceceaceer see Suncei. b, ee wing w with the cell not filled in with black .. pellucidalis. 927. Lycophotia denticulata. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 14.) Ochropleura denticulata, Warr. P.Z. 8. 1888, p. 807; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 194. Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with black; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft red-brown. Fore wing purplish brown, irrorated with black and slightly suffused with fuscous ; the costal area paler to the postmedial line; a slight black streak below base of cell; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double antemedial line filled in with pale rufous, obsolescent and angled outwards towards costa, below the cell oblique, and slightly sinuous; claviform large, indistinctly outlined with black; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former pale, oblique, open above, the latter with fuscous centre, the cell between them blackish or with small wedge-shaped blackish mark ; postmedial line double, filled in with ochreous, oblique from costa to vein 6, then highly dentate to vein 2 and angled outwards on vein 1; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by diffused dentate black marks on its inner side; a terminal series of black points, a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia pure white ; the underside pale irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. Kasuurr,£Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 2 ; Punsas, Thundiani (Yerbury), 33, type. vp. 60 millim. 928. Lycophotia occulta. Noctua occulta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 514 (1757); Clerck, Icones, pl. 1. f.6; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 79; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153; Smith,Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. Hadena implicata, Lef. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1836, p. 894, pl. 10. f. 4; Herr.- Schaff. Schmett. Eur. f. 652 Agrotis passetii, Th.-Mieg. Le N Vat. 1886, p. 237. Head and thorax grey and fuscous-black mixed; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-white, strongly irrorated and suffused with black-brown and slightly with reddish brown; a black streak below base of cell; the Falvasel line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, filled in with whitish; the 534 NOCTUID®. antemedial line oblique, double, waved, filled in with whitish; the claviform grey, defined by black, large, conical; the orbicular and reniform large, grey defined by black and with some fuscous suffusion at middle, the former oblique, elliptical, open above, the area before, between, and below the stigmata suffused with dark brown; the postmedial line double, dentate, filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique ; the subterminal line formed by a series of dentate whitish and black marks, angled outwards at vein 7, the dentate marks above veins 5 and + almost reaching the postmedial line, excurved between veins 4 and 2, and incurved in submedian interspace; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brownish. Hind wing brown, the cilia white; the underside grey irrorated with brown especially on terminal area; a large discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. implicata. Smaller, duller grey with the markings in- distinct.—Greenland, Finland. Ab. 2. passeti. The ground-colour almost black.—Scotland. Hartz Mts. Hab. Gremntanp; Canapa, Orilla (Bush), 1 ¢, Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., N. & E. States, 1 ¢, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois Colorado ; Evrorn, Central and Southern ; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls., 3 6, 4 9 ; Russia, Finland, 1 ¢,St. Petersburg, 14,19 ; NorrHern Asta; Crntrat Asta; AmurRztAND, Ussuri; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 ¢. Hap. 60-66 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 97; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 108, pl. 150. f. 1. Brown with darker irroration ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale yellowish, the latter including a series of oblique dark marks ; spiracular lines whitish, the dots pale yellowish; head brown. Food-plants: Primula, Taraxacum, ete. 9-5. *929. Lycophotia. prefixa. Agrotis prefixa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 117 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 68. Q. Ash-grey sparsely irrorated with black. Fore wing with the markings fuscous or black ; a small dark basal patch; the sub- basal line double; the antemedial line oblique, sinuous ; claviform strongly defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, concolorous or pale, the former rather oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter erect, narrow, with an unusually straight inner edge; the cell between the stigmata dusky ; a faint, rather narrow medial shade ; postmedial line double at costa, then crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by a broad dark shade and on outer side by a slight shade not reaching costa or inner margin; a lunulate dark terminal line. Hind wing pale fuscous, darker towards termen; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Rocky Mts. Hap. 42 millim. This species is un- known to me. LYCOPHOTIA. 535 930. Lycophotia erythrina. Agrotis erythrina, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849 ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noet. f. 543; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Head and thorax bright purplish red to dark brown, the scales tipped with grey; palpi blackish at sides, whitish at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white: abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing bright purple-red to dark brown slightly irrorated with white ; the costa blackish; a waved blackish subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold, defined by whitish on inner side; a waved antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, and strongly angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1; orbicular and reniform represented by a few white scales; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, dentate and produced to white points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the veins beyond it shghtly streaked with black ; some white points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge, the cilia whitish with brown line at base; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the costal area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. C. & 8S. France, Sand & Zeller Colls. ; Swirzernanp ; Spatrn. Exp. 30-34 millim. 931. Lycophotia ochronota, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 15.) @. Head and thorax fuscous black; palpi in front and at extremity and lower part of frons pale ochreous; tegule tipped with ochreous ; dorsal crest ochreous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing ochreous brown, strongly irrorated with dark brown; the costal area to below the cell suffused with fuscous ; indistinct double, waved, black subbasal and antemedial lines filled in with ochreous, the former extending to vein 1, the latter oblique; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform large, black with ochreous annuli, the former elliptical ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an ochreous subterminal line angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it fuscous ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins brown; the costal and terminal areas broadly brown ; cilia ochreous white, with a brown line at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a postmedial series of dark points on the veins. Hab. Urnvevay (Darwin), 1 2 type. Exp. 50 millim. 932. Lycophotia semifusca. (Plate LXXIY. fig. 16.) Agrotis semifusca, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 129. 3. Head and thorax fuscous black; palpi pale at extremities ; abdomen fuscous, with greyish segmental lines. Fore wing pale brownish grey irrorated with fuscous ; the costal area broadly suffused 536 NOCTUID &. with fuscous ; traces of a waved double subbasal line from costa to vein 1; an indistinct waved double antemedial line obsolete on the pale area; claviform represented by a dark spot; orbieular and reniform large, with brownish annuli defined by black and fuscous centres, the former somewhat elliptical ; traces of a dentate post- medial line produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the veins, costal area, and termen suffused with fuscous; cilia white, with a brown line at base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a postmedial series of dark points on the veins. 2. Fore wing with the ground-colour fuscous to the postmedial line, the terminal area brown suffused with fuscous; claviform well developed and defined by black; hind wing with the terminal area broadly suffused with brown. Hab, Cutter (Edmonds), 1 S type, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 19. Ewp. 44 millim. 933. Lycophotia margaritosa. Noctua margaritosa, Haw. Lep. Br. p. 218 (1809). Noctua saucia, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 378 (1827); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. Noctua equa, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 564 (1827). rotis orophila, Geyer, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. v. p. 7, ff. 809, 810 (1837). Agrotis inermis, Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass. p. 523 (1841). Spelotis stictica, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, vii. p. 75, pl. 6. f. 8 (1854). Spelotis infuscata, Blanch. Gay’s Chile, vii. p. 74 (1854). Agrotis impacta, W\k. x. 837 (1856). Agrotis intecta, Wik. x. 838 (1856). Agrotis ambrosioides, W\k. xi. 738 (1857). Agrotis angulifera, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). Agrotis ortonti, Pack. 1st Rep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 63 (1869). Noctua equa, ab. philippsi, Caspari, Jahrb. Nass. lii. p. 201, pl. iv. ff. 14, 15 (1899). Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous; palpi fuscous except towards extremity ; thoracic crest often whitish; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with brown ; 1 Fig. 92.—Lycophotia margaritosa, G. 3. a double waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a double waved antemedial line; claviform moderate, with brown outline and line in centre; orbicular and reniform large with brown outlines, the former elliptical, the latter with fuscous in its lower portion; the LYCOPHOTIA. SP3i7( postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- terminal line ochreous, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, with fuscous spots on its inner side at costa and on its outer from below apex to middle; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and marginal areas brown ; the underside with discoidai point and the costal area irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing dark brown, the last with the costal area, orbicular, subterminal area, and an apical patch grey. Ab. 2. saucia. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more uniform grey-brown. Hab. Canapa (Norman), 13; U.S.A., Eastern States, 4 5,39, Kansas, 2 ¢, 1 9, California, Sanzalito, 4 g, 4 9: Mexico (Sallé), 1 g, 2 @, type intecta, Sonora (Morrison), 1 ¢, Durango (Lorrer, Becker), 1 8,3 9, Misantla (Trujillo), 1 9, Milpas (Forrer), 1d, 19, Jalapa (Hoege), 2 3,1 9, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 9 ; GuaTEMALa * (Champion), 1 Q , Tram (Rogers), 5 $,1Q; Cosra Rica (Underwood), 1 g,2 9, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Jamaica, 1 2; Coromsra, Bogota (Stevens), 2 2 type ambrosioides; VENEZUELA, 1 2 type wmpacta; Brazit, Rio Janeiro, 1 ¢; Cutte (Edmonds), 1 g, Valparaiso (J. J. Walker), 1 3,1 9, Payta (J.J. Walker), 1 3, types Tt & stetica and 2 infuscata in Mus. Paris; Argentina, type T angulifera im Mus. Stockholm; Azores, Flores (J. J. Walker), 1 3 ; CaNARIES (Leech), 1 3d, 1 9; Brrrary, Ireland; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Avusrrra; N. Arrica; ARMENIA ; Asta Minor; Syria, Brussa, 2 ¢,1 9 ; Prrsra, Fao (Cumming), 1 $ ; Hawam (Perkins),1 9. Hap. 40-52 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 872, pl. 185. f. 1. (Redescribed.) Head 3 millim., pale brown, weakly reticulate in dark brown, curved vertical band broad and distinct, well bent at apex of clypeus, line upward from eye not strong, brownish. Body brown, the cream-coloured ground not so fully obscured by brown dots and mottlings as usual, predominant subdorsally posteriorly and over the posterior dorsal half of somite 12; dorsal line pale, obscure, broken but forming a series of often prominent whitish patches on somites 4 to 7: brown oblique subdorsal shades faint, forming rather distinct darker edging, the pale subdorsal line above and a triangular dorsal patch on somite 12 anteriorly joining the subdorsal streaks of that segment. Lateral area with dark brown mottled oblique shades, reversed in direction to the subdorsal ones. Substigmatai band obscure, broadly reddish filled, edged above by undulating pale line, shading below into pale subventral area. A general feeder.—H. G. D. 34. Lycophotia demutabilis. (Piate LXXIV. fig. 17.) Peridroma demutabilis, Smith, Insect Life, v. p. 328, f. 46 (1893). @. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown; sides of palpi and frons blackish; tegule tipped with black ; tibia and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous 538 NOCLUID®. Fore wing grey-white; the veins slightly defined by brownish streaks ; some brownish suffusion on costal area, in cell and below its extremity ; a black streak below basal half of cell, with some brownish on its lower edge ; claviform elongate, pointed at extremity and defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform white prominently defined by black, the former elongate and confluent with the Jatter, which has a brown centre and with its lower extremity somewhat angled inwards on median neryure; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being suffused with black, consisting of short oblique black streaks below veins 7 and 6 running obliquely from near termen to an angle in discal fold, then excurved, somewhat dentate and below vein 3 incurved; a fine terminal black line ; cilia white slightly tinged with brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the cilia pure white; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with black, a slight discoidal lunule. Hab, U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co.,1 ¢. Hep. 30 millim. 935. Lycophotia vocalis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 18.) Agrotis vocalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 56 (1879) ; id. Ill. Essay, 54, pl. ii. f. 15; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 77. Agrotis invenusta, Grote, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. vill. p. 48 (1883). Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous black and some- times slightly with brown ; palpi black except at tips; tegule with the tips black or dark brown with white line before them ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly irrorated with black and often with some rufous suffusion on medial area below the cell; a black streak usually present below the cell from base to beyond the antemedial line ; the subbasal line angled outwards below costa and ending at the streak; the ante- medial line black, minutely dentate, oblique, with a longer tooth above inner margin ; the cell black before and between the stigmata defining the orbicular, which is elongate and often almost connected with the inner edge of the reniform, which is undefined on outer side; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then oblique; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area slightly tinged with brown. Underside of both wings with discoidal spots and curved postmedial line obsolete except towards costa; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. cnvenusta. Darker, the markings of fore wing indistinct. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 2b, 2 9 type, Nevada, 1 g, New Mexico. wp. 38 millim. 936. Lycophotia eminens. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 19.) Graphiphora eminens, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 106, pl. 1. £. 3 (1855); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. Agrotis excellens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 107. Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with dark brown; palpi blackish except at tips; tegule black at base and tips, patagia LYCOPHOTIA. 539 irrorated with some black scales; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brownish grey; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to submedian fold and with some blackish marks beyond it, most prominent below the cell; the antemedial line double, black, bent outwards below costa and angled outwards above inner margin, where it becomes confluent with the double postmedial line, which is minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique, below vein 2 slightly excurved, then running inwards to join the antemedial line above inner margin; stigmata with pale streaks on brown centres and grey annuli defined by black; the claviform very large; the orbicular oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between the stigmata filled in with brown and the base of interspaces from vein 7 to below 2 filled in with brown; the sub- terminal line represented by a series of ochreous dentate marks with dentate black marks before them, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine waved terminal line and line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins tinged with brown; a fine terminal line and line through the cilia; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. W..Siperta, Altai; W. Turkestan, Sir-Darya, 1 ¢,1 92, Saisan, Issyk-kul; E. Turxesran, Ii. Ewp. 42 millim. 937. Lycophotia elegans. Noctua elegans, Ev. Bull. Mose. 1837, p. 33; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Hadena grammiptera, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 119 (1840); Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 450, pl. 40. f. 1; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. fall, Ie ff. 5, 4. Noctua cancellata, Frey. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. iv. pl. 808. f. 2 (1842). $. Head and thorax white mixed with brown and black ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tegule blackish at base and with black medial line; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen white. Fore wing pale fuscous brown; the veins streaked with white to the postmedial line ; the subbasal line represented by oblique black strie from costa and median nervure, defined by white on outer side and with some black suffusion between them and the antemedial line, which is defined by white on each side, angled outwards above and below subcostal nervure, then oblique, and above inner margin very strongly angled outwards ; claviform large, pointed at extremity, defined by white and black; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former with brown centre, oblique, elliptical, the latter with white centre defined by brown and angled strongly inwards on median nervure, the area between them more or less suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line defined by white on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a blackish patch at costa, then by a series of elongate wedge-shaped marks; a fine terminal black line. Hind wing white with diffused subterminal brownish band and fine 540 _ NOCIUIDE. terminal line; the underside with rather indistinct sinuous post- medial line. 2. Hind wing with the terminal half, or almost entirely, suffused with brown. Hab. France, Sand Coll.; N. Sparx; Greece, Mts.; 8S. Russra, Sarepta, Zeller Coll.; Anrmenta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus ; Syria, Leech Coll.; Porsta; W. Srperta, Zeller Coll., Altai; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul. wp. 38-40 millim. 938. Lycophotia larixia. Agrotis larivia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 310 (1852); Herr.-Schiiff, Neue Schmett. f. 125; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. G. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulee with black medial line and white tips; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the anal tuft with ochreous. Fore wing pale brown: the veins streaked with white to the postmedial line; the subbasal line repre- sented by oblique black striz from costa and median nervure, defined by white on outer side and the latter with diffused black streak beyond it; the antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, somewhat oblique and very strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform large, defined by whitish and black ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between them slightly suffused with black; an indistinct diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks ; cilia pale, with a black line through them. Hind wing pale suffused with fuscous : the cilia white, with a brown line at base ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Alps of 8. Francr and N.Irary, 2 3; ARMENIA; PuERsIA ; W. Turxesran, Mts. Hap, 42 millim. *939. Lycophotia grandipennis. (Plate LX XIV. fig. 20.) Agrotis grandipennis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 54 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. d. Grey tinged with purplish red-brown; abdomen whitish. Fore wing with the veins slightly streaked with black; a dark streak below base of cell; the antemedial line indistinctly double, dentate, strongly above inner margin; the other lines obsolete or only marked at costa; orbicular small, round, pale with a dark point at centre; reniform small, ill-defined, pale with red-brown centre ; a slight dark streak between and beyond the stigmata; a distinct terminal series of black marks. Hind wing white slightly tinged with fuscous, the veins darker; the underside whitish, with darker discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. Ewp. 45-52 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. LYCOPHOTLA. 541 940. Lycophotia rudens. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 21.) Agrotis rudens, Hary. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 271 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 3. Head pale yellow or orange-yellow; palpi black-brown, whitish at tips; tegul pale yellow at base, then with black medial band, the tips grey pencilled with brown; thorax grey pencilled with brown and often tinged with purple-red; legs banded with black ; abdomen grey-white irrorated with brown, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with red on outer half of wing; a black streak below the cell from near base to near middle, downcurved towards base; traces of waved subbasal and antemedial lines, the former ending at vein 1; orbicular and reniform small, grey with slight fuscous centres, defined by black and with black fascia above median nervure from before the orbicular to the reniform ; a post- medial series of black points; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being brown except at apex, where there is a grey patch, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, and 3; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihy aline white, the veins, costa, and termen slightly tinged with brown ; the cilia white, with a brown line at base; the eaadenside with the costal area Gecoeated with brown ; a terminal series of black points on costal half of wing. ©. Head and base of tegule whitish instead of yellow. Hab, U.S.A., Texas, 2 6,1 9,type. Hp. 38-40 millim. 941. Lycophotia tamerlana. (Plate LXXIYV. fig. 22.) Agrotis tumerlana, Bang-Haas, ined. Head and thorax white irrorated with black; palpi blackish except at tips; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-white sparsely irrorated with black; a slight waved snignaeel line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly sinuous, oblique towards costa ; orbicular and reniform Jarge, the former oblique and confluent with the latter at lower extremity, both open above and below and with slightly defined pale annuli, an L-shaped black-brown patch in cell before the former anda triangular patch between them; postmedial line indistinct, double, with a black point at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; the subterminal line formed by a series of fuscous lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black Tans and a line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. W. Turkestan, Sir-Darya, 1 g¢,1 9. Hep. 42 millim. 942. Lycophotia chaldaica. Noctua chaldaica, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 140 (1840); Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 481, pl. 41. f.5; Frey. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. iv. pl. 304. f, Ik. Herr.-Schiff, Eur. conte Noct. f. 110; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. Agrotis spodia, Ping. Iris, xii. p. 289 (1899). 542 NOCTIUID®. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi dark brown except at base ; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with pale rufous; a curved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold interrupted at cell; a double subbasal line excurved from costa to submedian fold and above inner margin, the outer line prominently black from costa to submedian fold ; claviform often slightly defined by whitish above; orbicular and reniform large with narrow white annuli, the former oblique, rather V-shaped, open above, the cell before and between them black ; traces of a medial shade from cell to inner margin ; a double postmedial line with a series of points on the veins beyond it, arising from a small black spot on costa, excurved from just below costa to vein 4, then oblique and sinuous; the subterminal line grey, defined by red-brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing pure white, the veins slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. spodia. Fore wing grey without rufous tinge. Hab. Russta, Sarepta, 1 ¢, Urals, 1 $; W. Srperia, 2 3,1 9, Altai; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Ala-tau, Issyk-kul; E, TurKesran, Ili. “vp. 40-44 millim. *943, Lycophotia funcei. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 23.) Agrotis funkei, Ping. Deutsche ent. Zeit., Lep. xiv. p. 181, pl. 2. ff. 1, 2 (1901). Head and thorax brownish grey thickly irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line represented by double black strize from costa and cell; antemedial line double, prominent, rather irregularly waved and slightly oblique; claviform strongly and diffusedly defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, open above, the cell black before and between the stigmata, a blackish streak in discoidal fold from reniform to sub- terminal line; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; sub- terminal line indistinct, dentate, and defined on inner side by an irregular series of dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown; cilia white with brown line at base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, type f in Coll. Piingeler, Exp. 40 millim. 944. Lycophotia pellucidalis. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 24.) Agrotis pellucidalis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 567 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. 3. Head fulvous yellow; palpi black, whitish at tips; tegule fulvous at base, with brown medial line, the tips grey pencilled LYCOPHOTIA. 543 with brown ; thorax grey irrorated with brown, the patagia with blackish edge above; legs banded black and white ; abdomen grey strongly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey strongly irrorated with brown; a double subbasal line from costa to vein 1 interrupted in cell ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform rather small, outlined with brown ; orbicular and reniform small, grey with fuscous centres and black outlines ; a curved dentate postmedial line produced to points on the veins; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being dark, except at apex where there is a grey patch, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; some terminal black points on costal half of wing. 2. Head and base of tegule grey and brown. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 ¢,1 9 type. Ewvp. 38 millim. B. (Hapalia.) Pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests, a. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a‘, Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on median nervure. a, Fore wing with the reniform confluent with Oye OMOMIEND’ 55 ,coouacsagodoonsqnousussoubauendoosasomadsant ocellina. b°. Fore wing with the reniform separate from OiISHEMIEN?) cocchooopobeoonnocopnooohnapooss cboKdqHndcnadano alpestris. }, Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on median nervure. GWT LOR Ace Rats orice one oecmioente Pena Soasmocletedeaae multifida. 14, Fore wing with the veins not streaked with {Hil AN > cad ob oGoaaoboapdsbavoonconoébobonnsaqcboxcDseES degeniata. 2°, Fore wing with the cell not filled in by black. a‘, Fore wing with the orbicular elongate, open DOVE seeeeneeeee si seeeritaceces AcobaDHEbESHOUEOOUE truculenta. 24. Fore wing with the orbicular entire, diamond-shapedireccseceeeescecsaeeecesacesee toxistigma. 6°, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. a®, Fore wing with the lines prominent ............ hahni. 4°, Fore wing with the lines obsolete. a‘. Fore wing with the orbicular absent ........ . adored. }*, Fore wing with the orbicular present. a°, Fore wing with the cell black before and between the stigmata .......0...-seeceeeeeeee microstigma. }°. Fore wing without black in cell .......... .. interrupta. c*, Fore wing with the ground-colour white, a black streak in and beyond end of cell .............00065 candelisequa. }. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a', Tegule with medial patch and tips black or rufous, mwscosa, 6, Teeule with black basal band. a, Kore wing with black patch between the stigmata. a, Fore wing with black patch before orbicular. Ditriangular, >’, Fore wing without black patch before orbi- (UIE agahbonsébcdoon obec OHOOSO UCB AUACOOBOnCECONOCE COC tsopleura. b°. Fore wing without black patch between the stigmata. 544 NOCTUID®. . Fore wing with the postmedial line straight from vein 6 to Inner Margin ...........ee eee eee b%, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved beyond the cell. a’, Fore wing with dark striation. a®, Fore wing with the terminal area darker ee the : ground-colour, . Fore wing with the terminal area brightprutousiierce-wes-ceeeeecerseseaeerense b°. Fore wing with the terminal area dullirufous "or auscous* nposetsesseteaeess b®, Fore wing with the terminal area con- colorous. a°, Fore wing striated with rufous ......... b°. Fore wing striated with fuscous. a’. Fore wing with the antemedial line slightly angled outwards above inner TERA SL Beso ogsuorunoneconaodaooncasosBu—er . Fore wing with the antemedial ling strongly angled outwards above Maye ETO WEEN Ges coodecesonnecencoensbCe Bg cate wing with dark irroration. Ree wing with the lines obsolescent. . Fore wing with the orbicular more or less developed. a’. Fore wing strongly irrorated with MUITOOVWS} -onnaopcoanaghéacqnoooovespsqccasc0~ 27, Fore wing slightly irrorated with RURTEORIS caonaadoodsconcondeogucens69SedeeneC Be Fore wing with the orbicular obsolete . Fore wing with the lines prominent ...... Lat without black basal band. a2, Hind wing pure white in male, the terminal _area sometimes tinged with brown in female. . Fore wing with black patch in cell between the stigmata. at, Fore wing with the orbicular large, V- Shaped ............cssceseseeeetetseceeteerteeeerees 14. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded ...... b°. Fore wing without black patch in cell between the stigmata. at. Fore wing with the stigmata very large, rounded, and with ochreous annuli ......... b4, Fore wing with the stigmata small or obsolete, ‘without ochreous annuli. a®, Fore wing with prominent black sub- Be: line. . Fore wing with the stigmata present... Fore wing with the stigmata obsolete . Ohoe wing with the subbasal line in- distinct or absent. a. Fore wing with dark irroration. a7, Fore wing grey-brown. a8, Fore wing with the stigmata represented by distinct “black MEDASE) GgopdonakoshoBaob coocadeaconceDeT b8. Fore wing with the stigmata almost obsolete dgnandaenadacascooncecocs Goc8e 27, Fore wing red-brown with prominent cebite Ronlfornt’, 4 aaa eee . Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous and with black striation and. ARONENHO, Soaqranaouodonooowdonandaca0D ane orthogramma. ignicans. infecta. biformis. messia, melanobasis. Serruginescens. minna. digna. atricincta. gaurax. margaritacea. insignata. butlert. yaxcaba, simplicia. aspersa. diana, atrisparsa. LYCOPHOTIA. 545 22, Hind wing yellowish white. a, Fore wing ochreous thickly irrorated with blacker sses. spagnucngcgonoonanuoddee scecpacedossuesenecs (OARRORtIAUs 43, Fore wing rufous suffused ‘with fuscous.. Suscirifa, ae Fore wing black-brown irrorated with grey ... funebris, . Hind wing white, the terminal area more or less suffused ‘with brown in both sexes. a>, Fore wing grey to grey-brown. a. se wing not suffused with red-brown. . Fore wing with black patch in cell between the stigmata ..........:.::eeeeeeees SOrdescens, &°, Fore wing without black patch in cell between the stigmata, a®. Fore wing with the lines obsolete ...... ¢enwescens, b®, Fore wing with the lines present ....... conchidia, }*. Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with red- brown. , Fore wing with the lines represented by black spots on costa. a®. Fore wing with the costa not white. a’. Fore wing without dark centre to reniform ..... Pe sees teers ..... differens, b7. Fore wing with dark centre to reni- form. Fore wing with the orbicular AIOEEMH oeoneagnqnocosboacsagaoste ooccsde exuberans. b3. Kore wing with the orbicular dev eloped See oar ORCA DAE -s... postventa. Fore wing with the costal edge white... costigera. oie wing with the lines well- developed. — ve Sone wing with the lines single. . Fore wing with the panier absent. /Juhricans. a Fore wing with the orbicular present. pu/verea, +°, Fore wing with the lines double.:....... pudens, b°: ee wing with the ground-colour pale ochreous. a‘. Fore wing with the lines represented by black points on costa ........-. sodsebacenadscacs |» CUOOnOG: }*. Fore wing with the lines prominent ......... vallesiaca. 2. Hind wing more or less strongly tinged with fuscous “throughout. a, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey or grey- -brown to pale reddish brown or ochreous. os poe wing broad, triangular. . Fore wing with the orbicular produced to a point on outer VG Cache puorondoceecord so--8 paecia, . Fore wing with the orbicular rounded or obsolete. . Fore wing without rufous or ochreous roe . Fore wing with medial line. Fore wing very prominently irrorated with dark brown......... Sugar. b>. Fore wing less prominently irro- rated with fuscous. , Fore wing with the ground- colour brownish ....... a eers ited photophila, 3° Forewing with the ground-colour BICY ceeeeeeeeees spngongcotconemno ZA Ree 67, Fore wing without medial line .a ue Caradrinotides, VOL. IV. 2N 546 NOCTUID®. 4°, Forewing tinged with rufousor ochreous. a’. Fore wing with the antemedial line single. a’, Fore wing with the orbicular present. a’, Fore wing with the stigmata distinct, pale. « 10 Fore wing with the ante- medial line strongly angled outwardsabove inner margin. hadjina. 6°, Fore wing with the ante- medial line not angled out- wards above inner margin... macrina. 6°, Fore wing with the stigmata indistinct. a’, Fore wing with the ground- colour yellowish grey ......... devota. 6'°, Fore wing with a more rufous TING! ......se eee ee eeeeeee ee eeeees renigera. bo. Fore wing with the orbicular obsolete. aw. Fore wing with the terminal AeA CONCOLOT OUST. necceccom esses pudica, . Fore wing with the fenainal area darker. a°. Fore wing with the lines pr ane eee ee umbrifera. 10° Fore wing with “the lines ObSOlesCeNt eye ce-tee-seeeeeeeeio spreta, . Fore wing with the antemedial | ine double. a>. Fore wing with the terminal area Garks ccrcewwancsmnaseecceascneesmccnsecst Jimbriola. b°. Fore wing with fhe terminal area concolorous Sal We Se ont Resneendlie brunnescens, Fore wing narrow, elongate...............+ we. mmolihbdoida, - ok wing Brown suffused with black ........ . nanialis. ©’, Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-green, odiveata. d*, Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-green. z+, Fore wing with dentate black marks before subterminal lim ef ees setecesseecesceeccsss crannies precurrens, b*, Fore wing without dentate black marks before subterminal line ...................--.- . precox, 945. Lycophotia ocellina. Noctua ocellina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 313 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 129, 439; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 221, pl. 65. f. 1; Boisd. Ie. ol WGe 1 335 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. Noctua phytewme, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 192. ff. 3, 4 (1786). Agrotis transiens, Stand, Iris, ix. p. 246 (1896). Head and thorax reddish brown to dark brown mixed with grey ; tegule with black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings to the joints ; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown or dark brown mixed with pale brown; the veins with pale streaks to the postmedial line; the subbasal line represented by black striee from costa and median nervure defined by whitish on outer side and with a short black streak beyond them in submedian fold; the antemedial line defined by greyish on inner side, slightly LYCOPHOTIA. 5AT angled outwards below costa, then oblique and strongly angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elongate, defined by whitish and black; orbicular and reniform whitish with brown centres, the former oblique, elliptical, or small and round, the latter strongly angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between them black; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled outwards on vein 1; the subterminal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, defined on inner side by aseries of dentate black marks; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with blackish line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through them ; the underside with the costal area ereyish, an ill-defined curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. transiens. Paler and intermediate to alpestris, of which it may be a variety.—C. Asia. Hab, France, Pyrenees; Swrrzertanp, Valais, Engadine, Ortler, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; AustRUa, Tyrol, ‘en Glockner ; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Norway, Zeller Coll.; Russra, St. Petersburg ; W. Srperta, Altai; W. Turkestan, Tapehoca, Issyk-kul, Ala Tan, Tarbagatai; E.TurKxesran, Thian-Shan Mts.; Moneorra, Uliassutai, Changai Mts.; Tiser, Amdo, Lwp, 30-34 millim. 946. Lycophotia alpestris. Noctua ocellina, Hibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 599 (nee Schiff.). Chersotis alpestris, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Hur. pl. 76. ff 4,5 (1832); Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 454, pl. 40; Herr.-Schaff., Schmett. Kur. u. pl. 1 ff. 5, 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. ? Head and thorax reddish brown to fuscous brown mixed with grey; tegule with black medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen ochreous or greyish irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown; the veins with pale streaks to the postmedial line; the subbasal line represented by oblique black striz from costa and median nervure, defined by whitish on outer side and with slight black streak beyond it in submedian fold; the ante- medial line double, filled in with greyish, the outer line strong, blackish, slightly angled outwards below costa and in cell and more strongly above inner margin; the claviform elongate, defined by whitish and black; the orbicular and reniform with whitish centres defined by brown and whitish annuli defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter more or less strongly angled inwards on median nervure, the cell between them slightly suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line defined by greyish on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it with greyish dentate marks defining the dark veins and interdigitating with the series of dentate black marks before the indistinct greyish subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, slightly excurved and somewhat dentate at middle; cilia »” ) am LS 548 NOCTUID&E. ochreous with a brown line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards base in male; cilia ochreous white with a brown line through them; the underside paler, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Hab, France, Pyrenees; N. Spain Mts.; Swirzertanp, Valais, Engadine, Frey and Leech Colls.; Norway, Zeller Coll. ; Russta, Urals; Armenta; Syrta, Leech Coll.: Prrs1a; W. Turxzsran ; Siberia, Zeller Coll.; Kamscuarka. wp, 34 millim. 947. Lycophotia multifida. Agrotis multifida, Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge, xiii. p. 46, pl. 1. f. 10 (1870) ; Rebel, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1899, p. 165, pl. 4. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown; tegule whitish, with black patch at tips; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale reddish brown, irrorated and in places suffused with black ; the veins streaked with white; a sinuous black streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa ; antemedial line obsolete from costa to median nervure, then double, angled outwards below cell and very strongly to join the post- medial line at inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by black at extremity ; the cell fled in with black; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black and their centres by fuscous, the former oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate, strongly bent out- wards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, and very oblique below vein 4 to join the antemedial line at inner margin; sub- terminal line only defined by a series of dentate black marks on its inner side interrupted between veins 7 and 3; a terminal series of small black lunules; a pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and margins tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, some postmedial dark points on the veins. Hab. Austria, Tyrol, 19; Huneary ; Anwenta, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 34-36 millim. 948. Lycophotia degeniata. Agrotis degeniata, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. p. 244, pl. 6. f 18 (1876) ; id. Rom. Mém. ii. pl. xii. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Agrotis defuncta, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 243, pl. 4. f. 8 (1896). Agrotis persica, Staud. Tris, ix. p. 248 (1896). Q. Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips ; vertex of head with black spot ; tegule with black lines near base and extremity ; patagia with black patches ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous whitish, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with fuscous; the subbasal line represented by black striz from costa; a black streak in sub- median fold to the antemedial line, which is double, dentate, and rather indistinet ; clayiform slightly outlined with black and with a LYCOPHOTIA. 549 black streak from it to postmedial line; orbicuiar and reniform brownish ochreous defined by black, the former elliptical, the cell before and between them black, a black streak from the reniform to the postmedial line, which is double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line ochreous defined by black suffusion before it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, then angled inwards in submedian fold ; a ter- minal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with fuscous brown; the veins darker; the cilia ochreous white ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved postmedial line on costal area. Ab. 1. defuncta. Browner; fore wing with the markings more distinct. —Issyk-kul, Ii. Hab. Persts; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-kul, 1 92; EK. Turkestan, Hi. Hap. 42-46 millim. 949. Lycophotia truculenta. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 26.) Agrotis truculenta, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 367, pl.3. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 3. Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with black ; patagia edged with blackish; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey suffused with ochreous brown ; claviform along narrow streak extending almost to base and defined by black except above towards base; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and whitish annuli, the former very elongate wedge-shaped and defined by black except above towards base, the latter defined by black on inner side and slightly on outer side and below; some white points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line indistinct, whitish, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a series of wedge-shaped black marks; a waved terminal black line; cilia whitish, with brown lines through them. Hind wing white, the veins towards termen and a fine terminal line brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. W.Srserta, 1 3g, Zeller Coll., Altai; W. Turxesran, Issyk- kul; E, Turxesray, I. Hap. 44 millim, 950. Lycophotia toxistigma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 27.) 3. Head and thorax pale brown mixed with black ; tegnlze with black medial line and tips ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing brownish white; the veins streaked with fuscous; a black streak below base of cell confluent with the clavi- form, which is elongate, defined by black and filled in with fuscous 5 subbasal line represented by two black spots on costa, the antemedial line by two black spots on costa and an angle above inner margin ; cell filled in with fuscous; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and white annuli defined by black, the former diamond- shaped, the latter large; postmedial line represented by two black spots on costa; subterminal line white, punctiform, angled outwards 550 NOCTUID 2. Lad at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, defined on inner side by a prominent series of dentate black marks defined by whitish V- shaped marks; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing pure white with fine brown terminal line. Hab. Syrta, 1 g type. Eevp. 36 millim. 951. Lycophotia hahni. Agrctis hahni, Christ. Rom. Mém, ii. p. 33, pl. 2. f. 8 (1885); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 3. Head and thorax ochreous; palpi blackish at sides; tegulie blackish in front ; patagia irrorated with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous slightly tinged with fuscous, the terminal area strongly suffused with black ; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, in which there is a short black streak from its extremity ; the antemedial line oblique, double, the inner slight, the outer strong, black, excurved below costa and cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a small black lunule at its extremity, with a streak from it to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by the cell before and between them and the area between the latter and postmedial line being black, the former rather produced on outer side ; traces of a waved medial line ; the postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by black suffusion before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and dentate at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown; underside white, the costal area tinged with peiieate: Q. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer and less pehreoae! the last more suffused with fuscous and with the black markings rather less prominent. Hab, Armenia; N, Persia, Askhabad, 1 ¢,1 9; W. Turxesran. Exp., & 34, 9 38 millim. *952, Lycophotia adorea. (Plate LX XVIII. fig. 3.) Leucania adorea, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 233 (1894). co. Head and thorax violaceous white ; palpi dark brown except at tips; vertex of head, basal joint of antenna, and medial and terminal bands on tegule dark brown; pectus brown mixed with purple; legs white above, blackish below; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface pinkish. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated with black, the veins streaked with brown defined by whitish ; a black fascia below the cell from base to origin of vein 2; orbicular a small elliptical black spot; a brown fascia in lower end of cell; some brown suffusion beyond upper angle of cell; some brown in subterminal part of discal fold and above and below vein 2; some slight subterminal streaks on LYCOPHOTIA. 551 apical half. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with the costal area tinged and irrorated with brown, some black points on apical part of costa. Hab. Braztt, Sao Paulo, typet ¢ in Coli, Schaus. Lup. 34 millim. *953. Lycophotia microstigma. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 4.) Lycophotia microstigma, Schaus, ined. 3. Head and thorax ochreous ; tegulee at tips and thorax mixed with reddish brown and black ; palpi black except at tips ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface paler with some black irrora- tion. Fore wing grey, with a violaceous tinge and slight black irroration; the costal area ochreous white to beyond middle; a black streak in base of submedian fold expanding as a fascia to median nervure before middle; median nervure streaked with ochreous white; a black fascia in cell from middle to extremity interrupted by the small, round, white orbicular stigma; renitorm small, with blackish centre and white annulus; postmedial lne represented by a series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; some fuscous suffusion in terminal parts of discal and submedian folds; subterminal line represented by a series of small indistinct dentate marks ; a terminal series of small triangular black marks. Hind wing semihyaline white, with some dark points on termen; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black. Hab. Brazit, Castro Parafia, type ¢ in Coll. Schaus. Hvp. 30 millim. *954. Lycophotia interrupta. Agrotis interrupta, Mssn. Stiibel’s Reise, p. 144, pl. 6. f. 25 (1890). 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Fore wing grey; a black fascia below base of cell; the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete ; the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata, which are small, rounded, with black centres and outlines; subterminal line only defined by a series of black points on its inner side and more prominent mark at costa. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with fuscous. Hab, Ecuavor, Guayaquil. vp. 32 millim. This species is unknown tome; type in Mus. Berlin, the structural characters examined by Prof. Karsch. 955. Lycophotia candelisequa. Noctua candelisequa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 72 (1776); Hiibn. Voge. & Schm. pl. 55; id. Samml. Kur. Schmett., Noct. f. 397; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 72, pl. 77. f.2; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 332 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 143. Noctua sagittifera, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 5382 (1827). Agrotis rana, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 367. Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown; palpi black, white at tips; patagia with some black scales on their upper edge ; 552 NOCLUIDA. tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white, slightly tinged with pale brown. Fore wing white, irrorated with brown and tinged with pale brown in cell, discal and submedian folds, and on terminal area ; the veins slightly streaked with black ; a black streak in submedian fold from base to below origin of vein 2 ; the subbasal line indistinct, brownish, from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; the antemedial line indistinct, brownish, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and incurved between those points, a black streak from it in cell to the subterminal line passing below the stigmata, which are white defined by black and the brown suffusion between them in cell; the orbicular small, round or elongate elliptical ; the pestmedial line diffused, brownish, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, defined by the arca beyond it being tinged with brown and with dentate black marks on its inner side between veins 7 and 2; cilia greyish, inter- sected with red-brown. Hind wing pure white, the veins sometimes brownish towards termen; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, Ab. 1. rana. Paler; fore wing without black fasciz or trans- verse Jines.—Persia; C. Asia. Hab, Alps of Francn, Swtrzertanp and N, Iraty, Frey & Leech Colls.; Ausrxia, Zeller Coll.; Hunoary; Armenia; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus; Prrsia; W. Turkestan, Fergana, Issyk-kul ; W. Siperia, Altai; E. Turxesran, li, “vp. 44-46 millim. 956. Lycophotia muscosa. Mentarya muscosa, Geyer, Samml. Exot. Schmett. p. 10. 414, ff. 827, 828 (1837). Eugraphe albifrons, Geyer, Samml, Exot. Schmett. p. 17. 450, ff. 859, 860 (1827). Agrotis rimosa, Guen. Noct. 1. p. 277 (1852). Agrotis ignicollis, W\k. xi. 740 (1857). Agrotis amatura, W\k. xv. 1700 (1858). Diphtera cumulata, Wik. xxxii. 613 (1865). Agrotis varia, Wik. xxxii. 694 (1865). Dianthecia eramen, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 109. f. 15 (1874). Agrotis decipiens, Feld. Reis, Noy. pl. 110. f. 17 (1874). Head white and pale brown ; palpi except at tips and antenne black ; tegule green at base, with black medial line, rufous and blackish at tips; thorax rufous and blackish; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally suffused with fuscous, and with lateral, sublateral, and ventral series of small black spots. Fore wing sap-green irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, defined by white on outer side and with two black spots before it; a white antemedial line angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on median nervure and yein 1], the area between it and the subbasal line suffused with black except towards inner margin ; claviform repre- sented by a black point; orbicular and reniform whitish, irrorated with green and defined by black, the former elliptical, the latter often with brownish centre, a black bar between them; a dentate LYCOPHOTIA. 553 white postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinet dentate whitish subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a quadrate black patch on costa before it. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area sometimes tinged with brown and some dark points on termen; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and curved series of points on the veins. Ab. 1. albifrons. Fore wing without the green tinge. Ab. 2. decipiens. Thorax purple-brown, the tegule white with semicircular black patch, the metathoracic tuft white; fore wing with the quadrate antemedial, medial, and subterminal black patches on costa much more e prominent. Ab. 3. amatura, Thorax as in decipiens but black ; fore wing with the ground-colour white instead of green, the costal patches very prominent, a white streak in base of cell. Hab, Somatitand, Galla country (Gillett), 1 9; Br. HE. Arrica, Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 2, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 9, Eb Urru ( Betton), 19; Transvaat (Ross), 1 2; Nara, Estcourt (Hutchinson), Durban (Gooch, Leigh), 2 3,5 2, type anatura; Basvrocann, Masite, 1 2, Khamalani (Crawshay), 1 2; C. Cotony, Transkei (Miss F, Barrett), 26,11 92, Knysna, Cape Town (Simith, Gucinzius, Trimen), 2 3,5 2, types varia and cumulata ; Mapagascar, Betsileo (Cowan, Cory), 32. Hap, 36-42 millim. 957. Lycophotia bitriangula. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 28.) Agrotis bitriangula, Hmpsn. Ann. 8.-Afr. Mus. ii. p. 261 (1902). Grey; palpi black except at tips; antennae blackish; tegule black, edged with grey. Fore wing purplish grey, irrorated with a few black and red scales; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct sinuous antemedial line bent out- wards to inner margin ; claviform represented by a black point at extremity ; truncate triangula ir deep black spots in cell before the orbicular and reniform, which have whitish aunuli and their centres defined by reddish, the ‘former V-shaped, open above, the latter with black points on its outer edge and below it; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; a pale subterminal line slightly defined on each side by fuscous. Hind wing semihyaline white. Hab, Care Corony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 3, 1 @ type. Exp. 36 millim. 958. Lycophotia isopleura. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 29.) Agrotis isopleura, Hmpsn. Ann, 8.-Afr. Mus. ii. p. 261 (1902). g I } @. Grey mixed with brown ;. palpi. black except at tips; tegulie black at tips ;, abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey irrorated [ps 5 MA § gle) 554 NOCIUIDA. with fuscous; the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous ; a double, waved antemedial line; claviform represented by a black point ; orbicular and reuiform defined by black, the former somewhat quadrate, the latter constricted at middle, the cell between them deep black ; a sinuous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, then oblique. Hind wing semihyaline white; the underside with the costal area tinged with fuscous. Hab, Masuonaranp, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 9 type. Exp. 30 millim. 959. Lycophotia orthogramma, n. sp. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 30.) 3d. Head and thorax brownish ochreous, irrorated with a few black scales; palpi black except at tips; a black bar above frons ; tegule with black basal band; tarsi blackish ; abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with black and with sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen excurved below middle; whitish, thickly striated with olive-brown ; the costal area suffused with olive-brown ; a subbasal white line defined on each side by brown from costa to submedian fold; an oblique antemedial white line slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly on outer; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by rufous, the former elliptical, inwardly oblique, the latter narrow with a black spot in its lower part; the postmedial line white, slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly on outer, inwardly oblique from costa to vein 6, then erect ; a terminal series of black points; cilia white at base, rufous at tips. Jind wing hyaline white, the costal and inner areas tinged with ochreous ; the termen irrorated with black and with terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, some postmedial points on the veins towards costa, and a terminal series. Hab. Brazit, Petropolis (Doer), 1 g type. Exp. 40 millim. 960. Lycophotia ignicans. (Plate LXXIV. fig. 31.) Agrotis ignicans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 274 (1882); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 284. Agrotis prodenoides, Wik. x. 3854 (1856). Head and thorax pale ochreous, often slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few dark scales ; palpi black-brown and rufous, pale at tips; basal half of tegule black; fore cox and the tibie often tinged with pink; abdomen ochreous, tinged with rufous or fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated and striated with black, especially on inner half, the terminal area only or wholly tinged with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by slight striz below costa and cell, the antemedial line by a black point on costa; claviform and orbicular obsolete; the reniform repre- sented by a black point at upper angle of cell and two at lower angle on a rufous mark; the postmedial line reduced to a series of black points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, then curved ; LYCOPHOTIA, 555 the subterminal line dark, defined by the area beyond it being rufous except at apex, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; the termen sometimes with some white points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal and inner areas and termen tinged with ochreous or fuscous; the underside with the costal area irro- rated with fuscous. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 3 6; Panama, Chiriqui (Cham- pion), 1 9, Godman-Nalvin Coll.; Vrenezvrta, 1 ¢; Brazin, 1 3, Organ Mts., 'lijvea (Wagner), 1 3; ?hab., 1 ¢ type prodenoides. Lep. 44 millim. 961. Lycophotia infecta. Agrotis infecta, Ovhs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 67 (1816). Noctua precox, Hibn. Sammi. Eur .Schmett., Noct. f. 259 (1827), nee Linn. Agrotis incivis, Guen. Noct, i. p. 274 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 70; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. 1. p. 284. Laphygma precipua, W\k. Char. Undeser. Het. p. 29 (1869). Graphiphora bartholemica, Wilgrn. Gify. Vet.-Akad. Férh. 1871, p. 919. Anicla alabame, Grote, Bull. Butt. Soe. N. Sei. 1. p. 159 (1874). Prodenia pauper, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 485. Agrotis mulina, Méschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. (3) p. 47 (1886). Anicla mahalpa, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 109 (1898). Head and thorax grey, irrorated with a few dark scales; palpi black except at extremity ; tegule with the basal half black; nud and hind tibie and tarsi suffused with black above; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing ochreous grey or violaceous grey, more or less strongly irrorated and striated with fuscous; the subbasal and antemedial lines usually represented by black points on the costa, sometimes trace- able; clayiform obsolete; orbicular and reniform small, grey with fulvous annuli, the former round, the latter with one black point in upper portion and two in lower; the postmedial line represented by a curved series of black points, sometimes connected by a minutely dentate line; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with rufous or dark brown suffusion beyond it and often on its inner edge, leaving the apex grey. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costa and termen tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, [linois, Alabama, 1 ¢ type alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, 1 ¢, 2 9, Texas, Dallas, 1 ¢, Washington, California, Florida, St. John’s Bluff (Doubleday), 1 3, 3 Q type incivis; Burmupa, ‘ Challenger’ Coll., 2 9; Jamatca (Bowry), 1 3 type pauper, Gordon Town (Aaye), 19; Harri (Tweedie), 1 go; St. Lucia (Maj. Cowie), 2 9; Grunava (H. H. Smith), 2 9: Barpanos (Frampton), 2 9 ; Mexico, Jalapa (7rwjillo), 1o,29; GuaTEMALA (ftodriguez), 1 $3; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 ¢, Godman- Salvin Coll.; Venezurna, Caracas, 1 ¢ ; Brazir, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 $6, 19, Parafia, type t mahalpa in Coll. Schaus; AreEnriNa, Goya (Perrins), 1 9; Perv, Lima, 1 2 type pracipua. Exp. 34-42 millim. Larva. French, Can. Ent. xii. p. 14 (1880), as Judricans, in error ; Dyar, Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 18 (1894). Head pale green with brownish reticulations, curved vertical 556 NOCTUIDE. band and line from eye. Body green, finely mottled with white, with faint, narrow, irregular dorsal, double subdorsal, lateral, and broad substigmatal white lines. More usually the larva is brown. Head pale brown, the markings dark brown. Body pale brown, mottled with black, mostly in longi- tudinal streaks edging the whitish lines, which are dorsal, obscurely double subdorsal, and lateral, besides the broad distinct substigmatal band, white, sharply edged, red-centered. White subdorsal dots anteriorly on segments ; spiracles white, black-rimmed. Subdorsal black shades longitudinal. Feeds on grass.—H. G. D. 962. Lycophotia biformis. (Plate LX XIV. fig. 32.) Mentaxya biformis, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 109 (1898). 3. Head and thorax grey-white, slightly pencilled with pale brown, the thorax irrorated with a few dark brown seales ; palpi black-brown except at extremities; tegule with an elliptical black patch ; legs tinged with blackish above; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface irrorated with black seales. Fore wing white, striated with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales: the subbasal line represented by blackish points below costa and cell ; faint traces of a nearly straight antemedial line, with the black point representing the claviform on its outer edge; orbicular obsolete ; reniform represented by two rufous points on discocellulars ; an indistinct brownish postmedial line highly excurved beyond the cell; subterminal line obsolete; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Brazrt, Sao Paulo (Jones), 2 ¢. HEvp. 34 millim. Typet in Coll, Schaus. 963. Lycophotia messia. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 2.) Agrotis messium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 276 (1852). Ayrotis pesronit, Guen. Noct. i. p. 282 (1852). Agrotis furcifera, Wik. xv. 1699 (1858). Cerastis ferruginescens, var. lucilla, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1882, p. 133. Agrotis digramma, Mab. Bull. Soc. Piilom. (7) ix. p. 60 (1885); id. N. Arch. Mus. (3) i. p. 146, pl. xi. f. 2. Head grey, more or less strongly tinged with purplish red-brown ; thorax grey, pencilled with brown, sometimes irrorated with black scales; teguize with the basal half black; tibise with the spurs black and white ; abdomen greyish or ochreous, more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated and sometimes suffused with dark brown, the costal area suffused with ferruginous or purple-brown; the subbasal line double, waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line double, waved, bent outwards above inner margin; the claviform usually defined by black and well-developed, sometimes reduced to a point at its extremity; the orbicular and reniform small, defined by black, and with blackish centres, the former round; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly bent outwards above inner LYCOPHOTIA. DoT margin; the subterminal line sometimes faintly defined by the area beyond it being brownish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing semihyaline white; the veins, costa, and termen tinged with brown, some dark points on apical half of termen usually present; the underside with discoidal point, the costal area irro- rated with brown. Hab. Cnire (Edmonds), 1 3,4 2, type lucilla, Coquimbo (J. J. Waller), 2 9; Pavaconta, Punta Arenas (J. J. Walker), 1 3; Straits of Magellan, type 7 ¢ pesronii, in Mus. Paris, Tierra del Fuego, type fT digramma, in Mus. Paris; hab.? 1 9, type furcifera. Exp. 32-38 millim. 964. Lycophotia melanobasis, n. sp. (Plate LX XV. fig. 3.) o. Head and thorax grey and black; sides of frons with black spots; tegule with black medial band, the tips paler; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous and brown, and striated with dark brown; the subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell; a broad diffused black band before the antemedial line, which is slightly angled outwards below costa and cell and strongly bent outwards above inner margin; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, with grey annuli defined by black and black centres, the former round ; traces of a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, the area beyond it suffused with black leaving the apex greyish; a terminal punctitorm line. Hind wing white; the costal area and termen slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the underside with discoidal point, postmedial series of points on the yeins and some points on termen. Hab. Unueuay, Colon (0. Zhomas), 1 3 type. Exp. 3+ millim. 965. Lycophotia ferruginescens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 4.) Cerastis ferruginescens, Blanchard, Gay’s Fauna Chile, vii. p. 83, pl. 6. f. 10 (1854). 3g. Head brownish; tegule black at base, pale at tips; thorax and abdomen ochreous white, slightly irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing ochreous white, sparsely irrorated with dark brown: a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to vein 1, a blackish patch on costal half of wing between it and the antemedial line, which is double, waved, and angled inwards on vein 1; the clavitorm repre- sented by a minute black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, obsoletely defined by black, the former round with black point at centre, the latter with black point in lower extremity ; traces of a medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with a quadrate black patch on its outer edge at costa; a terminal series of black points, Hind 558 NOCTUID®. wing semihyaline white ; the underside with slight discoidal point, and the costal area irrorated with brown. Q. Hind wing irrorated with brown, especially towards termen. Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing very much browner, the latter without the black patches on costal area, which is sometimes slightly tinged with ferruginous; hind wing suffused with fuscous brown, becoming whitish towards base; the cilia white. Hab, Cutty, Valparaiso (Edmonds), 1 $,39Q. Exp. 34 millim. 966. Lycophotia minna. (Plate LXXV. fig. 5.) Cerastis minna, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1882, p. 134. Orthosia mollis, Mab, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. p. 62 (1885); id. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Lép. p. 18, pl. 1. f. 7. ¢. Head greyish mixed with pale rufous; palpi fringed with blackish in front; thorax ochreous tinged with pale rufous, the tegulee with the basal half black ; abdomen pale brownish irrorated with fuscous, and with some white hair at base. Fore wing pale brown, tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with black; the subbasal and antemedial lines obsolete ; a subbasal black point in cell; claviform represented by a black point, the orbicular by a small spot, the reniform by two spots conjoined by ferruginous and with traces of a pale annulus; traces of a punctiform postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal area slightly irrorated with brown; a terminal series of black points except towards tornus; the underside with discoidal point. Hab, Cute, Valparaiso (Hdmonds), 1 g type; Paragonta, Straits of Magellan, Beagle Channel, type t ¢ mollis in Mus, Paris. Hep, 34 millim. 967. Lycophotia digna. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 6.) Agrotis digna, Morr, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 115 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. Agrotis nigrovittata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 77 (1875). Head and thorax white, slightly tinged with ochreous; palpi black except at tips; tegule black at base; legs strongly irrorated with brown; abdomen white, tinged with ochreous except towards base. Fore wing ochreous white, slightly striated with grey and irrorated with dark brown especially towards termen; all the markings obsolete, except that the reniform is sometimes repre- sented by two black points. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal area and termen slightly tinged with ochreous in female. Hab. US.A., Texas, 1¢,19, type nigrovittata. xp. 34 millim., 968. Lycophotia atricincta. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 7.) Noctua atricincta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 333, pl. xv. f. 6 (1895). g. Head and tegule white; palpi blackish at sides except at extremities ; tegule with black medial band tapering to sides ; thorax grey-white; tibixe and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen LYCOPHOTIA. 559 white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing white, slightly suffused with fuscous and irrorated with black; subbasal black points below costa and cell; the antemedial line represented by a blackish spot on costa and an obscure line from cell to inner margin angled inwards on vein 1; orbicular absent; the medial shade represented by a blackish spot on costa and curved line from cell to inner margin; reniform represented by a small black spot with short streak below it; the postmedial line dentate, black, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by blackish spots on its inner side, becoming a stronger shade towards costa; the terminal area tinged with fuscous and with a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, slightly tinged with fuscous on costal and inner areas; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous and with diffused dark postmedial mark. Hab. Canana, Calgary (Wolley Dod), 3 3 ; U.S.A., Dakota, Volga Co., 1d. Exp. 36 millim. *969, Lycophotia gaurax. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 8.) Agrotis gaurax, Ping. Iris, xiii. p. 117, pl. 4. f. 9 (1899) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 254, 3. Head and thorax lilacine grey, the scales tipped with rufous ; abdomen grey with a rufous tinge. Fore wing lilacine grey, the medial area suffused with rufous below the cell, the terminal area tinged with rufous; the subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa; the antemedial line oblique, somewhat sinuous and indistinctly double, defined on outer side by a black bar from costa and a striga from median nervure; orbicular and reniform very large, with pale annuli, the former V-shaped, open above, the ceil before and between them filled in with black ; post- medial line indistinct or obsolescent except at costa, where it is represented by a black bar, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; the subterminal line indistinct, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by rufous on inner side. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous and with indistinct postmedial line on it. Hab. W. Torxestan, Alexander Mts., type 7 in Coll. Pingeler, Exp. 40 millim. 970. Lycophotia margaritacea. Noctua margaritacea, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 272, pl. 5. f. 16 (1789) ; Herr.- Schiff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. p. 351; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. Noctua glarcosa, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 2, p. 247, nec Hsp. Noctua F-intactum, Huibn. Saminl. Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 130 (1827); Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 75, pl. 77. ff. 3, 4. Head and thorax white tinged with pale brown; palpi black at sides except at tips; neck black at sides; tegule with some dark scales; fore legs tinged with brown; abdomen white, the anal tuft 560 NOCTUID®. tinged with ochreous. Fore wing violaceous white, slightly tinged with ochreous towards termen and sparsely irrorated with black scales; the subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa ; an indistinct double, minutely waved antemedial line arising from a small black spot on costa; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity or absent; orbicular and reniform very faintly defined, the former round, a small quadrate black spot between them, sometimes placed on a faint brown medial shade which arises from a blackish spot on costa; the postmedial line very indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, arising from a black spot on costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by slight yellow-brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, in female more or less tinged with brown on veins and terminal half. Hab. France, Leech Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Austria ; Houneary, Leech Coll.; SwrrzerLanp, Frey Coll.; Iraty; Rumetza ; Byturinia; Russia, 1 9; ARMENIA; AsIA Minton Bantaee SIBERIA (Lederer), 2 3, Altai; W. Turxusran, Issyk-kul; E, Turxesran, i. 9 Hvp. 40 millim. 971. Lycophotia insignata. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 9.) Graphiphora insignata, Led. Verh. zoels -bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 566, pl. 4. £. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138 Noctua intermedia, Ey. Bull. Mose. iv. p. 21 (1855). Agrotis pallescens, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (1893). Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey and irrorated with a few black scales; palpi blackish, white at tips ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale brownish grey, irrorated with a few black scales; a slightly “curved black subbasal line frem costa to sub- median fold; the antemedial line pale, defined by black on outer side from costa to vein 1, angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and bent outwards above inner margin; claviform, orbicular, and reniform with grey brown-edged centres, and whitish annuli defined by brown, the former rather small, the two latter very large, the ‘orbicular oblique rounded ; an indistinet waved medial shade from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line pale, slightly defined by brown and with some black points on its inner side towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line pale, defined by black suffusion on inner aide, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4, 3, 2: a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, ‘with fine brown terminal line; underside with the costal area irrorated with pale brown. Ab. 1. pallescens. Fore wing with the markings very indistinct. —Persia; Turcomania. Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta; Persia; W. Srsprta, Altai, 3 d,3 9, Zeller Coll.; W. Turkesran, Turcomania, Issyk-kul. E. Turkestan, li. Hap. 42-44 millim. LYCOPHOTIA. 561 972. Lycophotia butleri. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 10.) Mentaxya butleri, Schaus, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 108 (1898). @. Head and thorax grey pencilled with brown; palpi black except at tips; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale grey, slightly irrorated with black and tinged in parts with brown ; the subbasal line represented by black spots on costa and below the cell; the antemedial line double, brown, slightly excurved below cell and strongly above inner margin; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black and with brownish centres ; traces of a waved medial shade ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line diffused reddish brown, developed into a patch on costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a series of black points just before termen. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area irrorated with brown; the veins towards termen brown; a brown terminal line except towards tornus. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, type fT @ in Coll. Schaus; Brazin, Rio Janeiro, 1 2. vp. 34 millim. #973. Lycophotia yaxcaba. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 11.) Amathes yaxcaba, Schaus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 108 (1898). ®. Head and thorax fuscous, the scales tipped with grey; palpi black, pale at tips; abdomen pale, dorsally tinged with brown, the ventral surface irrorated with brown. Fore wing thickly irrorated with black; a slightly waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a somewhat dentate antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform only defined by a slightly curved black striga below it; postmedial line minutely dentate, somewhat diffused, oblique from costa to vein 4 where it is angled, then erect ; no trace of subterminal line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing hyaline white, the veins brownish; a slight terminal brown line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with black. Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, type fT 2 inColl.Schaus. vp. 36 millim. 974. Lycophotia simplicia. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 12.) Agrotis simplicius, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 164 (1874). Agrotis simplaria, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 210 (1874); Sinith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. g. Head and thorax grey irrorated with dark brown; palpi black except at tips; tegule with traces of a black medial line; pectus and legs strongly irrorated with black ; abdomen grey, the dorsal surface irrorated with brown, the ventral strongly with black. Fore wing grey-white, irrorated with black; the lines obsolete; the clavitorm represented by parallel short streaks; the orbicular by a short streak above median nervure, sometimes con- joined to the reniform, which consists of black points on each side VoL, IV. 20 562 NOCTUIDAE. of a whitish lunule ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the costal area irrorated with fuscous; some dark striz on termen. °. Hind wing with the termen irrorated with fuscous. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 6,19. Exp. 34 millim. 975. Lycophotia aspersa. (Plate LXXV. fig. 13.) Spodoptera aspersa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 117. ¢. Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey; palpi blackish at sides except towards tips; tegule with blackish medial line; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with fuscous ; no trace of the ante- and postmedial lines; orbicular and reniform very obscurely defined by fuscous, the former round; the subterminal line represented by a greyish bar from costa, then by an indistinct series of small ochreous and blackish dentate marks; a slight terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area irrorated with dark brown, some black points on termen towards apex. Hab, Cutz (Edmonds), 1 3 type. Exp. 32 millim. 976. Lycophotia diana. (Plate LXXV. fig. 14.) Ochropleura diana, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 182. ¢. Head and tegule red-brown strongly mixed with grey ; palpi blackish except at tips ; the extremity of tegule and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; pectus and legs rufous and grey ; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous, the ventral surface irrorated with rufous and black. Fore wing red-brown irrorated slightly with black; the basal area, costal area to beyond middle, and veins suffused with grey; the subbasal line represented by rufous strive from costa and median nervure; antemedial line in- distinct, oblique, somewhat waved ; orbicular a small black spot with ochreous annulus; reniform an ochreous white lunule; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing semihyaline white, with some dark points on costal half of termen; the underside with the costal area irrorated with some large black scales, a small discoidal spot. Hab. Cutts (Edmonds), 1 S-type. Hvp. 32 millim. 977. Lycophotia atrisparsa,n. sp. (Plate LX XV. fig. 15.) ¢. Head and tegule pale brownish, slightly mixed with black ; palpi black except at tips; antenne black; thorax blackish mixed with rufous; abdomen pale fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing ochreous whitish, tinged with purplish red especially towards costa and sparsely irrorated and striated with black; some black patches on costa; a pale waved subbasal line from-costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved LYCOPHOTIA. 563 antemedial line with black points at the veins on its inner side ; orbicular extremely indistinct; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish and with a blackish bar before it; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins; some pale points on costa towards apex and a black patch before the very indistinct subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points; cilia blackish, with a pale line through them. Hind wing semihyaline white; the costal area tinged with fuscous towards apex, some dark strigee on termen ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a dark discoidal point and three postmedial points on the veins towards costa. Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 3 type. Eup. 32 millim, 978. Lycophotia perirrorata. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 16.) Agrotis perirrorata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 262 (1902). Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft with a fulvous tinge. Fore wing ochreous grey, very thickly irrorated with black; the costa with some blackish patches ; traces of a pale waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved dark antemedial line; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform blackish with grey annuli defined by black, the former rather small, round; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then represented by points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex; the sub- terminal line only defined by blackish patches on its inner side at costa and middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia ochreous and black. Hind wing semihyaline ochreous white, the costal area slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point. Hab. Navat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 3 type; C. Corony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 292. Exp. 34 millim. 979. Lycophotia fuscirufa, n. sp. (Plate LXXV. fig. 17.) 3. Head and tegule ochreous and rufous, the latter with black medial line and tips; thorax rufous sutfused with fuscous ; tarsi ringed with ochreous. Fore wing rufous suffused with fuscous black except on inner area and between the postmedial and sub- terminal lines from below costa; an indistinct, waved, black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; the orbicular and reniform with obscure rufous annuli defined by black, the former round, a black streak in cell before and between the stigmata; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being dark, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved middle ; 202 564 NOCTUIDAE. a terminal series of black points; cilia rufous, with a dark line through them. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area tinged with fuscous; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal point and curved postmedial series, 2. Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous from costa to vein 2. Hab. Br. BK. Arrica, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 2 $,19,type. Exp. 30 millim, *980. Lycophotia funebris. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 32.) Fagitana funebris, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe, xxi, p. 236 (1894). @. Head and thorax black-brown, some of the hairs tipped with white; fore tibize above and tarsi ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing black-brown irrorated with white, the base of inner margin ochreous; a black discoidal lunule ; an indistinct curved postmedial series of black points on the veins ; a terminal series of slight black marks. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of dark strive from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area suffused and irrorated with dark brown, a postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins. Hab. Braztz, Castro Parafia, type fT 2 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 42 millim. *981. Lycophotia sordescens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 18.) Agrotis sordescens, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 860 (1899) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. 6. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and reddish brown ; palpi blackish at sides except at tips; tegule with blackish medial line with some dark brown before it; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing pale fuscous with a purplish tinge, suffused and irrorated with grey ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold angled inwards below median nervure ; a strong antemedial black line, oblique towards costa and angled inwards on yein 1 ; traces of a greyish claviform; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli very incompletely defined by brown, the former round, a triangular black patch in cell between them, with a black spot above it on costa; traces of a medial shade; postmedial line marked by a black spot at costa, then indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; an indistinct dark subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excuryed at middle; traces of a terminal series of points; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white ; the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; the under- side with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan in Coll. Pingeler. wp. 36 millim. LYCOPHOTIA. 569 *982: Lycophotia tenuescens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 19.) Peridroma tenuescens, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus, 38, p. 73 (1890) ; id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 70. Head and thorax whitish, with a few scattered reddish and black scales. Fore wing whitish, the terminal area suffused with reddish ; the lines obsolete; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform blackish, ill-defined. Hind wing greyish or fuscous, paler at base ; the underside pale grey, irrorated with blackish. Hab. U.S.A., Nebraska. Hup. 31 millim. This species is un- known to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 983, Lycophotia conchidia. (Plate LX XV. fig. 20.) Hadena conchidia, Butl, Trans. Ent. Soe. 1882, p. 135. 3. Head grey, with rufous bars above frons and between antenne ; tegule yellow-brown at base, their tips and the thorax grey mixed with black and brown and the scales tipped with white ; abdomen whitish, irrorated with brown, tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing grey, tinged with brown and irrorated with black; the veins streaked with white; a double black subbasal curved line from costa to submedian fold, interrupted at cell and with black mark beyond it below the cell; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; claviform faintly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and with blackish centres, the former round, the latter with some rufous in its outer part; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line represented by a very indistinct series of dentate marks ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing hyaline white, the termen suffused with fuscous brown, narrowing to a point at vein 1; the underside with the costal area irrorated with black, a terminal series of black points. ©. Head and thorax grey irrorated with black; hind wing with the marginal areas suffused with fuscous. Hab, Cuire (Edmonds), 1 3,1 2 type, Coquimbo (J.J. Walker), 146,19. ° Hep. 34 millim. 984. Lycophotia differens. (Plate LXXV. fig. 21.) Agrotis differens, Wk. x. 836 (1856). 3. Head and front of thorax purple-brown, metathorax grey- brown, the scales tipped with grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing dull brown, slightly suffused with purplish red; traces of double, waved, subbasal and antemedial lines; claviform short, faintly defined by red-brown ; orbicular and reniform obscurely defined by red-brown, the former round; some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line represented by some very faint dark points; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the 566 NOCTUIDAE. veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with brown; cilia with brown line at base; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. Vennzuris (Dyson), 1 3. Exp. 40 millim. *985. Lycophotia exuberans. (Plate LXXY. fig. 22.) Noctua exuberans, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soe. vi. p. 103 (1898). Grey varying from reddish to ashen and with more or less dark irroration ; palpi deep brown at sides; tegule deep brown at base. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines represented by black spots on costa, the antemedial line sometimes faintly traceable ; claviform and orbicular obsolete; reniform small, black, ill-defined and incomplete above; a slight medial shade; subterminal line faint, pale, defined on inner side by a slight dark shade on costal area, the area beyond it somewhat darker. Hind wing iridescent white, tinged with fuscous towards termen; a dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside with the marginal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs. wp. 40 millim, This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 986. Lycophotia postventa. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 23.) Eurois postventa, Geyer, Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. ff. 865, 866 (1837). @. Head and thorax grey ; frons blackish; thorax tinged with black ; abdomen fuscous black above, greyish below, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing lilacine grey irrorated with black-brown ; orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with some grey in centre, a blackish patch between the stigmata extending to costa; traces of an oblique double line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, inner and terminal areas tinged with brown; a terminal series of dark strie; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. Hab, Namaquatann; C. Cotony,1 9. Hap. 50 millim. 987. Lycophotia costigera. (Plate LXXV. fig. 24.) Agrotis costigera, W1k. xv. 1702 (1858). ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown; tegule with slight blackish medial line ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with ochreous towards extremity, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with pale reddish brown and irrorated with dark brown; the costal edge white to beyond middle, with four dark marks on it at origin of lines; faint traces of a waved antemedial line; reniform small, greyish, incompletely defined by black; the postmedial line very indistinct, waved, bent outwards LYCOPHOTIA. 567 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some white points on costa towards apex. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale ochreous brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab, Cure (Cuming), 1g. Exp. 42 millim. 988. Lycophotia lubricans. (Plate LXXV. fig. 25.) Noctua lubricans, Quen. Noct.i. p. 323 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct.N.Am.p 77. Graphiphora tllapsa, Wk. xi. 744 (1857). Mamestra associans, Wik. xv. 1683 (1858). Agrotis beata, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 54 (1883). Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi black except at tips; tegule with black medial line; legs grey and black ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing reddish brown, slightly suffused with grey and irrorated with black, the costal area grey with the lines represented by oblique black bars, then obsolescent ; the subbasal line obsolete except on costal area ; the antemedial line slightly angled outwards below costa and excurved below cell; the medial line excurved at median nervure; the reniform small, grey, defined by black, which may be reduced to lines or points; the postmedial line excurved below costa, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line whitish, more or less reduced to points especially towards costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on costal and terminal areas; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown and tinged with red, a dark discal spot.—Florida. The form ilapsa from Canada and the Eastern States has the ground-colour of fore wing much greyer, the lines more distinct, and reddish brown or fiery red suffusion before the subterminal line. The form beata from the Western States has the suffusion before the subterminal line black-brown. Hab. Canava, Hudson’s Bay, 1 @ type wllapsa; U.S.A., Eastern States,2 ¢,1 9, Florida,2 ¢ (Doubleday), type and type associans, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico. wp. 38-42 millim. 989. Lycophotia pulverea, n.sp. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 7.) Head and thorax pale brownish grey ; palpi black except at tips; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown, with a reddish tinge thickly irrorated with fuscous; an indistinct curved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a very indistinct waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with pale ochreous annuli, the former rounded, the latter rather constricted at middle and with slight fuscous tinge in lower part; postmedial line even, bent out- wards below costa and incurved below vein 4, with a series of black points beyond it from vein 6 to inner margin; subterminal line pale, narrowly defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules and a fine ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, 568 NOCTUID. the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, more uniformly suffused in female; the cilia white; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line. Hab. Cyprus, Mts. (Miss D. M, A. Bate), 1 $,1 9 type. Hap. 32-36 millim. 990. Lycophotia pudens. (Plate LX XV. fig. 26.) Agrotis pudens, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxviii. p. 728 (1900). 9. Head and thorax lilacine grey slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi black at sides except at tips; tegule with black medial line ; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen dorsally ochreous brown tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface whitish, with black sub- lateral points. Fore wing lilacine grey slightly irrorated with black, the costal area tinged with ferruginous red; a double rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards in cell and above inner margin ; claviform represented by a rufous striga at its extremity; orbicular and reniform with pale fuscous centres and pale annuli detined by rufous; the postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, with a series of black points on its outer edges and a series on the veins beyond it; the subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a rufous patch on its inner side at costa, then a series of points and slight rufous marks on its outer edge; a terminal series of black points; cilia pale brown. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costal and inner areas and a terminal line brownish ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, postmedial and subterminal series of black points. The type from E. Africa has the lower part of cell before and between the stigmata black, the area above and beyond it redder, Hab. Mavacascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 Q ; E. Arrica, type T 2 in Coll. Mabille. Hap. 42 millim. 991. Lycophotia conformis. Agrotis conformis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 349, pl. 9. f.5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 184. 3g. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with pale ochreous brown ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown slightly irrorated with dark scales; the ante- and postmedial lines represented by black points on costa; orbicular and reniform large, detined by ochreous aunuli, the former oblique, elliptical. Hind wing whitish, the veins, inner and terminal areas tinged with ochreous. Hab. Bauwcnistan, Quetta (Swinhoe), 1 3d type. Hap. 38 millim. 992. Lycophotia vallesiaca. Agrotis vailesiaca, Buisd. Ie. pl. 78. f. 8 (18532); Staud. Iris, i. p. 217, pl. 10. f. 10; Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 384, Noct. f. 80; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown and a few LYCOPHOTIA. 569 black scales; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing pale ochreous thickly irrorated with brown; a waved subbasal dark line from costa to submedian fold ; an obliquely waved antemedial line ; claviform slightly seamed: at extremity by blackish; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by blackish, ‘the former small, round ; a waved mena line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- medial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, eoumeed to om 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; subterminal line pale, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 3, 4; a terminal series of small dark lunules. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area slightly jeromated with brown. Hab. Swirzertann, Valais, 1 ¢,1 9. vp. 40 millim. 993. Lycophotia pecila. Agrotis pecila, Alph. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 67; id. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 27, pl. 2. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Agrotis superba, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 32. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with fuscous and grey-white ; tegule blackish at base, with black medial line and white tips ; abdomen white tinged with pale brown. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with black, the veins and costal area to subterminal line white irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal black line filled in with white from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards on median neryure and vein 1; claviform very faintly defined by black scales and with a pale streak from it to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform whitish, the former produced to a point on outer side, the latter with fuscous mark on its lower part; the postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, highly dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein + and incurved in submedian interspace; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined by a series of diffused dentate marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia white, with fuscous line at base. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with fuscous especially on terminal area; the cilia white; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot, traces of a curved postmedial line and terminal series of black strive. Hab. EK. Turkestan, Kashgar; Moneortra, Uliassutai, 1 ¢,1 9. Exp. 48 millim, 994. Lycophotia fugax. Noctua Suga, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 195 (1825); Boisd. Icones, pl. 80. t. 3; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 73. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Kur., Noct. f. 170: Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144, Agrotis ala, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1851, p. 413; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; pectus with the hair whitish ; tarsi black with pale rings. Fore wing grey thickly 570 _ -NOCTUIDZ. irrorated with dark brown; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, highly waved, antemedial line: a waved medial shade angled outwards on median nervure; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, detined by ochreous on outer side; the subterminal line defined by dark brown suffusion on inner side, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown especially on terminal area; the veins brown; the cilia white; the underside white irrorated with brown on costal and terminal areas, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with darker strive at the veins, a terminal series of dark points. Ab. 1. ala. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata defined by ochreous-white annuli, the former round. Hab. Austria; Huneary, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Russra, Centr. & S.F.; Armenta; W. Turxnsran, Ferghana, Sarawschan, Ala Tau, Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts.,1 6,19; E.Turxxsran, Ih. Eup. 44-56 millim. 995. Lycophotia photophila. Agrotis photophila, Guen, Noct. i. p. 302 (1852); Staud. Cat. Lep. pul. . 144. Apis sollers, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 179; Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xii. pl. 6. f. 19 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. Agrotis ignipeta, Oberth. Et, Ent. i. p. 45, pl. 4. f. 4 (1876). Speiotis undulans, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 283 (1878); id. 2nd Yarkand Mission, pl. 1. f. 10; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 183. Agrotis obscurior, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. Agrotis candida, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. Agrotis obumbrata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 27. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed with fuscous ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing grey, thickly irrorated with fuscous brown; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved, somewhat oblique antemedial line with a pale line on its inner side; orbicular a dark point; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell; reniform a slight dark lunule; postmedial line fuscous with pale outer edge, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, dentate, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing and underside white suffused with fuscous. Ab. 1. vestilina, Piing. ined. Like candida, but with the. hind wing almost entirely white.-—Aksu. Ab. 2. candida. Paler; the ground-colour whitish or ochreous ; hind wing whiter, the veins and terminal area tinged with ochreous. — Issyk-kul. Ab. 3. obscurior. Darker, especially the hind wing and under- side.—Samarkand. LYCOPHOTTIA. 571 Ab. 4. obumbrata. Much darker; fore wing very thickly irro- rated with fuscous ; orbicular and reniform often more developed and defined by ochreous ; hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area with a rufous tinge, the cilia white ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, discoidal points and a curved postmedial line.—Issyk- kul. Hab. Aueerta; Syria, 2 9; E. Turkestan, Yarkand; S. AraHan- ISTAN ; ScrnDE, Karachi (Swinhoe), 1 2 ; W. Turkestan, Turkomania, 1 $,1 9, Samarkand (Haberhauer), 29, Issyk-kul, 6 ¢,4 9; Moneorra, Aksu. wp. 56 millim. *996. Lycophotia electra. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 27.) Agrotis electra, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 6; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Head and thorax grey-white, the hairs tipped with fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen grey-white. Fore wing grey-white, thickly and finely irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line obsolescent, double, waved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, double, waved, in- distinct but with prominent black point at costa ; stigmata obsolete ; an indistinct medial shade angled at lower angle of cell; postmedial line minutely dentate and produced to points on the veins, with a distinct black point at costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line represented by a very indistinct series of dentate marks; a waved brown terminal line ; cilia grey, with a brown line through them. Hind wing white, slightly but nearly uniformly tinged with fuscous; cilia pure white ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown and with a postmedial line crossing it, a slight discoidal point. Hab. W. Turxnstan, Ferghana, Tagus-torau in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 36 millim. 997. Lycophotia caradrinoides. Agrotis caradrinoides, Staud. Iris, ix. pp. 248, 368, pl. 4. f. 4 (1896); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Agrotis hydrilloides, Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 203, pl. 13. f. 11 (1897). 3. Head and thorax pale brown mixed with dark brown ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing pale greyish-brown thickly irrorated with black ; the subbasal and antemedial lines ill-defined double, waved, the former from costa to submedian fold; claviform repre- sented by some blackish scales ; orbicular and reniform represented by indistinct pale lunules slightly defined by black ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Russia, Urals; Moneort, Uliassutai Mts., 1 ¢, Changai Mts. Exp, 34 roillim. on NOCTUID. 998. Lycophotia hadjina. (Plate LXXV. fig. 28.) Agrotis hadjina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 270, pl. iii. f. 8 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Agrotis zeituna, Staud. Tris, xii. p. 361, pl. 6. f. 6 (1899). Head and thorax pale blue- grey mixed with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous grey irrorated with brown, Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with black ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold arising from a black spot on costa; a waved antemedial line arising from a black spot on costa ; an ochreous streak in submedian fold, the claviform being represented by its extremity being slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by blackish, the former small, round ; postmedial line rather indistinct, dentate, slightly incurved in discal fold and more strongly below vein 4; the sub- terminal line ochreous, defined by darker suffusion on inner side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; an ochreous line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark fuscous ; the cilia whitish, ochreous at base; the underside ochreous white, slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, Ab. 1. seituna. Paler and withont the blue-grey, the ground- colour of head. thorax, and fore wing being ochreous grey. Hah, Asts Minor, 2 5, 1 9; Syrtwa, 3d,29. Hap. 36-42 millim. *999. Lycophotia macrina. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 8.) Agrotis macrina, Ping. ined. Head whitish, palpi at sides except extremity and antenne blackish; thorax grey mixed with fuscous; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen greyish white, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey, suffused with olive and thickly irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area with a yellowish tinge; subbasal line black, waved from costa to vein 1 and defined by whitish on outer side ; antemedial line strong, black defined by whitish on inner side, waved and somewhat oblique: claviform with its extremity slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, the former round, incompletely defined by black, the latter with its medial part, strongly suffused with rufous and defined by black except above and below; a very irregularly waved black medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell, diffused and darkening the cell between the stigmata; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, slightly defined on outer side by whitish and with some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, defined by the contrast between the postmedial and paler yellowish terminal area, irregularly dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, uniformly suffused with fuscous ; cilia yellowish white; the underside whitish, the costal area more LYCOPHOTTA. 573 or less irrorated with fuscous, traces of a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. W. Turxestan, Alexander Mts., in Coll. Piingeler. Zzp. 32-38 millim. 1000. Lycophotia devota. Agrotis devota, Christ. Rom. Mém. i. p. 116, pl. 7. f. 6 (1884) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Head and thorax brownish or olive-grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey tinged with olive- yellow and thickly irrorated with dark brown; a waved brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line angled outwards in cell and above inner margin; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by brown; orbicular and reniform more or less indistinctly defined by brown, the former round ; the postmedial line somewhat ill-defined, dentate, shghtly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous white with a brownish line through them ; the underside ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with brown. Hab. Armenia, Caucasus, 1 ¢,19 ; W. Turxesran, Turcomania, 136,19. Eep., & 40, 2 42 millim. 1001. Lycophotia renigera. Noctua renigera, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 384 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 41, pl. 74. f. 6; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. 11. pl. 80. ff. 413, 414; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Polia dumosa, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 475, pl. 18. f. 5. Agrotis turana, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 268 (1891). Agrotis intermedia, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 269 (1891). Agrotis erubescens, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 269 (1891). Agrotis funebris, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 269 (1891). Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and black ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brownish ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey-white, thickly irrorated with fuscous; a diffused waved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a diffused waved antemedial line bent outwards above inner margin; claviform indistinct, yellow, with its extremity defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform with greyish centres and yellow annuli defined by blackish, the former round, the latter rather ill-defined ; the postmedial line irregularly dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved in discal fold, incurved below vein 4; a yellowish maculate subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points ; cilia yellowish at base. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; the cilia ochreous; the underside yellowish white, the costal 574 NOCTUID®. area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Ab. 1. turana. Paler and more tinged with ochreous.—Trans- caspia and Mongolia. Ab. 2. intermedia. Ochreous white with a violaceous tinge, the markings indistinct—Armenia ; Syria; Persia. Ab. 3. erubescens, Fulvous or reddish with the markings distinct.—N. Syria ; Mesopotamia; Kurdistan. Ab. 4. funebris. Much darker, leaden grey.—Armenia; Taurus, Hab. Francr, E. Pyrenees; N. Spain; Swirzernanp, 2 Q ; N.Ivaty; Hungary; Carinruia; Bosnta; Armenta; Asta Minor, Pontus, Taurus; Syria, Lebanon (Mrs. Nicholl), 1 ¢, Palestine, 1 @ ; Prrsra, Mesopotamia, 1 ¢, 1 9; W. TurKesray, Transcaspia, Ferghana; Moncorra. Hvp. 38-42 millim. 1002. Lycophotia pudica. Agrotis pudica, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 351, pl. vi. f. 8 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. Agrotis griseola, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 853 (1895), 3. Head and thorax pale orange ; palpi blackish except at tips ; tibia and tarsi banded with black; abdomen whitish, tinged with ochreous towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing pale orange, slightly irrorated with black ; a subbasal black spot on costa with line from it to submedian fold ; an oblique antemedial line expanding into spots at costa, submedian fold, and inner margin ; a medial shade strong from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is bent outwards, then waved and diffused ; a curved diffused obscurely waved postmedial line slightly angled inwards in discal fold; a subterminal blackish patch on costa and faint traces of a subterminal line; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing whitish tinged with pale fuscous; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown. Ab. 1. griseola. Fore wing suffused with violaceous grey. Hab. W. Torxestan, Issyk-kul, 1 ¢; E. Turxzsran, Ili; Moneorra, Uliassutai Mts. wp. 36 millim. 1003. Lycophotia umbrifera. Agrotis umbrifera, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvii. p. 53, pl. i. f. 33 (1882) ; taud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. Q. Head whitish; palpi black at sides except at base; thorax very pale rufous mixed with fuscous ; tibiee and tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing ochreous with a fleshy tinge, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous, less so on costal half to postmedial line; a waved fuscous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved fuscous ante- medial line; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell ; reniform an indistinct lunule; postmedial line dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area more strongly suffused with fuscous ; a pale diffused subterminal LYCOPHOTIA. 575 line angled outwards at vein 7, strongly inwards in discal fold, then excurved; cilia ochreous, with a slight dark line at base. Hind wing pale ochreous, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous white; underside ochreous white with broad fuscous terminal band; fore wing with dark spot on middle of costa. Hab. W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Turcomania, Issyk-kul, 1 9; E. Turkestan, Ili; Moncoria, Uliassutai Mts. Hep. 42 millim. *1004. Lycophotia spreta. Noctua spreta, Smith, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 36 (1902). Fawn-grey, more or less strongly tinged with rufous; frons paler grey; palpi black at sides. Fore wing with the markings indistinct, diffused; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa, then interrupted, obscure or obsolete ; antemedial line single, incomplete, sometimes obsolete; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform represented by some black scales or irregular spots; a reddish medial line sometimes traceable ; postmedial line single, usually marked at costa only, sometimes traceable as a somewhat lunulate line excurved beyond the cell; the terminal area somewhat darker, the subterminal line sometimes represented by whitish points with a dark shade before them on costa; an indistinct lunulate terminal line. Hiud wing fuscous, somewhat paler at base, darker in female. Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Hastings. wp. 33-37 millim. This species 1s unknown to me. 1005. Lycophotia fimbricla. Noctua fimbriola, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 193. f. 3 (1788); Hibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 603; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 53, pl. 74; Boisd. Ic. pl. 81. f. 4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. Agrotis maravigna, Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 82. f. 2 (1826). Agrotis raddei, Christ. Hor. Soc, Ent. Ross. xii. p. 246, pl. 6. f. 20 (1877) ; id. Rom. Mém. ii, pl. 2. f. 9. Head and thorax ochreous white irrorated with dark brown; tegule with dark medial line; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen grey, irrorated and dorsally suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing greyish ochreous, irrorated and the terminal area suffused with dark brown; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, irregularly waved, antemedial line excurved above Inner margin; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by brown or obsolete; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by brown, the former small, round, a strongly developed dark sinuous medial shade passing between them ; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, strongly defined by black-brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and somewhat dentate at middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the under- 576 NOCTUID®. side grey irrorated with brown, a curved postmedial line and dark terminal band. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the dark brown shades repiaced by ochreous brown.—Syria. Ab. 2. raddei. Paler and greyer, especially on underside except on terminal area; fore wing with short black streak from lower extremity of subbasal line, the medial shade reduced to a waved line, the subterminal line defined by a series of dentate black marks on its inner side.—W. Asia. Hab. France, Pyrenees; N. Spain, Tragacete (Chapman) ; SwitzERLaAND, Frey Coll.; N. Ivaty; Huneary, Zeller Coll. ; ArmMeENIA, Caucasus, Leech Coll.; Asta Mrynor, Pontus, Taurus; Syria, Leech Coll.; Prrsta, Shahkuh, Zeller Coll.; W. Turkesran, Turcomania. xp. 30-36 millim. 1006. Lycophotia brunnescens, n. sp. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 29.) ¢. Head and thorax rufous mixed with white; head white in front, the palpi except at extremity and frontal tuft at sides black- brown; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with fuscous towards extremity, the anal tuft pale fulvous. Fore wing ochreous whitish, suffused and irrorated with purplish brown; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold: the antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; claviform represented by a black point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by brown, the former rather quadrate, open above and below; the postmedial line minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the terminal area rather more strongly suffused with brown; a very indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a waved dark terminal line. Hind wing pale brownish ; the cilia white with dark line at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. N. Cuina, Hai-ning (J. J. Walker), 1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 1007. Lycophotia molibdoida. (Plate LXXY. fig. 30.) Agrotis molibdoida, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 61, f. 14 (1898). Q. Head and thorax leaden fuscous, more or less strongly mixed with ferruginous ; abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, the ventral surface ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing leaden fuscous, more or less strongly suffused with ferruginous; an indistinct waved dark antemedial line excurved below cell; orbicular and reniform small, indistinctly defined by ferruginous, the former round; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved. Hind wing brownish fuscous, whitish towards base and inner margin ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside yellowish white LYCOPHOTIA. O/T irrorated with brown, a more or less prominent diffused postmedial line. Hab. Paraconta, Punta Arenas (J. J. Walker), 29. Hxp. 34 millim. 1008. Lycophotia nanalis. (Plate LXXYV. tig. 31.) Agrotis nanalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 131 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. ¢. Head and thorax greyish brown, largely mixed with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brown suffused with black, most prominently towards inner margin and forming obscure streaks on the veins; subbasal line hardly traceable; antemedial line very indistinct, dentate; claviform elongate, with faint pale outline; orbicular small, lanceolate, with pale outline ; reniform small, very indistinct; traces of a dentate medial line; a very indistinct highly dentate postmedial line; faint traces of a dentate subterminal line. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and indistinct postmedial and subterminal points on the veins. Hab. U.S.A., Nevada, 1 $ type. Hap. 30 millim. 1009. Lycophotia oliveata. (Plate LXXYV. fig. 32.) Agrotis oliveata, Hmpsn. Ann. 8. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 262 (1902). 3. Head and thorax olive-yellow, more or less strongly mixed with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen pale ochreous. Fore wing olive-yellow, more or less strongly irrorated with black, the inner and terminal areas sometimes mostly black; a waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; an irregularly dentate antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1; claviform small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by more or less developed dentate black marks on inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown; the underside whiter irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and dentate postmedial line. Hab, Navat, Charleston, 1 ¢ ; C. Conony, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 42 millim. 1010. Lycophotia precurrens. Agrotis precurrens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 248; id. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 422, pl. 6. f.7; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. Agrotis bisagittata, Gres. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 324. Head and tegule white, slightly mixed with brown, the latter with slight medial line; thorax brown mixed with black and white ; tegule edged with black ; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface whitish; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing bluish or yellowish grey-green; a double, waved, antemedial line from costa VOL. IV. 22 ~ 978 NOCTIUID. y to submedian fold, with yellow patch beyond it on costal area; a double, waved, antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1; claviform large, defined by black and often filled in with yellow; orbicular and reniform each more or less figure-of-eight-shaped, with dark centres and yellow annuli defined by black; a waved medial black line; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area from. slightly beyond postmedial line, except on costal area, red-brown; the subterminal line pale, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with series of elongate dentate black marks on its inner side ; an apical whitish patch; the veins of terminal area finely streaked with black; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered brown and grey. Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal area darker; cilia white with a brownish line through them ; the underside paler, the costal area suffused with white, a discoidal lunule and indistinct oblique postmedial line. Hab. Amurtann, Ussuri; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer),2 9. ep. 48 millim. 1011. Lycophotia precox. Noctua precox, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 517 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 168. ff. 4-7 ; Steph. Ill. Brit, Ent., Haust. iii. p. 21; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. DLS. Nevin eee Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 70; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 73. f. 2. Agrotis flavomaculata, Greser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 323. Head and thorax white and pale brown, the edges of patagia and metathorax with some black scales: legs brown, the tibie and tarsi with white and black bands; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface with some white, black, and rufous scales. Fore wing pale brassy-green irrorated with white; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, defined by white on outer side; a double, waved, antemedial line filled in with white and with a small white spot before it in cell; claviform yellowish defined by black, more or less developed; orbicular and reniform yellowish defined by black, and with rufous or blackish centres, the former round ; an indistinct, waved, medial shade; postmedial line double, black, filled in with white, waved, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4; costa black, with white points towards apex; a waved white subterminal line angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, and with a red band on its inner side from vein 7 to inner margin, the area beyond it blackish, white at apex; a terminal series of black points defined by a crenulate white line; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing pale brown, with dark terminal line; the cilia white. Under- side of fore wing pale brown, with the costal and terminal areas greenish white; hind wing brownish white, the costal area white irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and postmedial line on costal area. LYCOPHOTIA.—ADITA. 579 Ab. 1. flavomaculata. Fore wing bluish green ; hind wing much darker.—Mongolia; Amurland ; Japan. Hab. Brrratx, Leech Coll.; France; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzertanp, Frey Coll.; Scanprnavra ; Russta, Livonia; Moneorra, Changai Mts.; Amurtanp; Jaean, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 ¢,2 @. Exp. 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p- 93; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 367, pl. 182. f. 3. Pale brown to ferruginous ochreous, sides greenish or pale grey ; dorsal line grey-white, developed into a series of confluent spots edged with dark spots: subdorsal line whitish, dark-edged ; spiracular line whitish ; head pale brownish, with indistinct dark markings. Food-plants: Salix, Artemisia, grasses, &e. 5-6. Genus ADITA. T ype. Adita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 63 (1874)............ chionanthi, Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, upturned, the 2nd joint roughly scaled ; eyes large, round, smooth, not ciliated; frons and vertex of head with ridges of scales ; antenne of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; thorax quadrately scaled, the tegule with slight dorsal ridge ; fore tibize with long curved claw on inner side; mid and hind tibize spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 1012. Adita chionanthi. Phalena chionanthi, Abbot & Smith, Ins, Georgia, ii. p. 195, pl. 98 (1797) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 158. 3d. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with blackish scales, the tegulee in front and behind and patagia banded with black: abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous ; a subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; an antemedial black Fie. 93,—, Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly excurved below COSLAY 6 ccs .cSiias cates succes warsiconamece etna seainccsweeatodaaenee satyrica. *1017. Ufeus sagittaria. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 3.) Ufeus sagittarius, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 31 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 190. Red-brown, slightly mixed with pale scales. Fore wing without lines; orbicular replaced by a pale yellowish streak confluent with the lunulate yellowish reniform ; cilia intersected with pale colour. Hind wing pale yellowish fuscous, the underside with broad trigonate discoidal spot. Hab. U.S.A., California. Hap.40 millim. This species is un- known to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 1018. Ufeus plicata. Ufeus plicatus, Grote, Bull. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 102 (1873); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 266; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 190. Head and thorax red-brown or dark brown ; abdomen pale reddish or grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with fuscous or often suffused with fuscous, more or less distinct black streaks in and below cell usually present; a more or less distinct oblique antemedial black line angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin; the postmedial line black, defined by pale Fig. 95.— Ufeus plicata, S. }. colour on outer edge, strongly bent outwards below costa, then produced to slight streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 5, then oblique; a terminal series of black points or short streaks on the veins ; cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind wing pale brownish ; the underside with more or less distinct discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line usually present. Hab. Canaps, 1 9; U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Colorado (Cockerell), 2 2, California, 1 9; Artzona, 1 9 ; Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege),2 9, Durango (Becker), 1 2, Godman-Salvin Coll. Avp. 44-48 millim. UFEUS.—ANYTUS. 585 1019. Ufeus unicolor. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 4.) Ufeus unicolor, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 179 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 190. 3. Head and thorax black-brown; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing black-brown, with traces of a postmedial line bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein +4, then oblique. Hind wing pale brown with a slight reddish tinge. Ab. 1. Hind wing dark brown irrorated with grey.—Colorado. Hah, U.S.A., Illinois, 1 g type, Colorado (Cockerell), 2 3. Exp. 42 millim. 1020. Ufeus satyrica. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 5.) Ufeus satyricus, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 101, pl. 3. f. 4 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 191. On @. Head and thorax dark brown with a greyish tinge ; abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with fuscous hair-like scales, thickly to the postmedial line ; an indistinct curved antemedial line; slight blackish streaks in base of submedian fold and in end of cell; a curved postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa and produced to short streaks on the veins ; a series of short streaks in the interspaces before termen, the one above vein 5 longest. Hind wing pale irrorated with fuscous hair-like scales ; a discoidal lunule ; the underside with indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canana; U.S.A., N. York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, 1 9. Exp. 46 millim. Genus ANYTUS. Type Anytus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 144 (1873) .........0.. privata. Proboscis fully developed ;_ palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; frons smooth, rounded; eyes large ; antenne of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with ridge-like crest; tibie fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiw spined; abdomen with slight dorsal crests and rough hair towards base. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle, or shortly stalked. Secr. I. Antenne of male with short fasciculate branches. 1021. Anytus evelina. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 6.) Hadena evelina, French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 71 (1888); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 141. ¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey; frons above and tegule at middle with black lines. Fore wing dark purplish grey, suffused with vinous below end of cell to postmedial 586 . NOCTUIDAE. line, in discal fold, and before the subterminal line; the subbasal line waved from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and inwards on yein 1; claviform moderately developed, defined by black and with a black streak from its extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate at the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and with some whitish on its outer edge in submedian fold; the subterminal line whitish, with dentate brown marks on its inner edge, connected between veins 2 and 8 by black streaks with the terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with fine white line at base. Hind wing white, the inner area tinged with ochreous, the terminal area irrorated with fuscous; a black terminal line; cilia with brown line through them; the underside with small black discoidal lunule. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, California, 1 <6, Truckee, Shasta Co., Sierra Nevada. Hvp. 48 millim. Larva. Dyar, Can. Ent. 1894, p. 20. Head dusky green: ocelli black; body green mottled with white ; a narrow dorsal white line; traces of a subdorsal line formed in ageregated mottlings ; a stigmatal line passing below the spiracle on somite 12 and on to anal foot ; spiracles ringed with black. Later stages pale brown mottled with black, forming oblique segmental shades; head brown, reticulated with dark brown ; cervical shield and anal plate dark brown, the former edged in front with black; piliferous dots black, narrowly ringed with white. Food-plants: Lupinus, Ribes. Sror, I[. Antenne of male ciliated. A, Fore wing with diffused fuscous fascia ‘in submedian fold... atristrigata. B. Fore wing without fuscous in submedian fold. a. Fore wing with the dominant colour grey-white ......... privata. b. Fore wing with the dominant colour fuscous brown ...... profunda. c. Fore wing with the dominant colour black .................. obscura. *1022, Anytus atristrigata. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 7.) Anytus atristrigatus, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 460 (1900). Grey, more or less tinged with fuscous; head with fuscous lines on frons and between antennze; tegule tipped with black ; shoulders with black band ; patagia edged with blackish. Fore wing with the markings distinct; a black streak with diffused fuscous on each side of it in submedian fold from base to termen; subbasal line double, blackish, dentate ; antemedial line double, black, the two lines well separated at costa, approximated towards inner margin, irregular, and strongly dentate inwards on vein 1; claviform obsolete; orbi- cular round or elliptical, with whitish annulus; reniform large, broad especially above, with fuscous centre defined by black ; medial shade black at costa, angled outwards to lower angle of cell; postmedial line unusually near termen, double, the outer line stronger, black, the included space white, irregularly dentate, bent ANYTUS. 587 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, strongly dentate outwards in submedian fold; a blackish mark bevond it in discal fold to the irregular, incomplete, whitish subterminal line; a ter- minal series of black spots; cilia intersected with black. Hind wing nearly pure white, with a punctiform dark postmedial line and terminal series of lunules; the underside with dark irroration: a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Texas. Evp. 37-41 millim. This species is un- known to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 1023. Anytus privata. Polia privata, Wik. xi. 521 (1857); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 109. Acronycta monstrata, W1k. xi. 709 (1857). Xylina sculpta, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 114, pl. 3. f. 1 1873). ane Mate Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 185 (1882). Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi with some black at sides; tegulz with black medial line; tarsi with white rings; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing grey, irrorated and partly suffused with dark brown; a black streak below base of cell and subbasal striga from costa ; an antemedial black line defined by whitish on inner side, bent inwards and interrupted at subcostal nervure, oblique to submedian fold, where it is connected with the postmedial line by a black streak and angled inwards at vein 1 ; claviform with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish defined by black, the former round; the postmedial Fig. 96.—Anytus privata, 3. }. line strongly bent outwards below costa, then slightly dentate and . produced to streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4 and strongly angled inwards in submedian fold ; the subterminal line with diffused brown on its outer edge, excurved from below costa to vein 5, then dentate; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing white suffused with brown and the veins brown; a brown terminal line ; cilia slightly mixed with brown; the underside with discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 2, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 3, U.S.A., Eastern and Middle States, New Hampshire, N. York, 5 6,6 2, type and types monstrata and sculpta, Colorado. Lwp. 40-44 millim. 588 NOCTUIDZ. 1024. Anytus profunda. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 8.) Anytus profundus, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 218, pl. 5. f. 4 (1900). ¢. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with black and grey; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused with dark brown and fuscous and irrorated with black; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an-indistinct oblique waved antemedial line defined by grey on inner side; orbicular and reniform irrorated with white and defined by black, the former somewhat oblique, elliptical ; the post- medial line minutely dentate, defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved and in submedian fold angled inwards nearly to antemedial line; the subterminal line represented by a series of diffused blackish dentate marks, slightly towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in discal and submedian folds; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white; a diffused subterminal band of fuscous irroration; the veins tinged with fuscous; a terminal series of black strive; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous; a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Manitoba, Brandon, 1 ¢. Exp. 42 millim. 1025. Anytus obscura. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 9.) Anytus obscurus, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 218 (1900). ¢. Head and thorax black slightly mixed with grey and the frons with brown; pectus with more grey; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous brown, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing black irrorated with grey; the subbasal line waved from costa to sub- median fold, defined by grey on outer side; the antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by grey on inner side ; claviform indistinctly defined by black; orbicular and reniform irrorated with grey and obscurely defined by black, the former rounded, open above; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, slightly defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; the subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of dentate black marks defined by some white suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white irro- rated with fuscous; the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous; a terminal black line; cilia white, with fuscous line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with black, a slight discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Calgary (Wolley Dod), 2 3. Exp. 36 millim. Genus ANOMOGYNA. Type Anomogyna, Staud.Cat.p, 1NOUST1)” Moccs-astesenanasensesacesrenaian letabilis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, broadly scaled in front, the 3rd joint moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antenne of male ANOMOGYNA. 589 typically minutely serrate and ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough spatulate hair, the latter with spreading crests on pro- and metathorax ; fore tibix fringed with hair; mid and hind tibie spined; abdomen clothed with rough hair at base and with lateral tufts towards extremity. Fore wing broad, the apex rectangular; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly streaked. Sucr. I. Antennz of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. A, Fore wing more or less strongly tinged with rufous ............ infimatis. B; Fore wing without rufous tinge..............0..-co.seecere cenereenes vernilis. 1026. Anomogyna infimatis. Agrotis infimatis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 93 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 69. Head and thorax grey, mixed with rufous, brown, or black ; sides of palpi except at extremity and of frons black ; tegule with black medial line and usually brown or rufous tips; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged with brown or rufous, sometimes forming prominent streaks in the interspaces ; a black streak below base of cell con- fluent with the narrow elongate black-defined claviform ; subbasal line almost obsolete; antemedial line very indistinct, whitish, and highly dentate; orbicular represented by an oblique whitish streak defined by black; reniform small, blackish, with white annulus Fig. 97.— Anomogyna infimatis, $. t. defined by black, produced outwards at upper extremity and inwards at median nervure ; postmedial line represented by black and white points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being brownish or rufous, strongly dentate inwards above vein 7 and at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing whitish tinged with yellowish or grey-brown; a terminal series of dark striz ; the underside with traces of discoidal point and curved post- medial line. Hab. Canana, Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 6,19; US.A., Washington Terr., 1 2, California (Walsingham), 4 $, Havilah, 29 type. Exp. 34-44 millim. 590 _ NOOCTUID. 1027. Anomogyna vernilis. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 10.) Agrotis vernilis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 57 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 65 g. Head and thorax white and black mixed; palpi black, the 3rd joint grey; antenne black; tegule with black medial lne; abdomen brownish. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irro- rated with black ; the veins streaked with black ; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented by a striga from costa, the ante- medial line by a very oblique streak across cell; claviform narrow, elongate, in continuation of the basal streak ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, with whitish annuli and grey centres, the former oblique, elliptical, its lower extremity produced and confluent with the reniform ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, oblique, very highly dentate and produced to points on the veins; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being rather browner, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing grey paced with brown ; cilia white at tips; the underside white irrorated with brown and with traces of discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 ¢ type, Nevada, California, Sierra Nevada. wp. 33 millim. Sror, II. Antennz of male minutely serrate and ciliated. A. Fore wing with prominent white annuli to orbieular and PEMULOTIMGS hl AM aLaee eee acest as aecesesesetereeseeeeecer aes letabilis. B. Fore wing without white annuli to stigmata. a. Fore wing with the reniform prominently defined by rise reek . Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish ......... sincera. Fore wing with the ground- -colour bluish grey ...... albuncula. ae wing i the reniform replaced by a reddish patch or almost obsolete: ......-2.1--scececcseernrereeeveese gelida. 1028. Anomogyna letabilis. Hadena letabilis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 940 (1840); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. Hadena obliterata, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 941 (1840) ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 288, folk GS ale Onhiiee schonherri, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. vi. p. 60, f. 598 (1856), nec Guen. Caradrina distensa, Ey. Bull. Mose. 1851, ii. p. 633; id. iv. p. 531 (1855), pl. 1. £. 2 (1856). Head and thorax grey mixed with white; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; an indistinct waved sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold, with a short black streak below its extremity ; an oblique crenulate antemedial line; clavi- form elongate, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform whitish, irrorated with brown and outlined with black, the former elliptical or nearly round and with blackish streaks or suffusion between it ANOMOGYNA. 591 and reniform ; a highly dentate postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct grey subterminal line with some black dentate marks on its inner edge, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing Fig. 98.—Anomogyna leiabilis, 3. 4. grey slightly irrorated with pale brown; an indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, more distinct on underside; a terminal series of strie. Hab. Canava, Labrador; Scanprnavia, Dovrefjeld, 1 gd, 1 2, Finmark, Bossekop (Chapman), 3 ¢. Hap. 3 40, 9 32 millim. 1029. Anomogyna sincera. Agrotis sincera, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 412 (1851); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 59. Agrotis zelleri, Herr.-Schaff. Kur. Schmett. ii. ff. 512-13 (1851). Agrotis rhetica, Staud. Cat. p. 82 (1871). Head and thorax grey, largely mixed with brown and slightly with black ; abdomen pale brown and grey, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey, slightly tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with black; a black streak above base of vein 1; a subbasal line defined by grey on outer side from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, in submedian fold and above inner margin ; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform very large, grey, defined by black and with some black in lower part of cell before and between them, the former elliptical, sometimes oblong, open above ; a dentate postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct grey subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some fuscous suffusion and pale points before it on costa and some short black streaks before it, most pro- minent above veins 7, 5, 4, and below 2; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish slightly tinged with brown; a discoidal lunnle and sinuous postmedial line distinct on underside ; a terminal dark line; cilia white. The form rhetica from the Alps is browner. Hab. Canava, Labrador; U.S.A., mountains of Northern and Middle States ; Germany, mountains ; SwirzpRLanp, Engadine, 3d, 29, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Sweprn; Russia, Finland; Sreertra, Amur. Hap. 44-50 millim. 592 . NOCTUIDA, 1030. Anomogyna albuncula. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 11.) Cymatophora albuncula, Ey. Bull. Mose. ii. p.627 (1851); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139. grotis subgrisea, Staud. Iris, x. p. 330, pl. 9. f. 25 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen bluish white mixed with fuscous ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing blue-grey, thickly irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous in parts ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa; traces of an antemedial line oblique from costa to above vein 1 where it is angled; claviform a small blackish mark : orbicular and reniform bluish white defined by black, the former elongate, elliptical, irrorated with fuscous, the latter suffused with fuscous ; postmedial line defined by bluish white on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line defined by the area beyond it being slightly darker, two short black streaks before it below costa, streaks on it above and below vein 5 and a small spot in submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with fuscous; cilia white; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal] series of small lunules. In the specimen before me the orbicular is heart-shaped on right-hand side, on the left produced towards base and on outer side to become confluent with reniform. Hab. N. Stperta, Verkhoiansk, 1 ¢ ; S.E. Srperta. Lap. 88 millim. 1031. Anomogyna gelida. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 12.) Agrotis comparata, Sparre-Schneider, Ent. Tidskr. 1883, p. 77 (nee Méschl.). Agrotis gelida, Sparre-Schneider, Ent. Tidskr. 1883, p. 88; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. Agrotis gelida, var. mevesi, Auriy. Nord. Fjir. p. 116, f. 22 (1888). $: Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; the sub- basal line represented by black strie from costa and cell; a black streak below base of cell, curved downwards near base; the ante- medial Jine angled outwards in cell and submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform rather elongate, defined by black and with a blackish streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular large, open above, strongly defined by black below and with slight pinkish annulus ; reniform very indis- tinct, replaced by a pinkish patch; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; the subterminal line represented by short black streaks above veins 4 and 5 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochre- ous whitish with fine dark terminal line; the underside irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. ANOMOGYNA.—NXESTIA. 593 Ab. 1. mevesi. Browner; fore wing without the pinkish patch on the reniform ; hind wing more irrorated with brown. Hab. Norway, Varanger, Bergen, 1 6, Zeller Coll.; SweEpen, Jemtland, type tT ¢ mevesi in Mus. Stockholm, Lapland; N. Srperta, Verkhoiansk, 1 ¢. vp. 46 millim. Genus XESTIA. Type. Aayiin, Valilai, WO, [o> PBYA ((USPAG))) cooodeadondanesonces-oosnssnecoou00000 ochreago. JEN GHA, ERO, INCOR vo 40) BIE) (CUSBYA) sascapppocasbacaoeeode5uc0qoe0C ochreago. Eicomorpha, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 24 (1888)............0 antiqua. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; eyes large, rounded; frons smooth; head and thorax clothed with hair only ; the prothorax with ridge-like crest, the metathorax with slight crest; tibiz spined and fringed with long hair on outer side. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute and the termen excised below it; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; the termen excised below apex. Secr. I, Antenne of male bipectinate, with moderate branches to near apex. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-brown. a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines obsolete ...... antiqua. 6. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines well- GLEE Gacrecbodscund ds ubondeEscocbcen SoauEnce Besa brenancansoponee coppeni. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous .................0.4+ ochreago. 1032, Xestia antiqua. Eicomorpha antiqua, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 24 (1888); Alph. Rom. Mém. ix. pl. 7. f.5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154, gd. Grey; the vextex of head and thorax tinged with brown. Fore wing with the subbasal line represented by some brown scales below costa and cell; some brown suffusion along vein 1; a small brown spot at lower angle of cell; the subterminal line represented by a slight brown patch on costa, and very indistinct excurved part at median nervules. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Sarawschan, Ferghana, 1 ¢. Hep. 46 millim. 1033, Xestia coppeni. Eicomorpha koppeni, Alph. Iris, vi. p. 346 (1896); id. Rom., Mem. ix, p- 211, pl. 7. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. 3. Head and thorax pale brown and whitish, with some fuscous on middle of tegulee and base of patagia ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown, whitish at base; the subbasal line repre- sented by slight strize from costa, the antemedial line oblique, waved, sometimes with a striga beyond it on costa; traces of an oblique elliptical orbicular stigma ; reniform small, indistinct, with a striga above it on costa; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then VOL. IV. ZQ 594 NOCTUIDA. oblique ; subterminal line pale, defined by slight fuscoussuffusion on inner side, more prominent at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a dark terminalline. Hind wing pale fuscous, with indistiicet dark discoidal lunule and dark terminal line; cilia pale, with a brown line through them. Hab. W. Turxestan, Turcomania, Sarawschan, Askabad, 1 ¢. Exp. 52 willim. 1034. Xestia ochreago. Noctua ochreago, Hiibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 451 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 284, pl. 117. f. 8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. Xestia ochrojois, Hiibn. Verz. p. 233 (1827). Xanthia rubecula, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. p. 853; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 70, ff. 457, 488 (1837). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown; abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown ; an indistinct, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line, slightly angled outwards below costa ; claviform rather small, defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by brown, the former oblique, elliptical, the Fig. 99.—Xestia ochreago, 3. latter with some black in its lower part ; traces of an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a minutely dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a subterminal somewhat diffused line, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous, tinged with rufous and suffused with fuscous except attermen. Underside of fore wing with some fuscous suffusion on disk and curved post- medial line. Hab. France; Switzertanp, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Ivaty; Armenta. wp. 38 millim. Sxcr. II. Antennx of male bipectinate, with very short fasciculate branches, the apical part serrate. 1035. Xestia miniago. AXanthia miniago, Frey. Neu. Beitr. Schmett. ix. pl. 304. f. 4 (1839) ; Herr.- Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. p. 201, f. 118 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. Hiptelia variago, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 44; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 202. Head and thorax brownish ochreous with a pink tinge; palpi rufous, whitish at tips ; sides of frons and shaft of antennz whitish ; XESTIA.—RICHIA. 595 abdomen pale brownish ochreous, the ventral surface with a pink tinge. Fore wing pale ochreous brown tinged with pink; an oblique whitish antemedial line, slightly excurved below costa and angled outwards above inner margin : orbicular and reniform slightly defined by whitish, the fermer oblique, elliptical, the latter with its centre more or less tinged with fuscous; a whitish postmedial line Fig. 100.—AXestia miniago, d. }. excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of black points on the veins beyond it; an indistinct pale subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, sometimes with slight fuscous points on its inner side. Hind wing white. Ab. 1. Antenne pale brown; fore wing with diffused black medial shade. Ab. 2. variago. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and irrorated with fuscous. Hab. 8. Russta, Sarepta, Zeller Coll.; Asta Minor, Pontus ; W. Sreerta, Altai; W. Turxesran, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-kul; E. Turxesran, Thian-Shin Mts.; ? KE. Sippria. Lvp. 36-42 millim. Genus RICHIA. ft ie. hichia, Grote; Can: Hint. xix, p.44 (188i) sacceescssn.cteoseees chortalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 5rd moderate ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded, smooth ; antennz of male typically minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and _ thorax clothed with hair and seales, the prothorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the metathorax with slight crest ; tibize strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle. Sect. I. Antenne of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous. a. Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous, a, Fore wing with the subterminal line almost straight. cwrviplena. >‘, Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below COsLALATIC Ab NAGLE. cee romeocewelesieeertsestisdone as: westiodes. 4, Hind wing ochreous, tinged with fuscous towards termen. a, Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate...... Suscisignata. b\, Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate ......... brunneago. Py (ay ‘ 596 NOCLUID®. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. a. Fore wing tinged with rufous, the medial area suffused With TUSCOUG, sev-.ts-geecsdes cosets cctessdeevesmnoncscee sce parentalis. }. Fore wing without rufous tinge or fuscous suffusion. a’. Fore wing with black spot on subterminal line at (DIY. Cannnoansadeoss suse pnsodds cnnaegeceodncoagsbeacausG005 distichoides. b1, Fore wing without black spot on subterminal line BR. (COIS, eqsnseenndadosoandnondanokaousdaodcdar PoeebdacasEaTss chortalis. 1036. Richia curviplena. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 13.) Orthosia curviplena, W1k. xxxiii. 715 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 185. Head and thorax ochreous, the scales tipped with rufous ; palpi red-brown except at tips; pectus and legs tinged with red-brown ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally irrorated with rufous. Fore wing ochreous, thickly irrorated with rufous; a double rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an obliquely curved, double, waved antemedial line with an oblique striga before it in cell, a streak starting from its lower extremity, running along median nervure and then forming upper edge ot claviform ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by rufous, the former somewhat ovate, and both with a little whitish on their lower edges ; a rather indistinct waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line double, the inner dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the veins beyond it streaked with rufous; the subterminal line deep rufous, straight, oblique ; a fine slightly waved subterminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area and terminal half irrorated with brown, a slight sinuous postmedial line and obscure diffused subterminal band. Hab, Sixx1m (Atkinson, Moller, Pilcher), 13 g, 2 92, type. Exp. 40 millim. 1037. Richia xestiodes, n. sp. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 14.) Head and thorax pale rufous, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi dark rufous, paler at tips; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft fulvous yellow. Fore wing ochreous with a violaceous tinge and irrorated with rufous ; a rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique antemedial line slightly incurved to costa and excurved above inner margin; claviform defined with rufous above and at extremity; orbicular and reniform large, defined by rufous, the former elliptical, the cell before and between them suffused with rufous; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; a waved postmedial line excurved below costa, incurved in discal and submedian folds; the subterminal line broadly defined by rufous on inner side and slightly on outer, excurved below costa and at middle; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous. Under- side ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark postmedial line. Hab. Kasuuir, Goorais Valley (Leech),2 5,19, type. LHvp. 38 millim. | RICHIA,. 597 1038. Richia fuscisignata, n. sp. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 15.) 2. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with ochreous; palpi darker rufous except at tips: abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with rufous : traces of a whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique whitish antemedial line with brownish line on its inner side; orbicular and reniform defined by fine whitish lines, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with blackish marks in its upper and lower extremities ; postmedial line whitish, defined by a fine brown line on inner side and a stronger line on outer; subterminal line whitish, defined by brown suffusion on its inner side, angled outwards above vein 6 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small brown lunules. Hind wing and underside ochreous yellow. Hab, Kasuuir, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 2 type. Hxp. 42 millim, 1039. Richia brunneago. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 16.) Hiptelia brunneago, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 826 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- 202. ¢. Head and thorax rufous, the tegule with a few white scales ; legs browner ; abdomen ochreous yellow, tinged with rufous below. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with rufous, more thickly on terminal area; the subbasal line represented by double striae from costa; an oblique, waved, antemedial line; claviform defined by brown, very small and narrow; the cell suffused with brown, obscuring the orbicular and reniform which are defined by brown, the former elliptical, the latter with fuscous spots in its lower extremity ; postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line dark, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a dark patch before it at costa; « fine dark terminal line. Hind wing ochreous tinged with fuscous especially towards costa and termen ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Tier, Sinin Mts.,1 ¢, Kuku-noor, Amdo. Hap. 40 millim. 1040. Richia parentalis. (Plate LAXVI. fig. 17.) Agrotis parentalis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 44 (1879); id. Ill. Essay, 53, pl. 1. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 108. Agrotis decipiens, Grote, N, Am. Ent. i. p. 45 (1879). 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with ferruginous red; sides of palpi and frons with some black scales. Fore wing pale purplish red-brown, sparsely irrorated with darker scales ; the costal area suffused with blue-grey; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa; the ante- medial line black, strong from costa to submedian fold, angled 598 NOCTUID®. outwards in and below cell and more strongly above inner margin ; the medial area suffused with black: the orbicular and reniform greyish, the former round ; the postmedial line black, oblique from costa to vein 5, then incurved and dentate; the subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side and with fuscous patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal punctiform line. Hind wing grey-brown irrorated with reddish brown ; the cilia pinkish; the underside with slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial series of points on the veins. Ab. 1. decipiens. 9. Head and thorax blue-grey irrorated with dark brown; fore wing much darker; the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines indistinct, dark not black. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 ¢,1 2, type and type decipiens, New Mexico. Exp. 42 millim. *1041. Richia distichoides. Ammoconia distichoides, Grote, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. viii. p. 48 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 109. Uniform olivaceous grey. Fore wing slightly irrorated with black ; the antemedial line distinct at costa, then indistinct, excurved in interspaces ; stigmata approximated, indistinct, tinged with reddish ; a medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell and distinct from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line represented by a series of dark points on the veins; subterminal line faint, dark, arising from a trigonate black spot on costa; au interrupted black terminal line. Hind wing pale fuscous; the cilia paler: the underside with discoidal spot and postmedial line represented by slight streaks on the veins of costal area. Hab. US.A., New Mexico. vp. 35 millim. This species is unknown to me. 1042. Richia chortalis. Agrotis chortalis, Harr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. ii. p. 272 (1875) ; id. iii. pp. 5, 74, pl. 3. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 108. Ammoconia aratrix, Harr. Bull. Buff, Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 74, pl. 3. f. 8 (1875). ¢. Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown; palpi black except towards extremity, sides of frons black; abdomen grey, strongly irrorated with reddish brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with dark brown; a black point at base of vein 1; an interrupted black subbasal line from below costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line black from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and interrupted at the veins, indistinct brownish, double and sinuous towards inner margin; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and brownish outline, the former round, the latter large, an indistinct medial line angled inwards in cell and outwards to lower angle; the postmedial line double, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved: a pale subterminal line, defined by brownish on RICHTA. 599 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a more or less prominent terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with brown ; the weer | ff [ Fig. 101.—Richia chortalis, 3. }. underside with discoidal point and curved subterminal series of dark points on the veins. Q. Hind wing almost wholly suffused with brown. Ab. 1. aratriv. Fore wing without the black on the subbasal and antemedial lines. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, 2 3,2 92, type and type aratrix, New Mexico, Arizona. vp. 44-48 millim. Srer. IL. Antenne of male ciliated. *1043. Richia carnea. Richia carnea, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 200 (1903). 3. Head and thorax deep flesh-red, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; tegule with two fine grey lines at middle and one at tips; tibie irrorated with white; abdomen whitish tinged with flesh-red towards extremity, the anal tuft and ventral surface flesh- red. Fore wing deep flesh-red, the scales very slightly pencilled with grey; the subbasal line represented by a black band from Fig. 102.—Richia carnea, 3. }. costa to submedian fold interrupted at cell, with a spot beyond it below cell ; a dirty-white fascia in submedian fold from near base to antemedial line, which is represented by an oblique black bar from costa, a point in cell and an oblique striga from median nervure; orbicular and reniform slightly darker brown with fine pale annuli, the former elliptical and with a black point above it on costa; the 600 NOCTUIDAE. postmedial line very indistinct, dentate, with a prominent black spot on it at costa and a series of black points on its inner side between vein 6 and submedian fold, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some white points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by a brownish patch on its inner side at costa, then represented by a series of small black and white spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with red. Hab. Cate (Edmonds), 1 S type in Coll. Druce. wp. 46 millim. Genus HYPOXESTIA, nov. Type, H. dilatata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd naked, moderate ; frons smcoth ; eyes large; antennz of male with cilia and bristles; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter with ridge-like dorsal crest ; fore tibize broadly fringed with hair on outer side, mid and hind tibiw spined. Fore wing broad, the apex somewhat produced ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 1044. Hypoxestia dilatata. Mesogona dilatata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 864 (1879). Head and thorax deep red-brown ; legs darker brown ; abdomen brown mixed with grey, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing pale red-brown with a purplish tinge ; a subbasal rufous line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; a minutely waved somewhat oblique antemedial line; orbicular and reniform defined a WR ry? A 4 4 fa {Or ie V R Fig. 105.—Hypowestia dilatata, d. 3. by rufous, large, the former greyish, the latter dark, the cell before and between them deep rufous; a deep rufous band before the postmedial line, which is minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; a slightly sinuous rufous subterminal line with the area beyond it rather darker; a fine crenulate terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous. Underside of fore wing rufous, with the disk fuscous; hind wing ochreous, with the costal area rufous. ee TRICHORTHOSIA.—PARAXESTIA. 601 Hab. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer),5 3,1 2 type, Kiushiu, 1 6, 39; EH. Cura, Da-laen-sau (J. J. Walker), 19. Exp. 46-54 millim. Genus TRICHORTHOSIA. Dips Prichorthosia, Grote, Pap. ili. p. 31 (1883).........:..c0cccbeceseoesens parallela. Proboscis rather weak; palpi rather short, oblique, the 3rd joint conical ; eyes large, round, hairy and overhung by long cilia; head and thorax clothed with loose hair, the latter without crests ; fore tibixe not spined ; mid and hind tibiz spined, the spines irregularly disposed near end of tibize ; abdomen without crests. Kure wing with the costa straight, the apex acute, the termen rounded ; neuration normal. This genus is not in the Key and Phylogeny; the only other genus with hairy eyes and spined tibiw is Ala. *1045. Trichorthosia parallela. Trichorthosia parallela, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 31 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. Olive ochreous. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines double, faint ; orbicular represented by a dark point; reniform tinged with red and with some black points below ; subterminal line double, the inner the stronger, not continued to costa, the terminal area suffused with white. Hind wing fuscous; the cilia pale. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. Hap. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me. Genus PARAXESTIA, nov. Type, P. flavicaudata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned, reaching vertex of head, fringed with hair in front and behind at base, the 3rd joint long, naked, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, overhung by long cilia; antennx of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair without erests; fore tibize without spines; mid and hind tibiz strongly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with long hair at base, the claspers of male large. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen crenulate ; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with & to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cilia crenulate; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle. 1046. Paraxestia flavicaudata. Anphipyra flavicaudata, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 312; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 196, Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with dark brown and many of the hairs tipped with grey; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface and claspers of male yellower. Fore wing pale purplish brown ; a subbasal brown line from costa to submedian fold and with brownish suffusion between it and the two antemedial lines, which are waved and incurved in cell and at vein 1, the inner 602 NOCTUID.&. line diffused; the orbicular and reniform only defined by brown lines on their inner and outer sides, a strong yellow-brown medial - shade passing between them; the postmedial line waved, bent outwards below costa and inecurved below vein +; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line defined by a broad yellow-brown band on its inner side, dentate outwards at veins 6, 4, Fig, 104.—Paraxestia flavicaudata, G. }. 3, 2; a crenulate terminal line; cilia ochreous with a darker line through them. Hind wing yellow-brown suffused with fuscous ; the cilia yellow-brown, with ochreous line at base; the underside with discoidal lunule and slightly sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Kasuuir, Jalauri Pass (McArthur), 2 6,1 9; Punsas, Thundiani (Yerbury), 9 2 type. Exp. 56-60 millim. Genus MYTHIMNA. Type. Mythimna, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 78 (1816), non descr. ; Preitsscumeth. Hun va (2) pn Lit (US20)) seesesececcseese: Sasige.ns oxalina. Orthosia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 79 (1816), non deser. ; Preity Sehmetts Hureve(2) ps 20 (S25) Meeeescce- seen eee -eeeees cecimacula, Cerastis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 84 (1816), non descr. ; reit. Senmett. Hur: v. (2) p. 895 (W820) c22.- 22.2... osee-c ence rubricosa. Mesogona, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 144 (1840) ..................2.0068 acetoselle. Ammoconia, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 97 (1857) — .......2..seseecceee eens cecimacula. Pseudoglga, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 18 (1876) .............0.08. blanda. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with long , hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennz of male typically ciliated; head and thorax clotled with rough hair only; fore tibie fringed with hair; mid and hind tibie spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen crenulate and slightly excised in discal fold; veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked. Sor. I, Antenne of male bipectinate to apex, with rather long branches. A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata. a. Forewing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical, very large. coryphea. b. Fore wing with the orbicular U-shaped...................2.065 pallescens. B. Fore wing with the cell tinged with black before and beiweentbhereiemeabay cece secnceceer eee seer ce seeeeee sana celebs, @> Hore wing with’ the cell motiblack. S7vecasce-ensseoateoreeseene leucographa, MYTHIMNA, 603 *1047. Mythimna coryphea. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 9.) Agrotis coryphea, Ping. Iris, xiii. p. 118, pl. 4. f. 4 (1899); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 254. @. Head and thorax pale purplish pink; abdomen whitish flesh- colour, pinker below. Fore wing with the basal area, and costal area to subterminal line, pale flesh-pink, the rest of wing rather yellower flesh-colour; subbasal line deep chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1; antemedial line deep chocolate, stronger on costal half, oblique, irregularly sinuous, and with fuscous suffusion before 1t on inner area; orbicular and reniform very large, pale flesh-pink, the former irregularly oblique, elliptical, open above, the latter with fuscous-suffused centre, some chocolate in cell before and between them ; an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line strong towards costa, then fine and dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line defined by red-brown suffusion on inner side and by fuscous at costa, angled outwards at vein 7, inwards at discal fold, and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with pink: the underside with the costal area pinker and with slight discoidal point. Hab, Trser, Kuku-noor, type + 2 in Coll. Piingeler. Hwp, 42 millim, 1048. Mythimna pallescens. Semiophora pallescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 166 (1878); id. Ill. Het. B. M. ii. p. 29, pl. 30. f.4; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. Teniocampa lata, Staud. Rom. Mém. vi. p. £96, pl. 9. f. 4 (1892). Bright rufous ; palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing with curved subbasal black line from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line bent outwards below costa and angled inwards on vein 1; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reniform concolorous, defined by deep black in the cell before and between them, the former hemispherical, open above, the latter with slight greyish outline; the postmedial line dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; the sub- terminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a dark patch before it at costa; some dark points on termen sometimes present. Hind wing rather paler, with traces of postmedial and subterminal waved lines; the underside with dark discoidal spot. and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Amurtanp, Ussuri; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas), 1 ¢,1 9 type, (Pryer),2 3,4 9. Exp. 46 millim. 1049. Mythimna celebs. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 18.) Agrotis celebs, Staud. Iris, viii. p, 313 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 157. 3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double dentate antemedial line, strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and 604 NOCTUID®. reniform defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former round, open above, the latter open above and below, some fuscous suffusion in cell before and between the stigmata and beyond the reniform; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- terminal line ill-defined, diffused, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pale ochreous brown, darker towards termen; a fine dark terminal line; cilia pale; the underside greyer irrorated with brown, a small dark discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Trser, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo. Exp. 40 millim. 1050. Mythimna leucographa. Noctua leucographa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1775) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 411,572; Dup. Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 440, pl. 39; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. Noctua lepetitii, Boisd. Ic. Lép. d’Eur. pl. 83. f. 2 (1832). Orthosia amicta, Donz. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 527, pl. 8. f. 3. Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the hairs tipped with grey; abdomen greyish brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface bright rufous. Fore wing bright rufous, slightly irrorated with grey; a grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line indistinct, waved, slightly defined by grey on inner Fig. 105.—Mythimna leucographa, 3. }. side; traces of a small greyish claviform; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by fuscous, the former round, a diffused waved medial shade passing between them; the postmedial line dentate and produced to grey points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; some terminal dark points. Hind wing pale reddish suffused with brown ; the underside whitish, irrorated with rufous especially on costal area, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved at middle. Ab. 1. anucta. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with fuscous. Hab, Briain; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey Coll.; Drnmarx; Russia, Finland, Livonia, 1 ¢ ; RUMELEA ; AmuriLann. Lap. 34-88 millim. I MYTHIMNA. 605 Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 225, pl. 214. f. 1. Pale green, or reddish ochreous with darker irroration ; pale dorsal and sometimes subdorsal lines; a lateral series of dark oblique streaks sometimes present; spiracular line pale greenish or whitish; head greenish. Food-plants: Saliv, Rumex, Plantago, land ese. 57. Suer. II. (Orthosia). Antennz of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown..............+++- rubricosa. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. a. Fore wing with the lines distinct ...............cesseceeseeeeee cecimacula. b. Fore wing with the lines indistinct ................ssesseeeees senen. 1051. Mythimna rubricosa. Noctua rubricosa, Schift.Wien.Verz. p.77 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 176 (1787); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 430; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 99, pl. 79; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 160; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. Medial mucida, Hsp. Schmett. iv. pl. 148. f. 4 (1786). Noctua pilicornis, Brahm. Ins. ii. p. 193 (1791). Noctua rufa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 262 (1803). Noctua mista, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 509 (1827). Head and thorax purple or red-brown suffused with grey ; palpi blackish except at tips; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark red or purple-brown suffused with grey ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique Fig. 106.— Mythimna rubricosa, 3, }. waved antemedial line defined by grey on outer side; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity; an indistinct waved medial shade oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved; the post- medial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4; some whitish points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line brown, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of blackish points; cilia brown, with a grey line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia tinged with pink; the underside pale thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. rufa. Much redder. One specimen has an oblique bar between vein 8 and middle of cell of hind wing. 606 NOCTUID®. Hab. Briraty, Leech Coll.; France (Sand); Germany, Zeller Coll.; Huneary, Leech Coll.; Swirzertsanp, Frey Coll.; N. Ivaty ; Batkan Srares; S. Russta; W. Siserta, Altai; W. Turxesran, Ala-tau. wp. 34-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 228, pl. 214. f. 2. Pinkish brown with suffused dark medial segmental bands; dorsal line obscurely paler; subdorsal line narrow, interrupted, pale yellow; spiracular line brownish, anteriorly yellow; head pinkish brown with darker markings. Food-plants : Rumew, Plantago, Stellaria, etc. 4-6. 1052. Mythimna cecimacula. Noctua cecimacula, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (1776): Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 69, pl. 77; Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 187; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Noctua millegrana, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 150. f. 1 (1786). Noctua respersa, Brahm. Ins. p. 541 (1791). Ammoconia sibirica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 37. $. Head and thorax grey, the hairs tipped with brown anda few with black; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with black; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, becoming black below the cell; a sinuous brown antemedial line angled outwards below the costa and with a black mark on it below the cell; orbicular and reniform large, detined by brown, the former elliptical ; an oblique medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the area beyond the cell suffused with brown ; a minutely waved postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a pale dentate subterminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; a dark terminal line. Underside of both wings with black discoidal spots. - 9. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. Ab. 1. sibirica. Paler; the fore wing ochreous or yellowish.— Altai. Hab. Francr, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Frey Coll.; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Iraty; Sircrty; Datmartia ; Asta Mivor, Pontus ; W. Srszrta, Altai, 1 ¢. Hp. 42-54 millim. 1053. Mythimna senex. Noctua senex, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 749-50 (1834) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Polia vetula, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 127 (1840); Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iv. p. 93, pl. 58. f. 4 (1842); Herr.-Schatf. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 108; Mill. Ie. iii. pl. 146. ff. 7-9. Ammoconia mediorhenana, Fuchs, Jhrb. Nass. 1892, p. 91. ¢. Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown; palpi blackish at sides; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous | | | | MYTHIMNA. 607 and fuscous. Fore wing white irrorated with brown; an indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct, double, waved antemedial line, sometimes with slight dark spot below the cell; orbicular and reniform large, obscurely defined by brown, the former round ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a dentate subterminal line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown especially towards termen. Underside of both wings with discoidal spots. @. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. Ab. 1. mediorhenana. Fore wing almost uniform grey. Hab. S. France, Sand Coll.; Swirzernanp; Ivaty; Srcity; Istrra ; Datmarra; Grerce, Leech Coll.; Asta Mrnor, Pontus, 1g,1 92. Hap, 42-46 millim. Larva. Mill. Icones, iii. p. 366, pl. 146. ff. 7-9. Ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown ; dorsal line fine, dark ; a broad whitish lateral line; the ventral surface greenish. Food- plants: when young, low-growing plants ; when older, the flowers of Calycotome spinosa. 6. Sxucr. ITT, (Mythimna). Antenne of male ciliated. A. Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to points on the veins. a. Fore wing with the stigmata clearly defined ............... sobrina. b. Fore wing with the stigmata very indistinct ............... indiana. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not produced to points on the veins. a. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved below cell... banda. 9, Sore wing with the antemedial line not incurved below cell. a‘. Fore wing pale reddish-brown ..................sccseseeeees acetoselle. Paem HOLOSWIMP OGY LOW TM mreseaeecne ceases se esas cece else oxalina. 1054. Mythimna sobrina. Noctua sobrina, Boisd. Ind, Meth. p. 105 (1840); Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 224, pl. 69. f. 5a; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 127, 129; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Noctua mista, Frr. Beitr. Hur. Schmett. pl. 441. f. 3 (1845), nec Hiibn. Noctua lapponica, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. pl. 455. f. 4 (1845). Orthosia gruneri, Guen. Noct. i. p. 336 (1852); Dup. Lép. Fr., Suppl. iv. pl. 69. f. 5. Head and tegule bright rufous; thorax grey suffused with purplish red; tarsi fuscous with ochreous rings ; abdomen ochreous prown, the anal tuft and ventral surface more rufous. Fore wing grey, irrorated with brown and suffused with rufous or purplish red, wholly or on terminal half; a slight waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold with a point beyond it in cell; a waved ante- medial line; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some fuscous on its lower part ; a somewhat waved medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal lines greyish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 608 NOCIUIDA. middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish, suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with purplish red, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. gruneri. Almost without the red shades. Hab. Briratx, Scotland, Leech Coll.; 8. France, Frey Coll.; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp; Swepen, Lapland; Rvssra, Livonia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll.; W. Srseria, Altai. Zxp. 36-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 80, pl. 144. f. 2. Reddish brown ; sides freckled with grey; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale; dots minute, black; head brownish ochreous. Food- plants: birch, Calluna. 9-6. 1055. Mythimna indiana. Agrotis indiana, Guen. Noct. i. p. 802 (1852). Tiracola violacea, But]. Il. Het. vii. p. 54, pl. 127. f. 5 (1889); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 196. Head and thorax dark purplish red-brown ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous.. Fore wing purplish red- brown, very sparsely irrorated with white ; a very indistinct oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined with red-brown, the former round; an indistinct diffused medial shade angled on median nervure ; the postmedial line very indistinct, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; traces of a dentate white subterminal line, with red-brown marks on its inner side; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, with ochreous line at base of cilia; the underside irrorated with white and with indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Ixvia, type fT d im Coll. Oberthur; Kasumir (Thompson), 1 9; Kuru, Sultanpore (G. Young), 2 9 ; Kanera, Dharmsila (Hocking), 2 3,2 2, type violacea. Exp. 52-60 millim. 1056. Mythimna blanda. (Plate LXXYVI. fig. 19.) Choephora blanda, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 86 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. Pseudoglea tedata, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 18 (1876). Pseudoglea decepta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 271 (1881). Pale chestnut to grey-brown; head and thorax with the hair pale at tips; the thorax sometimes suffused with blackish. Fore wing irrorated with black; an oblique antemedial blackish line defined by grey on inner side, excurved in cell and to inner margin and incurved in submedian interspace; orbicular and reniform tinged with fuscous and with pale annuli, the former oblique, the latter large; postmedial line punctiform, blackish, defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- terminal line pale, with series of black points on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal MYTHIMNA. 609 series of black points or crenulate line. Hind wing pale, tinged with pinkish or fuscous; the cilia ochreous or rufous; the underside with discoidal point and slightly curved postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I., 1 Q type; U.S.A., Texas (Belfrage), 1 2 type tedata, Washington Terr., Colorado, 1 ¢ type decepta, California (Walsingham), 1 3. Hxp. 44-46 millim. 1057. Mythimna acetoselle. Noctua acetoselle, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 220; Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 128, pl. 109. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. Noctua acetoselle, var. eremicola, Staud. Cat. p. 114 (1871). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown; palpideeprufous ; abdomen brownish orange, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with black ; an oblique antemedial brown line defined by whitish on inner side; orbicular and reniform large, with whitish annuli, the former round; postmedial line brown, defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct, pale, minutely waved subterminal line with blackish spots on its inner side, often almost obsolete ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing pale pinkish brown, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with fuscous towards termen, leaving the termen and cilia ochreous brown; the underside pale yellowish, with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. eremicola, Paler; fore wing wholly striated with black.— Altai. Hab. Brirain, once; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Huneary, Frey Coll.; Ivaty; S. Russta, Sarepta, 1 ¢ ; ApMmenta; Astra Minor, Pontus, Taurus; W. Srserza, Altai, 1 g¢. Hap. 36-40 millim. 1058. Mythimna oxalina. Noctua oxalina, Hibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 219 (1827); Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 180, pl. 109. f£.3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 211. Ipimorpha intexta, Harr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 136 (1875). Head and thorax reddish brown, the hairs tipped with grey ; antennze with the shaft whitish above ; abdomen yellow-brown, the ventral Fig. 107.—Mythimna oxalina, 3. }. surface reddish brown mixed with grey. Fore wing yellowish brown, suffused with purple-grey and irrorated with fuscous, the medial area slightly browner ; a very oblique brown antemedial line VOL. IV. 2R 610 NOCTUIDE. defined with pale ochreous on inner side and slightly excurved in cell ; orbicular and reniform large, brown, with pale ochreous annuli, the former somewhat elliptical ; the postmedial line brown, defined on inner side by pale ochreous, excurved from costa to vein 5, then very oblique and almost meeting the antemedial line at inner margin; a minutely waved fuscous subterminal line incurved in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing yellowish white tinged with brown ; an oblique slightly sinuous postmedial line and sinuous subterminal line diffused on inner side; the underside with discoidal points, the costal area tinged with pink and irrorated with brown. Hab. U.S.A., New York, Sharon Springs (Meske), 1 g, type entecta ; GERMANY ; Austria, Zeller Coll.; Swirzertanp, Bremgarten, Frey Coll.; Iraty; Russta, Livonia, Galitza, St. Petersburg, Ural Mts. Exp. 40-44 millim. Genus NEUROIS, nov. Type, NV. nigroviridis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head and clothed with rough hair; frons obliquely rounded with slight roughened prominence at extremity ; eyes large, rounded; antennz of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with scales mixed with a few hairs, the metathorax with distinct crest; fore tibiz fringed with hair; mid and hind tibixe with a few spines; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts towards extremity. Fore wing with veins 5 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked. A. Fore wing silvery white thickly irrorated with bronze-green, the terminal area brown .......... jonbanaeasoeroupcosdunsunseonuone nigroviridis. B. Fore wing sap-green, suffused with black and marked with PalesbYOWN: J. sss tunestoaasontssaceee toss owe eR enamored ee cecaaeeee atrovirens, ©. Fore wing black-brow! «occ. sccssc sre cnetee cers schon cenaeeeeeae venalba. 1059. Neurois nigroviridis. Diphtera nigroviridis, Wk. xxxii. 615 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 195. Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; palpi blackish ; pectus black-brown and grey; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore wing silvery white, thickly irrorated with bronze-green, the terminal area reddish brown; a slight subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side ; orbicular and reniform bronze-green with white annuli defined by black, both constricted at middle, the oblique waved medial line passing between them; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then almost erect ; the subterminal line excurved below costa and at middle and with some dentate black marks before it, elongate below costa and in discal fold; a terminal series of small black lunules with some blue-white before them towards costa ; cilia brown, their tips white intersected with brown. Hind wing fuscous NEUROIS. 611 brown with a cupreous tinge ; cilia whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing with the stigmata whitish; hind wing irrorated with white except towards termen ; a curved postmedial line. Fig. 108.—Newrois nigroviridis, 3. }. Hab. Stxuim (Atkinson, Moller), 5 $,3 2, type. Hwp. 42-50 millim. 1060. Neurois atrovirens. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 20.) Diphtera atrovirens, Wik. xxxti. 614 (1865); Hampsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 195. Head and thorax black, mixed with white and a few ochreous- brown scales ; tegule and patagia edged with white; tarsi ringed with ochreous ; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore wing dark sap-green largely suffused with black ; a white spot at base of median nervure; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold defined by cinnamon-brown on outer side ; an oblique waved antemedial line angled outwards below costa and defined on inner side by cinnamon-brown, connected by a streak below median nerynre with the brown beyond subbasal line ; orbi- cular and reniform brown with white annuli, the former A-shaped, open below, the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; veins 1, 2,3 with pale streaks on median area ; postmedial line highly dentate, produced to white points on the veins and defined by pale brown on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line excurved at veins 7, 6 and middle, incurved at discal and submedian folds, with some dentate black marks before it and the area beyond it browner ; a terminal series of small black lunules and white points on the veins ; cilia brown, their tips white intersected with brown. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside with the stigmata of fore wing whitish ; hind wing irrorated with white except on the terminal area, a dark brown discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Stxura (Atkinson, Russel], Moller), 11 2,52, type; Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 9. Hvp. 48 millim. ZR2 612 * NOCTUIDZ. 1061. Neurois renalba. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 21.) Mamestra renalba, Moore, Lep, Atk. p. 111 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p- 195. @. Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with white ; fore tibise and tarsi with ochreous bands; pectus and mid and hind legs mostly grey ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface greyish. Fore wing black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined with grey on outer side; the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved and defined by grey on inner side, the area between it and the sub- basal line suffused with black; orbicular small, defined with black and sometimes with some white in its lower part, placed on a diffused medial line ; reniform defined by black, constricted at middle and almost filled in with white or with white points round it; a waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then inecurved; the subterminal line excurved below costa and at middle and incurved in discai and submedian folds, with a series of dentate black marks before it, the area beyond it somewhat paler; a terminal black line interrupted by white points at the veins; cilia brown with darker line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards costa; the cilia ochreous with brown line through them. Underside of fore wing with the reniform white; hind wing white with discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal fuscous band. Hab, Stxutm, Kurseong (C. Swinhoe), 7000 ft. (Atkinson), 4 © type. Ep. 38 millim. Genus EUROIS. Type. Hhirorsvetiuibn yw Vierzs mospeilis (G2) p-eeckee tees eeeepe a ecaeeneee eee prasina. Aplecta, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 217 (1838) ............ prasind. Matuta, Grote, Can. Hnt. vi. p. 116 (1874) .......2-2..2-2.02..000- tenebrifera. Adelphagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 88 (1890) ... stel/aris. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, porrect, with some hair in front ; eyes large, rounded ; frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales and with spreading crests on pro- and metathorax; fore tibix fringed with hair, mid and hind tibis spined. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, '7 from upper angle. Secr. I. (Matuta). Antenne of male bipectinate, the apical part serrate. A. Fore wing with the lines strongly marked with black at costa. a. Fore wing dark, strongly irrorated with black ............... youngi. b, Fore wing paler and less irrorated with black............... elimata. B. Fore wing with the lines not marked with black at costa... tenebrifera. EUROIS, 613 *1062. Eurois youngi. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 22.) Semiophora youngti, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 29 (1902). Q. Carneous grey to fuscous brown, irrorated with black or with dark suffusion, the male redder; palpi blackish at sides, their tips and the frons grey; antenne of male with long slender yellowish branches ; tegule rufous or brown at base, with dark or black medial line and greyish tips; patagia irrorated with grey; crests grey. Fore wing with the markings well-defined ; subbasal line dentate, black defined by grey on outer side, the area before it irrorated with grey ; antemedial line double, filled in with grey, more or less interrupted, erect or slightly curved, somewhat excurved in interspaces, some grey irroration on costal area before it; claviform obsolete; orbicular rather large, somewhat oblique, elliptical, with yellowish or grey annulus; reniform irrorated with grey, with yellowish annulus or entirely yellowish; postmedial line double, the inner line black, lunulate, the outer fuscous, even, filled in with grey, intersected by black at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique or slightly incurved ; sub- terminal line yellowish or grey, sometimes punctiform, irregular, defined on inner side by dark shading, the area beyond it usually paler ; a terminal series of dark lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a reddish tinge in male, especially on the cilia; the underside rosy grey to reddish, with dentate irroration, the base paler. Hab, Canapa, Ontario, Ottawa, Mer Bleue (C. H. Young) in Coll. Lyman. wp. 32-37 millim. - 1063. Eurois elimata. Noctua elimata, Guen. Noct. i. p. 333 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p- 61. Ammoconia badicollis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci, i, p. 136, pl. 4. f. 18 (1875). Agrotis dilucida, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. xxvii. p. 55 (1875). Agrotis janualis, Grote, Bull. Geol, Sury. iv. p. 169 (1878). Head and tegule rufous, thorax purple-brown irrorated with grey, or head and thorax uniform, or vertex of head whitish, the tegule often with black band near extremity ;_ palpi black-brown, whitish Fig. 109.—Lurois elimata, 3. +. at tips; pectus and legs purple-brown irrorated with grey ; abdomen reddish brown, rufous towards extremity. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with dark red-brown; a brown subbasal line defined by grey on outer side, acutely angled outwards below costa and ending 614 NOCTUIDAE. at vein 1; a brown antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, acutely angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and excurved below cell; orbicular and reniform grey, defined by black, the former rather oblique, elliptical, and with a black streak below it from antemedial line to the reniform; the postmedial line strongly bent ontwards below costa, then dentate and produced to points on the veins, excurved to vein 4,then incurved, defined by grey on outer side, and stronger at costa as also are the antemedial and subbasal lines ; an indistinct subterminal line defined by grey on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, aslight terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia grey at tips. Underside of both wings with indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. badicollis. Fore wing greyer, irrorated with black and sometimes tinged with ferruginous; the black markings strong, the black sometimes filling end of cell; a small black-edged clavi- form stigma. Ab. 2. janualis. Like typical form, but without the black streak in the cell. Hab. Canapa, Rentrew Co., 1 ¢,1 9; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Abingdon (Bates), 1 6,2 2, New York, 4 56,4 9, type and type janualis, Washington D.C., Virginia, 1 , Colorado (Cockerell), 1 9 . Exp. 40-44 millim. 1064, Eurois tenebrifera. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 23.) Hadena tenebrifera, Wik. xxxiii. 727 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 62. Matuta catherina, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 116 (1874). Agrotis manifestolabes, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874). Head and thorax rufous, the scales tipped with grey ; palpi black, tipped with white; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen pale whitish brown, the ventral surface dark ferruginous. Fore wing ferruginous with some dark irroration; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to vein 1; traces of an indistinct slightly curved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, defined by an irroration of white scales on the ground-colour, the former oblique, elliptical ; traces of a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; traces of a sinuous subterminal line; some terminal dark points. Hind wing pale reddish brown; the underside with discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canava (Norman), 1 9; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, Massachusetts, Cambridge (Morrison), 1 ¢, type manifestolabes. Exp. 36 millim. Sect. IT. (Zurois). Antenne of male ciliated. A. Fore wing not tinged with green. a. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell ........ indeterminata. 6, Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a, Tegule white with dark tips.....:.......s:scssseceerseses stellaris. EUROIS. 615 6°. Tegule pale rufous with dark tips ................ee00 quarta. ere Meg ulss brownl and black sa.00v 2. +4501 -sasousesessen-setdens apposita. B. Fore wing tinged with green. a. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous ............ prasind. >. Hind wing bluish black, the cilia pure white ............ virens. 1065. Eurois indeterminata. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 24.) Aye, indeterminata, Wk. xxxiii. 750 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. vl. Agrotis innotabilis, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. xxvi. p. 202 (1874). Agrotis washingtoniensis, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 259 (1881). Head and thorax grey-brown or purple-brown, some of the scales tipped with white; palpi black, whitish at tips; frons blackish ; tegule white, with the terminal half black ; tarsi blackish, ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface brown irro- rated with white. Fore wing reddish brown, more or less completely suffused with fuscous; a black streak below base of cell; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double oblique dentate antemedial line ; claviform outlined with black; orbicular oblique, elliptical, with grey centre and pale annulus; reniform cream- coloured, the centre defined by a reddish-brown line, the cell filled in with black before and between the stigmata ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, emitting a dentate -like mark to the claviform and streaks on each side of vein 1 to the ante- medial line; a subterminal series of small, dentate, black and white marks ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous brown, somewhat paler towards base; cilia pale, with a brown line through them; underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. Ab. 1. innotabilis. Fore wing with the orbicular more U-like, open above, the postmedial line not connected with claviform and antemedial line. Hab. Cananva, Vancouver I.,1 9 type; U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 3, 29, type washingtoniensis, California, Sanzalito, 1 Q type mnotabilis. Hxp. 36 millim. 1066. Eurois stellaris. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 25.) Agrotis stellaris, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 153 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 57. Q. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with purple-brown and dark brown; tegule ochreous white, with some scales at base and the tips purple-brown. Fore wing purplish grey, slightly suffused with vinous red and irrorated with black; a curved sub- basal black line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique sinuous antemedial line; orbicular and reniform ochreous white defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, and with some grey at centre, the latter with some black on its lower part and with some black suffusion between and beyond them; a sinuous medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate and produced to 616 NOCIUIDA. points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line whitish, obscurely dentate with some black suffusion on its inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown; traces of a diffused subterminal line; a sinuous terminal line ; underside pale, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous post- medial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 9 type, Nevada. Exp. 38 millim. 1067. Eurois quarta. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 26.) Agrotis quarta, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 258 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 57. Q. Head grey-brown; palpi, antenne, and tegule pale rufous, the last dark brown at tips; thorax purplish brown; pectus and legs pale purplish red, the latter irrorated with white and with the tarsi brownish; abdomen grey-brown, with the hair at sides and anal tuft purplish red. Fore wing purplish grey-brown ; an indis- tinct subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a waved antemedial line; orbicular rounded, with cream-coloured annulus on lower half and slight black outline ; reniform cream-coloured suffused with fiery red, its centre and outer edge slightly defined by black, and with slight fuscous suffusion in the cell between the stigmata; the post- medial line indistinct and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an interrupted whitish subterminal line with black points on its inner edge, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown, suffused with fuscous towards termen; the cilia pale, with a brown line through them; underside whitish irrorated with pale brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and sinuous brown postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 1 2 type. wp. 40 millim. 1068. Eurois apposita. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 27.) Agrotis apposita, Grote, Bull, U.S. Geol. Sury. iv. p. 170 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 58. Q. Head and thorax grey-brown or dull reddish brown largely mixed with black; abdomen grey-brown strongly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing dull reddish brown suffused with fuscous; an indistinct double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique double, waved antemedial line; the area from the inner antemedial line to the outer postmedial line pale rufous with a diffused medial dark shade; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined with fuscous, with some red scales on them, the former rounded, the latter with some black in its lower part; a pale waved subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, some pale points before it on the blackish costal area; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside _ EUROIS. 614 paler thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Canava, Vancouver I., 1 2 type; U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 2, Colorado, California. xp. 40 millim. 1069. Eurois prasina. Noctua prasina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins, 11. p- 169 (1787); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. Dean Moats herbida, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 76, 505; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 263; Curt. Brit. Ent. pl. 248; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 30, pl. 27. f. 3; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. p. 395, pl. 97. f. 3. Noctua egregia, Esp. Schmett. pl. 119. f. 7 (1792). Noctua jaspidea, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 440 (1793). Noctua mixta, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 187 (1809). Polyphenis herbacea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 73 (1852). Agrotis albimacula, Hormuz. Ent. Nachr. 1894, p. 53. Head whitish and green; palpi black, white at tips; thorax dark or pale red-brown mixed with green, white, and black scales ; abdomen grey-brown or-whitish brown. Fore wing purple-brown, grey-brown, or rarely whitish with diffused yellow-green fasciz on costa, in discal fold, below the cell and vein 2, and on inner margin; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 filled in Fig. 110.—Eurots prasina, g. +. with white, a similar oblique antemedial line filled in with green on inner area; Claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black and with greyish annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with large whitish patch beyond it before the postmedial line, which is double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; some white points on apical part of costa; a subterminal series of dentate green marks, angled outwards at vein 7, with some black before it at costa and dentate black marks below costa and at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia intersected with fuscous. Hind wing dark or pale red-brown; the cilia yellowish white; the underside with dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line. Hab. Canava (Norman), 2 6; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly, 23,29, New York,1¢,19, Iowa, Colorado; Brirain; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Swrrzertanp, Frey Coll.; Ivaty; Scanpr- 618 NOCTUIDA. NAVIA; Russta, Livonia, Urals; Armenia; C. Asta, Kuldja,1 ¢, 1 Q; Sterna; Amur; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer),2 9. Exp. 46-54 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 108; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 104, pl. 149. f. 1. Violet-brown, with double series of darker blotches above ; dorsal line pale; spiracular line pale, dark-edged above; head pale reddish brown, with dark markings. Food-plants: Rwmea, birch, Rubus, ete. 1070. Eurois virens. Eurots virens, Butl. A. M. N.H. (5) i. p. 194 (1878); id. Ill. Het. iii. pl. 45. f.5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 231; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. Head, tegule, and patagia bright yellow-green; palpi black at sides, pale at tips; antenne black, tegule tipped with black and white, patagia edged with black and white above; thorax rufous, the scales tipped with grey; pectus and abdomen blue-grey; legs black, the fore tibize rufous, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing slate-grey, the costal area and streaks in the interspaces bright yellow-green, the terminal area with the streaks less developed or absent ; a double black subbasal line filled in with green from costa to submedian fold ; a similar antemedial line angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold and more strongly above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform large, with slate-coloured centres defined by black and purple-red and pale annuli defined by black, the former somewhat oblique, oblong; the postmedial line double, dentate, black filled in with green, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; the subterminal line represented by a series of green and black dentate marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with stronger dentate black marks on its inner side below costa and above veins 5 and 4; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the basal two-thirds suffused with blue-grey ; the cilia pure white. Hab, Amcrtand, Ussuri; Japan, Yezo(Pryer), 1 g,12, Hakodaté (Whitely), 1 3 type; Cora, Gensan (Leech), 1 6; W. Cutna, Chang-yang (Pratt) 1 ¢, 1 9; N.W. Huimatayas, Thundiani (Yerbury), 1 $, Simla (Harford), 1 3, Dalhousie, 1 2, Dharmsila (Hocking), 1 ¢,2 2. Keep. 70 millim. Subsp. 1. magnifica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 127 (1882). Fore wing with the inner area and termen suffused with blood-red. Hab. Stxuim (Pilcher), 1 3,2 9, type. Genus NZENIA. Tepe Nenia, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. i. p. 165 (1829) ............eceee typica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, produced to a long point at extremity, the 3rd long, naked; frons with tuft of hair; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with large spreading crests; fore tibie fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiz spined; abdomen dorsally flattened, clothed with rough hair at base of dorsum and with lateral N@ZNIA. 619 tufts of hair. Fore wing short and broad; the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the termen crenulate and somewhat excised at discal fold. A. Fore wing with the veins streaked with white .................. ty pica. B. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white ............ contaminata. 1071. Nenia typica. Noctua typica, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 518 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 173. ff. 1-4; Dup. Lép. Fr. vi. pl. 90. f. 1; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p- 166; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Noctua excusa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 197. ff. 1-38 (1786). Noctua venosa, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 61 (1827). Nenia issyka, Ping. Iris, xiii. p. 119 (1900). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the tegule and patagia with a few blackish scales at edges; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with white; the veins streaked with white; a double subbasal line filled in with whitish from costa to submedian fold and angled outwards below costa; a Big. 111 —Nenia typica, $. +. similar minutely waved oblique antemedial line angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined by black or represented by some black scales ; orbicular and reni- form with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former small or well-developed, the latter large, often with black suffusion in the cell between them and beyond the reniform ; the postmedial line defined by white on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line white, with dentate black marks on its inner side, large between veins 4 and 6, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with a dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown; a dark 620 NOCTUIDE. terminal line interrupted by minute white streaks at the veins; cilia white at tips; the underside white irrorated with dark brown, a fuscous discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some grey on termen of both wings. Ab. 1. issyca. Redder, the termen less waved.—Issyk-kul. Hab, Brrrain; France; Guruany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Swirzer- LAND; Spain; Iraty; 8. Russta; ARMENIA; BrrHynra ; W. SIBERIA ; W. Turkestan, Altai, Issyk-kul; E. Siprrta. wp. 42-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 104; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 246, pl. 217. f. 1. Pale greyish ochreous, brown-speckled ; subdorsal black marks on somites 11, 12, the latter confluent behind; lateral series of indistinct pale oblique marks: spiracular line pale, black-edged above; ventral surface yellower; head greyish ochreous marked with brown. Food-plants: Rumewx, Sonchus, apple, ete. 8-4. 1072. Nenia contaminata. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 28.) Graphiphora contaminata, Wk. xxxiii. 710 (1865); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides, the tarsi blackish with pale bands ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface pale brown irrorated with black. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with black ; adouble, slightly waved, subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold : a double, waved, somewhat oblique antemedial line; claviform sometimes slightly detined by black ; orbicular and reniform with their centres defined by brown and defined by black, the former round, the latter large, the cell between them suffused with black; postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed; the subterminal line minutely waved, excurved at vein 7 and middle, and with dentate black marks on its inner side below costa and above and below vein 9; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia pale ochreous with brownish spots; the underside greyer irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line, some grey on termen of both wings. Hab. Amor; Usapri; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Maries, Pryer), 5g, 8 Q, type, Tsu-shima (Holst), 1 9, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 9; Cuina, Shanghai, 1 ¢, 2 2, Kiukiang (Pratt),3 9. Eup. 40-50 millim. Genus EPILECTA. Type. Hpilectas Hubs VierZaps 220 (S21) meeceeeecstensnceoseeeetr sere linogrisea. Hiria, Dup. Cat. Méth. p. 145 (1844), nee Hyria, Lam. Moll. LoS ee eae ans Perea e 3 Serre ihc Onna ec eae Ac eoadanAGAboAboe linogrisea. Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, moderately scaled in front and with slight pointed tuft at extremity, the 5rd joint long, naked, and porrect ; frons smooth, with ridges of scales above and between antenne ; eyes large; antenne of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with scales, prothorax with spreading crest, a double dorsal ridge-like crest ; mid EPILECTA. 621 and hind tibiz spined; abdomen dorsally flattened. Fore wing narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. ACES E LNT pvyid PAOLATIO Cpa ecsi en stclstser ce otc tte oe vice Sasa ee eke neee linogrised. iBall claw cp palenyell Owaassesccuatonstacca: sot nece oe semen mae kosars accipiter. 1073. Epilecta linogrisea. Noctua linogrisea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 79 (1775); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 101, 531; Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 108. f. 3; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p- 149, pl. 57. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Agrotis lutosa, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135 (1901). Head and thorax pale rufous; palpi whitish below and at extremity ; frons with dark bar; antenne dark; tegule dark brown at base, some white before the medial dark line, the terminal part pale rufous with dark tips; patagia pale grey-brown; legs blackish irrorated with white, and the tibiz and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen rufous and fuscous brown. Fore wing white to the sub- terminal line, irrorated and suffused with fuscous towards costa, and the inner area from before medial line beyond the cell extending up 1 T° to vein 6 strongly suffused with purple; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique double, waved, ante- medial line, below the cell becoming treble and with a small black spot on its outer edge representing the claviform ; orbicular and reniform outlined with black and with fuscous centres, the former small, round, the latter well-developed and with dentate medial shade from it to inner margin; a minutely dentate postmedial double line oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; an irregu- larly waved subterminal line, with fuscous patch with two white point on it on its inner side at costa and produced to short streaks on veins 5,8; the terminal area bright rufous; a dark waved terminal line ; cilia fuscous brown with a whitish line through them. Hind wing orange, with black-brown terminal band with waved inner edge, rather broad at costa, narrowing to a point at tornus ; cilia orange, with a fuscous line through them; the underside with the costal area purplish, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line indistinct except towards costa. Ab. 1. lutosa. Fore wing more uniform, suffused with yellow- grey instead of white.—Spain, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria. 622 NOCTUIDAE. Hab. France; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Sparn; GReEcE; ScanDINAVIA; ARMENIA; Asta Minor, Bithyina, Pontus; Syria. Keep. 40 millim. Larva. Hibn, Eur. Schmett., Raupen iv., Noct. ii. G. D. Purplish brown; diffused dorsal black patches on 1st four somites, the others with double dorsal line; lateral line dark on Ist four somites, then white with black lunules above it ; a sublateral series of oblique black streaks on a dark grey stripe. Food-plant, Primula acaulis. 1074. Epilecta accipiter. Spintherops accipiter, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 111. f. 29 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 189. 2. Head and tegule white, sometimes tinged with rufous ; palpi black except at tips; antenne black: thorax black or red- brown; pectus and legs black, the tibie and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface black irrorated with grey. Fore wing pale or deep purple-brown ; the basal and costal areas irrorated with grey-green and sometimes also vein 1 and the postmedial line; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double, waved, antemedial line; upper and outer edges of claviform defined by black; orbicular and reniform pale brown, defined by black with some grey-green on them, the cell before and between them black, the former nearly round, the latter large; a waved medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line dentate, produced to short streaks on the veins, sometimes double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an irregularly waved subterminal line; the terminal area paler with crenulate black terminal line. Hind wing yellow, with the costal area and a rather narrow terminal band fuscous, the latter narrowing to tornus; the underside with the costal area grey irrorated with black, crossed by a postmedial bar. Hab. N.W. Hiwatayas, Ladik, Pangi; Tiser, Yatung (Hobson), 29; Sixaur, Lwp. 46-48 millim. Genus TRIPHANA. Type. Triphena, Hubn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) ........-.ceesereceecesceeenes interjecta. Lampra, Hibn. Verz. p. 221 (1827) ..2...-2.-2-00eeeceermoseornonees fimbria. iHuschestsElubn. WerZza pace ll (LS21)) mccesennscccces seeceeeeascee: Jjanthina. Abagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 49 (1890) ......... erratica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair, produced to a point at extremity, the 3rd joint short, porrect, and slightly fringed with hair below ; frons smooth; eyes large; head and thorax clethed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading tufts ; tibia fringed with hairs above, the mid and hind tibize spined; abdomen dorsally flattened and fringed with hairs at sides. Fore wing with the margins subparallel, the apex rounded; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. TRIPHENA. 623 Sucr. I. (Abagrotis). Antenne of male serrate and fasciculate. *1075. Triphena erratica. Agrotis erratica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 41 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 60. 3. Dull ashen grey to brick-red; palpi blackish at sides; head and thorax pencilled with brown, the tegule whitish at tips. Fore wing irrorated with dark brown; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique slightly sinuous antemedial line; orbicular and reniform pale rufous with grey annuli, the former small, oblique, the latter with its lower end Fig. 113.—Triprena erratica, 3. 3+ filled in with blackish ; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold and below vein 4, with a series of dark points on the veins beyond it ; subterminal line whitish, defined by brown on inner side, slightly excurved at vein 7 and at middle ; traces of a terminal series of points; the inner margin and a fine line at base of cilia Iuteous; in the redder specimens the markings are almost obsolete. Hind wing pale grey-brown ; the cilia ochreous, white at tips; underside with dark discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. LZvp. 38 millim. Srcr, II. (Triphena). Antenne of male ciliated. A. Hind wing orange. a. Fore wing with black bar or spot on costal area before subterminal line. a), Hind wing with black discoidal lunule. a>, Fore wing with white patch beyond the TEMTULD) OPA anne egdoogooeondoososoonoacoUNSoDcusoonoNS efflorescens. 2, Fore wing without white patch beyond the POM OLIWse ep eens oilete eislelele sions eia= ssteleiets-latlelominlo/lstee semiherbida. }, Hind wing without black discoidal lunule ...... jimbria. }. Fore wing without black bar or spot on costal area before subterminal line. a. Tegule white except at tips ..........++ SCaOSHESEEE janthina. DY, Tegulee concolorous .......0-seeseeseeeereeeeeenenees énterjecta, %. Hind wing not orange. a. Head and tegule dark red-brown, contrasting. a, Pectus and ventral surface of abdomen tinged WATE = DO Wilton emcimedeaceciele site neieisesasminsincs' . rufipectus. }', Pectus and yentral surface of abdomen not tinged with red-brown .........scsssseeeseneenserees brunneicollis. 624 - NOCTUIDZ. 6, Head and tegule not dark red-brown. a’, Tegulz black at base, pale at tips.................. b', Tegulee with the tips black or rufous, contrasting. a, Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a>. Fore wing with the cell black between the stigmata. a‘. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, OPEN ADOVErscnasceascsuseqsoosseacessasecrres b*, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, Open ADOVE .....2..... ss sees ee eeeereeeeeeneeeee . Fore wing with the cell not black between the stigmata. a‘, Fore 1 wing with the orbicular V-shaped, open above. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line sinclowerentlate: (erncsescseseeceeeeete: o°. Fore wing with the’ postmedial line double, minutely waved. a°, Thorax and fore wing dark purple- bYrOWie, ioacr ae ees eae sateen ees a°. Thorax and fore wing pale rufous LO pUTplishvereyumscesceae dese ates b*, Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, OPCD AD OVE me ccctsccnas yassatae ate cacieckceree é?. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. a®, Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, OPCM ADO VE Gs. aee sence sloreiheseneeeleswceces econ: L°, Fore wing with the orbiecnlar rounded, indistinct. a‘, Fore wing with the costal area white to posimedialy line resesssccasseeeceee se seer tees b*, Fore wing with the costal area con- COLOLOUS Peinecas sane ceecencecsesaeunsendeceten ce c', Tegule with the tips concolorous. a*, Fore wing with the costal area pale to post- medial line. a, Fore wing with the costal area white ...... °, Fore wing with the costal area pale rufous. b°. Fore wing with the costal area concolorous. a®. Fore wing with the costal half of medial area suffused with black ................0:2 b°, Fore wing with the cell black between the stigmata. a‘. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, OPeNVAbOvevcncscescsensesadasacaeaaiaacsteecees pre wing with the orbicular rounded. . Fore wing blackish, the stigmata Ti/WUHNS) ce ccosnsadocodsboganscasadéonosoDobeEnoS }°, Fore wing and stigmata grey-brown... ce, Fore wing with the cell not black between the stigmata. a+, Kore wing with the terminal area paler than postmedial area. a’. Fore wing with the ground-colour greyish. a. Fore wing with the lines not marked by black points at costa. xp. 30-36 millimi sy 2. ..c.s.n-soeeseseeeenes b°, Fore wing with the lines marked by black points at costa. Hp. 40 renplDbittaS) “Amon sconcesbontbocosaoataanoation hero. formalis ab. facula. crenulata. costata. exsertistigiia. Jormalis ab. confusa. formalis. vittifrons, carisstind. bimarginalis. totonaca. wndosa, formalis ab. mirabilis. discoidalis. placida. variata. TRIPH ENA. 625, 6°. Fore wing with the ground-colour rufous to dark brown. a°. Fore wing with the lines double. a’, Fore wing broad. Exp. 40-44 POULIN necacaucrscac stesso eae ce alternata. 67, Fore wing narrow. Exp, 32-88 mii,“ ctnen sagen sonsaetsn coneeeeceas anchoceiloides. b°. Fore wing with the lines single. Joka, ah) sami bien, Sensooussaconeraceeccos: minimalis. 6+, Fore wing with the terminal area con- colorous with postmedial area. a. Fore wing not strongly irrorated with fuscous. a°, Fore wing with orbicular V-shaped, OPEMFADOVE ss ce cwacssmsnoaseyeesecet cress formalis ab. b°. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded. a’. Fore wing pale rufous ............ cupidissina. 67, Fore wing bright rufous............ belfrage?. c7, Fore wing red-brown to grey- DEO WI /eosuinte cn scessdiecdaceestesares: trigona. da’, Fore wing blackish brown......... inelegans. &. Fore wing strongly irrorated with HUSCOUS Macnee chase secs esses onentcer ss letula, 1076. Triphena efflorescens. Triphenopsis efflorescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 861 (1879); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. Triphena jankowskii, Oberth, Et. Ent. x. p. 20, pl. 2. f. 10 (1884). Head and thorax black, rufous, green, and white mixed ; palpi black, white at extremity; legs dark brown and white, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing purple-brown, suffused with moss-green on costal and submedian areas to postmedial line and on inner margin to ante- medial line; indistinct double, waved, subbasal and antemedial lines; clayviform represented by black points at its origin and extremity ; orbicular and reniform open aboye and below, defined at sides by green and black lines and with the cell before and between them black, a diffused white patch beyond the reniform ; postmedial line double, dentate, produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; an irregularly waved pale subterminal line defined by blackish on each side and with black patch before it at costa, with two white points on it and short black streak below it; a crenulate black terminal line. Hind wing orange, with the costal area, fascizee below cell and on inner area, a large discoidal lunule, and broad terminal band black; the cilia orange. Underside of fore wing ochreous, largely suffused with black; hind wing with the costal area ochreous irrorated with brown, a black streak in cell and the fascie below cell and on inner area narrow. Hab. Amurtanpd, Ussuri; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer, Manley), 24,12, Tokio (Maries), 1 9, Myanoshita (Yerbury), 1 3, Oiwake (Pryer),2 3,12. wp. 50 millim. VOL. IV. 25 626 NOCTUID®. 1077. Triphena semiherbida. Triphena semiherbida, Wk, xi. 743 (1857) ; Butl. Tl. Het. vi. pl. 110. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 193. Epilecta decorata, Butl, A. M. N, H. (5) iv. p. 861 (1879). Head and tegule sap-green, frons whitish ; palpi black, white at extremity ; antenne black; thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tibiz and tarsi banded with white; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore wing red-brown, suffused with sap-green on basal and costal areas, in submedian fold, and on postmedial line; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to vein 1, followed by a black point in cell ; a double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with grey centres and annuli and defined by black on inner and outer sides, the former round, the latter well developed; a double, waved, postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved; a minutely waved greyish subterminal line, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 3 and with a short black streak before it below costa; a crenulate black terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal, inner, and costal areas suffused with brown; a large black discoidal lunule ; a broad black terminal band expanding on apical area and angled inwards below vein 2; the termen irregularly and cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing with the inner area yellow, the costal and terminal areas grey ; hind wing with the costal area and termen grey. Hab. Javan, Yokohama (Pryer),1 3,2 2 type, Oiwake (Pryer), 23,1 9, Toriitoge (Lewis), 1 9; W. Cuina, Omei-shan, 1 g, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 ¢; N.W. Hiatayas, Kulu, Sultanpore (Young), 1 9, (Reid) 1 ¢ type, Simla (Harford), 2 g, Dharmsila (Hocking), 36, 19; Nupat, 19; Srxam (lidderdale), 2 ¢. Eep,. 44-50 millim. 1078. Triphena fimbria. Noctua fimbria, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 842 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. Eur. iv. pl. 103. f. 1; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 102; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii, p. 828; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. pl. 60. ff. 1,2; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 105; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Phalena domiduca, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 404 (1767). Noctua solani, Faby. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1787). Head and thorax buff, rufous or greenish; palpi and antennz brown or partly white; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with brown and the tarsi ringed with brown; abdomen deep orange, the ventral surface white, rufous at extremity. Fore wing buff, rufous, or greenish, with more or less pale or white suffusion on medial and subterminal areas towards costa ; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique slightly curved antemedial line, expanding at costa and defined by whitish on inner side towards costa; orbicular and reniform with white annuli approximated or touching at lower extremities ; the postmedial line double, filied in with white, oblique, and with a slight inward curve towards costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a whitish subterminal line TRIPH ENA. 627 angled outwards at vein 7, then sinuous, with a rufous or greenish patch with two white points on it on its inner side at costa and a black spot below costa. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal band very broad at costa, narrowing to tornus; the cilia orange. Underside with the costal area of both wings tinged with white towards apex. Hab. Brrrain; France; Germany, Zeller Coll., Silesia, Frey Coll. ; Srotny, Zeller Coll.; Anerprs ; Greece (Merlin) ; SCANDINAVIA; Armenta; Asta Minor. Hvp. 50-56 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 105; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 7, pl. 187. f. 2. Reddish ochreous, brown-dotted, paler laterally ; dorsal line obscurely pale; a dark bar on somite 12 edged with pale behind ; spiracles pale on dark spots; head brown, with dark reticulations. Food-plants : birch, hawthorn, Salix, Rumew, ete. 9-5, 1079. Triphena janthina. Noctua janthina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 104. ff. 4, 5; Hiibo. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 100; Herr Schiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 328; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 160, pl. 59; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 106; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Triphena rufa, Tutt, Brit. Noct. ii. p. 92; Ter. Haar Tyds, 1896, Ver. p- 93, pl. i. f. 3. Agrotis latimarginata, Réber. Ent. Nachr. 1900, p. 204. Head and base of tegule creamy white, the rest of thorax brown pencilled with grey ; palpi blackish at tips; antenne brown above; pectus and legs creamy white, the tarsi with blackish bands; abdomen black-brown, the hair at sides and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing dark brown, thickly irrorated with purplish grey, more ochreous grey on inner medial area; an indistinct antemedial line slightly bent inwards to costa, where there is a dark point; orbicular and reniform moderate with, often in- complete, white annuli, the former oblique, the latter rather figure- of-8-shaped; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved and produced to slight streaks on the veins; an indistinct subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a rufous patch before it at costa with three pale points on it ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal area suffused with brown, on inner area extending to the terminal black band, which expands on costal area and has its inner edge excised at middle; the termen and cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing fuscous black, with the costal and terminal areas pale; hind wing with the costal area pale rufous. Ab. 1. rufa. Fore wing with the ground-colour bright rufous. Ab. 2. latimarginata. Smaller and darker, and with broader terminal band to hind wing.—Hartz Mts. Hab. Brirary; France; Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Siciny; Aneiers; Greece (Merlin); Russra, Livonia; ARMENIA ; Asta Minor. wp. 34-46 millim. 628 _ NOCTUIDZ. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 10, pl. 138. f. 1. Pale greenish or ochreous, black-dotted ; dorsal line pale, partly edged with short dark marks; two blackish spots on somite 12; sometimes a lateral series of oblique darker marks; spiracular line pale; head pale with dark markings. Food-plants : Primula, Stellaria, Rubus, etc. 9-5. 1080. Triphena interjecta. Noctua interjecta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pl. 23. f. 107 (1827) ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 328 ; Godt. Lép. Fr. v. p. 154, pl. 59. f. 1; Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 105.6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Head and thorax yellow-brown or red-brown; palpi and legs grey-brown irrorated with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and vertral surface pinkish. Fore wing yellow-brown or reddish brown, the markings often almost obsolete ; double, waved, subbasal and ante- medial lines, the latter excurved below cell; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by fuscous ; an indistinct medial shade; the post- medial line waved, oblique towards costa, excurved at median \ t Fig. 114.—Triphena interjecta, 3. }. nervules, then incurved, and with some dark points beyond it on the veins; a diffused subterminal shade slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below’'vein 4; a terminal line and line through the cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the cell, costal and inner areas suffused with fuscous brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; a broad black terminal band expanding on apical area and with sinuous inner edge ; the termen and cilia yellow, with some fuscous on the latter towards apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with the costal and terminal areas brownish ochreous; hind wing with the costal area pinkish. _ Hab. Brivarn ; France; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Huneary, Frey Coll.; Spary; Corstca; Irany; Datmarra. Lwp. 36 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 18, pl. 188. f. 2. Pale ochreous, dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, brown-edged ; spiracular line pale; dots black;"head pale ochreous with dark markings. Food-plants: grasses, Humes, Primula, ete, 9-5 TRIPH ENA. 629 1081, Triphena rufipectus. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 29.) Agrotis rufipectus, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 165 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 51. Head and tegule dark red-brown, the latter edged with white ; thorax purplish grey ; abdomen grey, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface reddish brown. Fore wing purplish grey, sparsely irrorated with dark brown scales; a subbasal blackish line from costa to submedian fold; an irregularly waved antemedial line with point in cell -before.it; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former semicircular, open above, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity and oblique medial shade from it to inner margin; the postmedial line minutely waved and with some points on the veins beyond it, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line with brownish shade on its inner side, angled outwards at veins 7 and 3, then incurved. Hind wing pale grey slightly irrorated with brown and the veins tinged with brown; the terminal area suffused with fuscous in female; the underside with distinct discoidal line and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Canapa, Renfrew Co., 2 2 , Br. Columbia ; U.S.A., Northern and Hastern States, New York (Hill), 1 ¢, 1 9, Oregon, Colorado (Walsingham), 1 2, California, Los Angeles. vp. 38-42 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 316 (1899), Head 1°5 millim., pale, heavily mottled with dark brown, forming a continuous band closely bordering the clypeus from vertex to mouth. Joint 12 rather distinctly enlarged. Body not heavily mottled with light and dark brown dottings, mixed with greenish laterally, forming dark obscure subdorsal oblique streaks and a distinct blotch on jot 13 anteriorly. All the ordinary lines lost except the dorsal, which is narrow, straight, sordid white, broken only in the incisures, sometimes edged with blackish there. Thoracic feet pale ; spiracles dark. Feeds on grass.—H. G. D. 1082. Triphena brunneicollis. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 30.) Noctua brunneicollis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii, p. 524, pl. 5. f.5 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 51. Head and tegule dark red-brown, the latter becoming black- brown at extremities; thorax grey or pale rufous pencilled with brown and with a few black scales; abdomen ochreous white, the anal tuft fulvous, the ventral surface irrorated with rufous. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly suffused with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, where there is a small black spot on its outer edge ; a double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round or elliptical ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to dark points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, and with brown 630 NOCTUID®, patch on its inner side at costa. Hind wing pale yellowish, irrorated with brown except towards base and inner margin, and the veins tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, distinct on costal area, and traces of a subterminal line. Hab, Canava; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, Massachusetts, Vermont, N. York, Evans Centre, 3 g, Albany, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas (Snow), 2 9, Colorado. wp, 38-44 millim. *1083, Triphena hero. Agrotis hero, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 288 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. Fuscous brown suffused with grey; tegule black at base, paler at extremities. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines dark, the former defined on inner side, the latter on outer by pale colour ; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli, the former some- what V-shaped, open above, and with a black spot in cell before it ; a distinct medial shade. Hind wing uniform dark brownish grey ; a small discoidal spot ; the underside brownish grey, with discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., Massachusetts. ap. 32 millim. This species is unknown to me. 1084, Triphena crenulata. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 31.) Agrotis crenulata, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus, x. p. 451 (1887) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56. ¢. Head dark brown mixed with black ; palpi black, whitish at tips; thorax deep red-brown; tegule with white medial line and black tips; prothoracie crest tipped with grey, metathoracic crest rufous ; legs blackish irrorated with grey ; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark reddish brown, the basal area strongly and the postmedial area slightly suffused with grey; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with striga beyond it at costa, and deep black streak below the cell to the double oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform small, defined by grey and black ; orbicular and reniform brown, irrorated with white and with pale annuli, the former rounded, open above, the cell before and between the stigmata deep black ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line brown, slightly irrorated with white, excurved at vein 7 and middle; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish, brown at base; the underside fuscous grey, the costal area grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, 1 ¢, Oregon, Portland, Utah, Nevada, 1 ¢, California. ap. 38 millim. TRIPH ENA. 631 Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 316 (1899). Head 3°3 millim., pale, reticulated with brown, the curved band from the vertex distinct below anda brown patch in the clypeus ; line upward from eye not more distinct than the other reticulations. Body brown, the ground-colour pale brown, finely striate, mottled with dark brown; dorsal line pale, narrow, nearly broken in the centres of the segments, edged with blackish brown in the incisures : subdorsal line more distinct, pale, narrow, extending over joints 3 to 12; oblique shades pale, but alternating anteriorly with somewhat wedge-shaped black patches that rest on the subdorsal line ; sides finely mottled, obscurely streaked, the substigmatal line broad but very faint, sharp-edged; spiracles black-rimmed. A general feeder.—H.G. D. 1085. Triphena costata. (Plate LX XVI. fig. 32.) Agrotis costata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 80 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 595. Agrotis binominalis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 451 (1887). ©. Head and thorax rufous; tegule black at tips; abdomen grey-brown, the sides and anal tuft rufous. Fore wing bright chestnut-brown ; the costal area whitish, tinged with rufous to the postmedial line; the orbicular and reniform white, with some rufous and fuscous at centre and defined by black, the former open, V-shaped, its inner arm produced to base as a sinuous black streak below the pale costal area; a rather faint waved antemedial line; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line only defined by fuscous suffusion on terminal area from below apex to above tornus. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside greyer, irrorated with brown; a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Br. Columbia, Vancouver, 1 @ type; U-.S.A., Washington Terr., California. Hwvp. 40 millim. The head and tegulze of type wanting. 1086. Triphena exsertistigma. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 1.) Agrotis OTIS Morr. Proc. Bost. Soe. N. H. xvii. p. 166 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 55. Agrotis obser vabilis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 144 (1875). Head black-brown mixed with grey; palpi black, white at extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints; tegule white, the extremities black ; thorax purple-brown, a few of the scales tipped with white ; legs black and grey. Fore wing dark grey suffused and irrorated with purplish black; the costal area pale to the postmedial line, the base of inner area pale; the subbasal line represented by double black strigee from costa and median nervure with a blackish mark beyond it below the cell; the antemedial line double, waved, oblique, filled in with grey, interrupted below costa and strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform elongate, outlined with 632 NOCTUID®, whitish ; orbicular and reniform fuscous defined by whitish, the former open V-shaped, its inner arm running back to antemedial line, the latter with pale. centre, the area in cell before and between the stigmata and below the orbicular golden-brown or black-brown; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, filled in with grey, and with series of black points on the veins beyond it; the subterminal line pale defined by black on inner side and with diffused blackish patch at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; the terminal area paler grey ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish with brown line through them; the underside grey irrorated with brown ; a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, U.S.A., California, Yosemite Valley, 1 ¢, 1 9, type observabilis. Exp., 3 34, 2 38 millim. 1087. Triphena confusa. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2.) Agrotis exsertistigma, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 79, pl. 4. f. 8 (1876), nee Morr. Agrotis confusa, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 452 (1887); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 57. 3. Head rufous and white ; tegule white, with two pale brown bands irrorated with black, the tips deep red-brown ; thorax bright rufous ; abdomen fuscous grey; the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing deep rufous, the costal area ochreous to the postmedial line ; the basal area with some black suffusion ; a small subbasal black spot below cell, with curved ochreous fascia below it defined by black below to the double oblique waved antemedial line filled in with ochreous; claviform well developed, defined by whitish; orbicular and reniform brownish, with ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, open above; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, with a series of black points on the outer line, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4; some pale points on costa towards apex; subterminal line greyish, slightly waved, defined by black suffusion on inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, the costal area pale rufous irrorated with brown; a small discoidal black spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Corvallis, 1 g. Hap. 42 millim. 1088. Triphena formalis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 3.) Agrotis formalis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 61 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 55. Agrotis facula, Grote, Bull, Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 82 (1876). Agrotis insularis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 82 (1876). Agrotis emarginata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iil. p. 82 (1876). Head grey and dark brown; tegule at base whitish, yellow- brown, red-brown, or purple-brown, the tegule with white medial TRIPH ENA, 633 line and usually black tips ; thorax with some of the scales some- times grey-tipped; abdomen fuscous or brown ; the ventral surface irrorated with grey. Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown, the costal area to postmedial line grey or ochreous, or in the redder specimens rufous ; the subbasal line double from costa to submedian fold, where there is a short black streak beyond it; a double obliquely waved antemedial line, more strongly exeurved above inner margin; claviform usually present, elongate and defined by whitish; orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, the former open Y-shaped, its inner arm running back to the antemedial line, the latter moderate, the cell before and below them and below the orbicular usually black ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with series of black points on the veins beyond it; the subterminal line greyish, defined on each side by fuscous, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with blackish patch before it at costa; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia whitish with brown line through them; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. A. Tegule black at tips. ' a, Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. Ab. 1. facula. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. b. formalis. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. B. Tegulee with the tips concolorous. Ab. 3. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black. Ab. 4. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. Hab. Canapa, Br. “Columbia, Vancouver, 1 2, type isularis ; U.S.A. , Washington Terr, (lv, Oregon, The Dales, 19, Nevada, 1 Or, California (Walsingham), Biigiael ion Sanzalito, 8. Joachim, 6 ¢, 2 2, type and types facula and emarginata. Exp. 36-38 millim. *1089. Triphena vittifrons. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 4.) Noctua vittifrons, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil. iii. p.527, pl. 5. f. 6 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. o4. Q. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with black-brown ; palpi whitish at tips; tegule whitish, pale rufous at tips; patagia fuscous ; thorax fuscous and whitish; abdomen fuscous and grey. Fore wing fuscous ; the costal area creamy white slightly irrorated with fuscous to beyond middle; orbicular and reniform indicated by slight creamy marks ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a slight terminal series of dark points; cilia with whitish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline white; the veins and terminal area slightly tinged with fuscous ;. the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab, U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Bruce), in U.S. Nat. Mus. wp, 34 millim. 634 NOCLUID®. 1090. Triphena carissima. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 5.) Agrotis carissima, Harv. Grote’s Check-List, 25 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 54. ¢. Head and thorax purple-red, a few of the scales tipped with white ; palpi black, whitish at tips; tegule black at extremities ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, greyish at base, tinged with purple at middle, and on ventral surface which is irrorated with white. Fore wing purple-red, irrorated and the terminal area tinged with fuscous; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved below costa; a double, waved, . antemedial line angled outwards below costa; the orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined with fuscous ; a double, waved, post- medial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; an indistinct pale subterminal line with some black points on its inner edge towards costa, and incurved at vein 2. Hind wing pale evenly suffused with brown; the cilia white at tips; the underside with smail discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, 1 ¢ type. Zp. 38 millim. *1091. Triphena bimarginalis. (Plate LXXVIL. fig. 6.) Agrotis bimarginalis, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 53 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 54. Head and thorax orange-brown to ferruginous; tegule greyish ; abdomen fuscous grey, the anal tuft orange-brown. Fore wing deep brown, irrorated with ferruginous and with blackish shading ; the costal area leather-brown or reddish yellow, black on postmedial area; the terminal area grey ; the antemedial line sinuous ; orbicular and reniform suffused with black; postmedial line even, slightly crenulate, with a series of points beyond it on the veins. Hind wing fuscous grey ; the underside fuscous, with discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico. wp. 35-36 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from type in Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. *1092. Triphena totonaca. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 7.) Noctua totonaca, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 226 (1894). 3. Head and base of tegule pale rufous, the vertex rather dark ; palpi at sides, spots at side of frons and on neck above black ; thorax deep chocolate-brown; pectus and legs rufous; abdomen grey- brown, the hair at sides and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing black-brown, the costal area pale tinged with rufous to the post- medial line; the subbasal line represented by a black point below costa, the indistinct antemedial line by a black point below costa, then angled outwards and waved ; the orbicular and reniform dark red-brown defined by black, the former minute, elongate, the cell filled in by black; the postmedial line minutely waved, excurved from cell to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line defined by TRIPH ENA. 635 the area beyond it being purplish grey irrorated with brown, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small dentate black spots. Hind wing pale suffused with brown, especially towards termen, the cilia pale with a brown line near base; the underside pale irrorated with brown, the costal area suffused with purple-red, a dark discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, type tT ¢ in Coll. Schaus. vp. 40 millim. 1093. Triphena undosa. Agrotis undosa, Leech, P. Z. 8. 1889, p. 501, pl. 1. f. 3. Head and thorax brown, more or less strongly suffused with grey and mixed with black, especially on head and tegule; abdomen brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with black, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing grey-brown, suffused in parts with dark brown; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double antemedial line slightly angled inwards in submedian fold and on vein 1; the medial area suffused with black from costa to median nervure, the inner area with some waved lines; claviform blackish and defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed, and with a series of points on the veins beyond it ; the subterminal line whitish, defined by fuscous suffusion before it and a black patch at costa, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal waved black line. Hind wing fuscous brown, blacker towards termen : the cilia pale yellowish; the underside greyish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line, the terminal area suffused with black. Hab. Javan (Pryer), 1 3 type, Oiwake (Leech), 1 9, Nikko (Leech), 1 9. Ewp. 40 millim. 1094, Triphena mirabilis. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 8.) Agrotis mirabilis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 39 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 54. 3d. Head and thorax black mixed with grey, the latter with flesh-pink dorsal fascia; shoulders with white points at origin of fore wing; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing black thickly irrorated with pale grey ; the subbasal line represented by some black scales below the cell; the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved, and acutely angled outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform yellowish white, the former small, the latter moderate; a black streak in the cell from the antemedial line to the reniform; the postmedial line very indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line, with diffused black patch on its inner side at costa, on which are some pale points; the terminal area somewhat greyer; a terminal 636 NOCTUID®. series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia grey with a brown line through them; underside with the costal area grey irrorated with black. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Snow), 1 3 type, New Mexico, Arizona. Exp. 36 millim. 1095, Triphena discoidalis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 9.) Agrotis discoidalis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 82, pl. 4. £. 9 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56. 2. Head and thorax ochreous brown, with a few black scales on patagia ; palpi black at sides, pale at tips; antenne blackish ; abdomen grey-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with black ; the costal area pale yellow-brown to the postmedial line; the sub- basal line black, curved from costa to submedian fold, defined by pale brown on outer side and with a blackish mark beyond it on costa; the antemedial line double, irregularly dentate, more strongly inwards on vein 1; claviform with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform greyish defined by black, the former small, elliptical, almost complete above, the latter incomplete below, the cell black before and between them; the postmedial line double, waved, bent outwards below costa, shghtly incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, the area between it and subterminal line suffused with fuscous, this line being minutely waved and slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, an indistinct discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line. Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, Portland, Nevada, California, Sierra Nevada, 1 2 type. vp, 36 millim. 1096. Triphena placida. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 10.) Agrotis placida, Grote, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N.Y. xi. p. 805 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 52. Head and thorax dark brown, irrorated with a few whitish scales or mixed with grey; palpi whitish at tips ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing dark brown or rufous or grey, suffused in parts with rufous or dark brown, and with some black irroration ; double, waved, subbasal and ante- medial lines ; orbicular and reniform with grey annuili defined by brown; a medial shade; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate and produced to slight points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line grey, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it paler or grey; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips; the underside with discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. TRIPH ENA. 637 Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co.,2 ¢; U.S.A., Maine, New York, Lewis Co., 1 ¢ type, Utah, Nevada, Colorado (Snow), 1 3,2 9, New Mexico, Arizona. wp. 30-36 millim. 1097. Triphena variata. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 11.) Agrotis variata, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 83, pl. 4. f. 12 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 53. Agrotis varix, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 85 (1876). Agrotis orbis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 83 (1876). Head and thorax dark red-brown, irrorated with a few grey scales ; palpi black, pale at tips; pectus, legs, and abdomen brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dark red-brown; double, waved, subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines filled in with grey, and with black points on each side of them at costa, the Ist ending at submedian fold, the 2nd oblique, the last bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and incurved below vein 3 and with grey points beyond it on the veins; the orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by grey, the former small, round, the latter sometimes filled in with blackish ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it pale grey ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through them; the underside grey-brown irrorated with black, the costal area tinged with red; a black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. orbits. More uniform grey-brown. Ab. 2. Ground-colour grey ; hind wing paler. Hab. Canava, Vancouver I., 1 2 type variv; U.S.A., Colorado, 2 92, Glenwood Springs, Nevada, California, Sierra Nevada, 2 ¢ type orbis, Exp. 40 millim, 1098. Triphena alternata, (Plate LXXVII. fig. 12.) Noctua alternata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii. p. 526, pl. 5. £.8 (1864) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 53, Head and thorax ochreous or reddish brown, sometimes irrorated with fuscous; palpi rufous at sides, pale at tips; abdomen ochreous or reddish irrorated with black, thickly on dorsum, the hair at sides and anal tuft rufous. Fore wing greyish, more or less strongly tinged with chestnut or purplish red and irrorated with black; distinct double, waved, subbasal, ante- and postmedial lines, the 1st extending to submedian fold, the 2nd oblique, and the last bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, with a series of points on the veins beyond it ; orbicular and reniform defined by grey, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it paler; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside reddish ochreous irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line, 6338 NOCTUID.2. Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with black to the subterminal line, Ab. 2. Fore wing more uniform grey-brown or dark brown. Hab. Canavpa (Non rman), 1 2; U.S.A., Northern and Middle Atlantic States to Mississippi, New York, Fie Centre, 5 3,4 9, Washington, D.C., [linois, Colorado (Bruce), 1 3. Exp. 40-44 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 316 (1899). Head 3 millim., pale, reticulated with brown, the curved band from vertex nearly contiguous to median suture, faint below, concentric with a narrower line that runs upward from the eye. Body heavily mottled with dark brown, subventral region and feet much paler; dorsal line whitish, very narrow, broken somewhat broadly in. the incisures ; oblique subdorsal shades dark, diffuse, paler-edged posteriorly ; subdorsal line obsolete, just indicated by a paler shading ; substigmatal band sharp above, defined by a white line undulating below the spiracles, mottled with reddish and shading into the pale subventral area; spiracles black-rimmed. Feeds on oak, hickory, ete.—H.G. D. 1099. Triphena anchocelioides. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 13.) Cerastis anchocelioides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 384 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 52. Noctua cupida, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ili. p. 525, pl. 5. f. 7 (1864). Graphiphera velata, Wk. xxxiii. 710 (1865). Agrotis brunneipennis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 187 (1875). Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with black; palpi black except at extremity ; abdomen grey-brown, the hair at sides and anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface grey irrorated with black. Fore wing dull red-brown irrorated with black; indistinct double, waved, subbasal and antemedial lines; orbicular and reniform small, defined by black and with fuscous centres; the postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with fuscous suffusion between it and the subterminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points usually present. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through them ; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. brunneipennis. Head, thorax, and fore wing deep purple- brown. Ab. 2. cupida. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright chestnut, the last sometimes with broad black bands before the ante- and subterminal lines, or with the stigmata filled in with black, or with whitish annuli and no black on them. Hab, Canava (Norman), 1 9, Vancouver Is., 1 2 type veluta; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and be States, Massachusetts, New York, Trenton Falls, 1 9 type, 2 5,4 Q, Grote Coll. , type brunnei- pennis, W ashington, D.C., Llinois, Towa, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico. Hap. 32-38 millim. Larva. Marten, Trans. Dept. Agr. Ill. xviii. App. p. 136 (1880). [No description. | Feeds on grape.—H. G. D. TRIPH BNA. 639 1100. Triphena minimalis. (Plate LXXYVII. fig. 14.) Agrotis minimalis, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 45 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 52. ©. Head and thorax reddish chestnut slightly mixed with fuscous; palpi black, the extremity of 2nd joint grey; legs grey irrorated with rufous and black; abdomen grey, with the hair at sides and anal tuft rufous and the ventral surface irrorated with rufous. Fore wing chestnut-red slightly irrorated with black; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and some black on their lower extremities, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter placed on the medial shade which expands towards costa, where there is a black point; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a broad deep chestnut band before the subterminal line, which has a blackish spot at costa and is excurved below costa and at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia dark brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with brown line through them; the underside with discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Maine, Colorado (Snow), 1 2 type. Ewp. 30 millim. 1101. Triphena cupidissima. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 15.) Agrotis cupidissima, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 101 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56. 2. Pale ochreous brown, sometimes tinged with rufous: palpi rufous ; abdomen at sides and anal tuft rufous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen irrorated with black. Fore wing irro- rated with black, sometimes very slightly, the markings fairly well-defined or almost obsolete ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pale outlines, the centres irrorated with black ; the postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate and produced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line with some diffused black on its inner side at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, deeper towards termen; the cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside greyish irrorated with black, a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Mendocino, Sanzalito, 4 2, type. wp. 40 millim. Larva. (Original.) Head 2°5 millim.,shining pale brown, reticulate with dark brown, the curved vertical band and streak upward from eye broad and distinct. Body rather dark brown, finely mottled and dotted in dark brown on a cream-coloured ground, which appears dorsally on joints 5 to 12 in diffuse segmental patches widening the 640 ' NOCTUID. narrow whitish dorsal line which is broken in the incisures; sub- dorsal line lost, indicated by a minute pale dot on anterior edge of each segment. Subdorsal oblique patches forming distinct triangular brown marks on joints 11 and 12, elsewhere obsolete, the one on joint 12 edged behind by a pale transverse line. Substigmatal band scarcely paler, sharply edged above by a dark shade, shading below into the subventral area, Cervical shield slightly darker than body ; spiracles black-rimmed ; tubercles blackish.—H. G. D. 1102. Triphena belfragei. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 16.) Rhynchagrotis belfragei, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 20 (1890); id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 53. @. Head and thorax ferruginous brown; palpi black except at tips; pectus and legs black irrorated with grey ; abdomen grey- brown irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore wing ferruginous brown, slightly irrorated with black ; an indistinct double, curved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform very faint, the former round; postmedial line indistinct, double, punctiform, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of points; cilia dull brown. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia grey, with brown line at base ; the underside with the costal area rufous, irrorated with black, an indistinct discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 3 9. Hp. 42 millim. 1103. Triphena trigona. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 17.) Rhynchagrotis cupidissima, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus, 38, p. 24 (1890), nec Grote. Rhynchagrotis trigona, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 53 (1893). Head and thorax red-brown, or grey-brown irrorated with a few dark scales ; palpi black at sides, pale at tips ; legs strongly irrorated with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing red-brown or grey-brown, irrorated with black ; an indis- tinct. curved double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter moderate; the postmedial line minutely waved and with some dark points beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line shghtly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous on inner side and with a more or less prominent black patch before it at costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside greyish irrorated with black, the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. {TRIPH AN A,—PRONOCTUA. 641 Hab. Canana, British Columbia; U.S.A., Kansas, Douglas Co. (Snow),1 5,19. Hap. 40-44 millim. #1104. Triphena inelegans. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 18.) Agrotis inelegans, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xvii. p. 43 (1890); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 54. @. Dull blackish brown; teguli tinged with reddish especially at tips; thorax, base of patagia, and pro- and metathoracic crests at tips reddish; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with a slight reddish tinge at base of costa; the medial area slightly darker; the subbasal line double, black, distinct ; antemedial line double, blackish, distinct, even, oblique, slightly excurved in interspaces ; claviform faintly marked; orbicular and reniform moderate, with slight annuli of pale scales ; postmedial line with double spot on costa, only defined by the slight contrast between the medial and post- medial areas, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- curved; subterminal line prominent, somewhat irregular, formed of white scales and almost continuous except towards costa and inner margin. Hind wing fuscous, the underside with dark irroration and tinged with reddish, a discoidal spot and interrupted postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada. Hap. 31 millim. This species is unknown to me; figured from a photograph from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 1105. Triphena letula. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 19.) Agrotis letula, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 83 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56, Rhynchagrotis distracta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 86 (1890). gd. Head and tegule dark brown mixed with grey; palpi purplish red ; thorax deep purple-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey-brown suffused with purplish brown and strongly irrorated with black ; a double black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, excurved below costa, then oblique; an oblique double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform defined by greyish; orbicular and reniform defined by grey, the former semicircular, open above, the latter moderate ; the postmedial line indistinctly double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line defined by greyish on inner side and some fuscous at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them; the underside greyer, irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 2 3 type, Oregon, California (Walsingham), 1 3. Exp, 38 millim. Genus PRONOCTUA. roe Lyp E; Pronoctua, Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 44 (1894)............ ‘ypicd. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd VOL. IY. 27 642 NOCTUIDAE. joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the 35rd short, blunt, porrect; frons smooth ; antenne of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter with very slight spreading crests on pro- and metathorax ; fore tibize fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiw spined. Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen somewhat crenulate ; veins 38 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen somewhat crenulate and excised at discal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish ochreous ... typica. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey .................0605 pyrophiloides. 1106. Pronoctua typica. Pronoctua typica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 45, pl. iv. f. 1 (1894). Pale brownish ochreous; palpi and frons suffused with fuscous; thorax irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with black. Fore wing irrorated with black; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to vein 1, with some fuscous suffusion between it and the double irregularly waved antemedial line, which is angled outwards below costa; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous annuli defined by blackish, the former somewhat elliptical, the latter partly obscured by the medial shade, which is oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then waved, the cell between the stigmata blackish ; a dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards below Fig. 115.—Pronoctua typica, G. 1}. costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, and with traces of a line beyond it; the subterminal line ochreous, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion before it and fuscous suffusion on terminal area; a terminal series of black peints. Hind wing ochreous tinged with pale brown ; the cilia yellowish. Underside of both wings pale, with curved dark postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Chaffee Co., 7000 ft. (Bruce), 1-9. Kap. 48 millim. 1107. Pronoctua pyrophiloides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 20.) Agrotis pyrophiloides, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 87 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 78. Q. Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with darker brown ; palpi fuscous at sides; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen PRONOCTUA.—BEUERETAGROTIS. 643 grey-brown. Fore wing iuteous grey, irrorated and more or less suffused with brown; a double, waved, brown subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by brown, the medial shade passing between them and bent inwards to costa; the postmedial line arising froma black point on costa, dentate and produced to pale points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly angled inwards at vein 5 and outwards at vein 4, then oblique; a pale dentate subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in discal fold and with the area beyond it browner; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside suffused with white except towards termen, an indistinct curved sinuous postmedial line. Hab. U.S.A., California, 29. Hwp. 42 millim. Genus EUERETAGROTIS. Type Eueretagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 47 (1890) ...... sigmoides. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd well-developed and nearly naked ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennz of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with well-developed spreading tufts; fore tibix broadly fringed with hair; mid and hind tibize spined ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing usually broad, the apex rectangular; veins dand 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upperangle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discal fold; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from upper angle. r Sucr. I. Antenne of male with short fasciculate branches. 1108. Eueretagrotis patricia. Agrotis patricia, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 812 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. dg. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the head and tegule mostly black ; palpi blackish, ochreous at tips; frons with black bar; pectus and legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing Fig. 116.—Lueretagrotis patricia, 3. }- ochreous brown, the medial area to median nervure blackish, the inner medial area and terminal area purplish brown; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; a double, slightly waved, obliquely curved antemedial line with some purplish brown before 272 644 NOCTUID®. it; claviform small, purplish black defined by black ; orbicular ana reniform defined by black and a few ochreous scales, the former rounded ; an indistinct medial line from cell to inner margin; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved below vein 4, a series of dark points on the veins beyond it; the subter- minal line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal punctiform black line and greyish line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey, suffused with fuscous brown; the cilia ochreous white, brownish at base; the underside grey, irrorated with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial line. Hab, Tisrr, Kuku-noor, 1 ¢, Amdo. wp. 32 millim. Secr. II. Antenne of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore wing rather narrow. 1109, Eueretagrotis agathina. Agrotis agathina, Dup. Lép. Fr. vii. p. 359, pl. 122. f. 2 (1827); Herr.- Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pl. i. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. Agrotis lidia, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 65 (1829); id. Icones, pl. 77. f. 1, nee Cram. Graphiphora albimacula, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 187, pl. 19. f. 3 (1829). Lytea leucographa, Steph. Ul. Brit. Ent., Haust. 1. p. 199 (1829). Agrotis scoparie, Mill. Ic. ii. p. 151, pl. 67. ff. 7-10 (1864). Agrotis hebridicola, Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 158 (1901). Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegule with black line near base and whitish tips; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing bright rufous ; the veins slightly streaked with fuscous; the costal area whitish towards base; a black streak in base of submedian fold ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique whitish striga from Fig. 117.—Eueretagrotis agathina, $. + costa; the antemedial line angied outwards below costa, in sub- median fold, and more strongly above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black and with rufous centres, the former small, oblique or rounded, the cell before and between them with black fascia sometimes continued to postmedial line ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to greyish points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incuryed ; some pale points on costa towards apex; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by dentate black marks on inner side BUERETAGROTIS. 645 at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of white points at extremities of veins, with small blackish spots between them. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous towards apex, a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal band. Ab. 1. hebridicola. Fore wing paler and almost without rufous tinge. — Hebrides. Ab. 2. scoparie. Much darker, almost black.—France. Hab. Brrratn, Leech Coll.; France, Frey & Sand Colls.; Brnerum; N. Sparx. Eevp. 32-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 96; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 359, pl. 183. f. 2. Green or pinkish brown with darker irroration; dorsal line whitish with dark edges; subdorsal line whitish, black-edged above ; spiracular line broader, ochreous white, sometimes dark-edged above ; head pale yellow-brown with darker markings. Food-plants: Calluna, Erica. 9-6. Srcr. IIT. Antennz of male ciliated ; fore wing broad. A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black. a. Size large ; thorax with the crests prominently pale ...... sigmotdes. b. Size smaller ; thorax with the crests more concolorous ... perattenta. B. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. a. Fore wing without diffused brown in and below cell ...... attenta. b. Fore wing with diffused brown in and below cell ......... Suscostigina. 1110. Eueretagrotis sigmoides. Noctua sigmoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 825 (1852) ; Smith, Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 60. Head and tegule and patagia deep red-brown, largely mixed with black, the tegule deep black at extremities, and the tegule and patagia with pale edges above; vertex of thorax brownish grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and fuscous brown; a diffused 1 Fig. 118,—Lueretagrotis sigmoides, 3. 4 black streak below base of cell; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold sharply angled outwards below costa ; a double, waved, antemedial line ; claviform defined by black above ; orbicular and reniform greyish or brownish, defined by black and with the cell before and between them black ; the postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, and 646 NOCTUID®. incurved below vein 4; a pale minutely dentate subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some pale points and a black patch before it at costa; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish suffused wholly with red-brown ; the cilia pale; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canapva (Norman), 1 6,19; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York, Trenton Falls (Doubleday), 2 3 type, Evan’s Centre (Grote),5 $,1 2. Exp. 44 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). Head 2°5 millim., rather dark brown, obscuring the brown reticulations and curved band from vertex, with a narrower line running upward from the eye. Body pale brown, somewhat pinkish or cream-colour ; dorsal line narrow, pale, brown-marked and shortly broken in the incisures; subdorsal shades and lines scarcely perceptible ; substigmatal line straight above, narrowly pale, edged with a dark line that runs through the centres of the spiracles (except on joint 12), broad, ill-defined below, and shading into the pale subventral area. Probably a general feeder.—H. G. D. 1111. Eueretagrotis perattenta. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 21.) Agrotis perattentus, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 151 (1874); id. Ill. Essay, 51, pl. 1. f. 7; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 60. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and slightly with black ; palpi blackish at sides; tegule black at extremities ; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen grey, tinged with rufous towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing grey, largely suffused with purple-brown ; a diffused black streak below base of cell; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards in cell; a double oblique, irregularly waved antemedial line; claviform small, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform greyish, defined by black and with the cell before and between them black, the former rather small, nearly round; a minutely dentate postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4; the pale subterminal line with the area before it purple-brown and some pale points and blackish patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish irrorated with fuscous brown especially towards termen; a terminal series of dark striz; underside more pro- minently irrorated, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canapa, Renfrew Co., 2 6, 39; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States to Mississippi and Texas, New York (Doubleday), 3 3, Evan’s Centre (Grote), 1 $, 1 2 type, Kats Kills, 1 ¢. Exp, 40-42 millim. EUERETAGROTIS. 647 1112. Eueretagrotis attenta. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 22.) Agrotis attenta, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 131 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 60. Head, tegule, and patagia reddish brown, mixed with black ; thorax grey ; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull reddish brown mixed with grey ; a black streak below base of cell; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique double, waved, antemedial line; claviform small, slightly defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black with grey annuli and brown centres, the former round or elliptical; the postmedial line dentate and pro- duced to points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved in discal fold and below vein 4; the subterminal line obscurely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather greyer; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing grey tinged with brown; a terminal series of dark striz; the underside with discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hab, Canapa; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, Maine (Packard), 1 $ type, New York (Doubleday, Bailey), 1 3,1 9. Exp. 40 millim. 1113. Eueretagrotis fuscostigma. Noctua fuscostigma, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 51, pl. 5. f. 10 (1864); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 138. Graphiphora lubentia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 362 (1879). Noctua hysgina, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 76, pl. 7. f. 8 (1880). Head and thorax purple-brown, the scales tipped with grey; palpi dark brown, pale at tips; tegule tipped with grey; legs blackish, the tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen pale, the anal tuft fulvous. Fore wing purple-brown ; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa and with black point beyond it in cell and short streak below the cell; a double oblique antemedial line angled outwards below costa and excurved above inner margin; orbicular and reniform purple- fuscous slightly defined by grey, the former oblique, elliptical, the cell before and between them and the area below the cell suffused with dark olive-brown ; the postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, defined by brown marks on inner side and by a black bar and some points towards costa, slightly angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a crenulate terminal line. Hind wing yellowish suffused with fuscous brown especially towards termen; the underside yellowish, with more or less fuscous on terminal area. Hab, Amurtanp, 1 g, Askold I.; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 2, type lubentia, Tokio (Maries), 1 3d, Oiwake (Pryer), 4 9°, Hakodate (Leech), 1 9. Exp. 40-44 millim. 648 NOCTUID®. Genus RHYNCHAGROTIS. Tyne Rhynchagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 13 (1890) ... gilvipennis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately scaled in front, the 3rd naked ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter without crests ; mid and hind tibizw strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 trom near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Hind wing with the terminal band slightly expanding on apical area and) im submedianifold 00. 2..sc0c4s.doersenestassee chardinyt. B. Hind wing with the terminal band broadly expanding on apical area and in submedian fold ..................0-ceseeeseee gilvipennis. 1114. Rhynchagrotis chardinyi. Triphena chardinyi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 94 (1829); Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 328, pl. 30. ff. 149, 150; Dup. Lép. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 217, pl. 20. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Triphena hetera, Eversm. Bull. Mose. 1837, p. 54; Frey, Neue Beitr. Schmett. iii. pl. 279. f. 1. Agrotis fuchsii, Wendl. Jarb. Nass. Verh. liv. p. 86 (1901). Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with grey and reddish-brown hair ; palpi and front of pectus whitish ; tarsi black with whitish rings ; abdomen black with the anal tuft yellowish at tip. Fore ‘wing reddish brown suffused with grey a subbasal dark striga Fig. 119.— Rhynchagrotis chardinyi, G. }. from costa; the antemedial line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell and on vein 1; orbicular grey, oblique, elliptical; reniform rather small, outlined with grey: the post- medial line minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at median nervules, then incurved, and with more or less diffused grey beyond it ; an irregularly waved grey,;subterminal line with diffused brown on its inner side ; a fine brown-terminal line and line through the cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow; the basal, costal, and inner areas irrorated with fuscous brown; a broad terminal black band with sinuous inner edge; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing fuscous black, with yellow fascie on costa and median nervure, and the terminal area yellow. Hab. Germany, E. Prussia; Centr. Russia, 1 ¢,1 9, Frey Coll.; W. Srperia, Altai, 1 9 ; Moneorra; EK. Srpzria, 3 5,1 9, Zeller Coll., Amur. Lap. 32 millim. RHYNCHAGROTIS.— PROTEUXOA. 649 1115. Rhynchagrotis gilvipennis. (Plate LXXVIL. fig. 23.) Agrotis gilvipennis, Grote, 6th Rept. Peab. Acad. Sci., App. p. 24 (1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 51; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. Head and thorax grey and fuscous brown, the latter sometimes tinged with rufous; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen yellowish irrorated with fuscous and dorsally suffused with fuscous, leaving pale segmental lines on the terminal segments. Fore wing brown suffused with grey or ochreous; a subbasal striga from costa; a waved antemedial line; the orbicular and reniform with pale annuli defined by black, the former very oblique, elliptical, and with its lower extremity confluent with the rather small reniform ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line greyish, irregularly sinuous, with diffused brown on its inner edge and a blackish patch with two pale points on it at costa; a fine terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the basal, costal, and inner areas strongly suffused with fuscous black; a broad black terminal band expanding at apex and in submedian fold; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing black, with slight yellow streak on median nervure and the marginal areas yellow. Hab. Canapa, Labrador, Anticosti, 1 ¢ 9, type; U.S.A., Maine, Vermont, Andirondack Mts., Massachusetts, Buffalo, 1 9 , New York. Exp., & 28, 2 34 millim. Genus PROTEUXOA, nov. Type, P. amaurodes. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair; frons smooth; eyes smooth; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter with slight tufts behind tegule and on metathorax ; hind tibiz with one spine between the spurs. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 5 the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sxcr. I. Autennz of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate branches. #1116. Proteuxoa mniodes. Agrotis mnoides, Lower, ined. 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; tarsal joints black with pale rings ; abdomen pale brownish grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line double, waved, black, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line double, waved, angled outwards in cell and excurved above inner margin; clayiform conical, black ; orbicular and reniform grey, with whitish annuli and black outline, the former round, the latter moderate, some blackish suffusion in cell between them and beyond the latter; a waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin: the post- medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 650 ' NOCLUID!A. the subterminal line pale, slightly angled at veins 6 and 4, and with series of dentate black marks on its inner edge; a terminal series Fig. 120.—Proteuxoa mniodes, G. 1. of black points; cilia with two brown lines through them. Hind wing fuscous grey. Hab. N.S. Watus, Broken Hill, type t ¢ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 32 millim. Srer. II. Antenne of male ciliated. 1117. Proteuxoa amaurodes. Agrotis amaurodes, Lower, ined. Grey irrorated with fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tegule with the basal half blackish. Fore wing with indis- tinct subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line, more distinctly angled outwards below cell and above inner margin; orbicular represented by a brown-edged whitish point ; a waved medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell; a black discoidal lunule expanding below and with some ochreous or grey on its outer edges; the postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, oblique below Fig. 121.—Proteuxoa amaurodes, S$. }. vein 4, and angled inwards in submedian fold; the subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous suffusion on its inner side from costa to below middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, suffused with brown except in and just below and beyond cell; the veins brown; cilia white with a brown line through them; the underside white irro- rated with black, a small black discoidal lunule, traces of a curved postinedial line and a large apical black patch extending to below vein 6. Hab. Tasmania, Exeter (Lower), 19,192. Exp. 38 millim. Type Tf in Coll. Lower. PROPATRIA. 651 Genus PROPATRIA, nov. Type, P. newroides. ‘ Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd porrect; frons with large truncate conical prominence with corneous rim at extremity; eyes large, rounded ; antennze of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiz fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibie with a few spines. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ecll; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked. A. Fore wing with the veins defined by dentate white streaks BOWEN CSREES CIM ery eee eccrece aie bate nese ouretiaes Metin cement eek mike neurodes. B. Fore wing with the veins not defined by dentate white streaks iN ORRIN AS} HEALD OVSIT ops ee ee ees es ome eae a ee mundoides. 1118. Propatria neuroides. Heliothis neuroides, Swinh. A, M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax clothed with white, rufous, and black scales ; abdomen ochreous, ventrally white irrorated with brown. Fore wing clothed with white, rufous, and brown scales; the veins with dark streaks defined by white; the discal and submedian folds with rufous streaks; an indistinct, slightly dentate, white and brown antemedial line; orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, Fig. 122.—Propatria neuroides, G. 1. with brown centres and white annuli defined by brown, the former elongate; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold, then out- wards on vein 1; a terminal series of black points; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown in male, in female the terminal area suffused with brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab, W. Avsrratia, Sherlock R. (Clements), 2g,42. Exp. 32 millim. Type fT in Mus. Oxon. 1119. Propatria mundoides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 24.) Agrotis mundoides, Lower, ined. Head and thorax clothed with dull rufous and dark brown scales tipped with grey; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen pale brown, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull 652 ' NOCTUIDZ. brown irrorated with white; dull rufous streaks in discal and sub- median folds; the veins with slight black streaks towards termen ; traces of a highly dentate antemedial line; claviform indistinctly defined by black; orbicular and reniform indistinct, with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former elliptical ; the postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white ; the veins and inner area tinged with brown; the terminal area fuscous from costa to below vein 2, more broadly in female; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. N.S. Waxes, Broken Hill (Lower), 5 6,3 9; Vrcrorta, Birchup (Lyell), 1 2; S. Ausrratra, Adelaide (Lyell), 19. Hap. 38-42 millim. Genus ECTOPATRIA, nov. Type, E. subrufescens. : Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to well beyond the frons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate; frons with slight vertical ridges; eyes smooth; antennz of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter with slight tufts behind tegule and on metathorax ; hind tibize with one to three spines between the spurs. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. AC Meruleiblackiat Daseics.-ss-> srs cscs seston tee escceemencomectenss paurogramma. B. Tegulee not black at base. a. Kore wing with the lines obsolete..............2..:essressesees spilomata. », Fore wing with the lines developed. a’, Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish. d= HOre wing tinged= with) mWlOUSls,ceceseceeceseceeerace ott subrufescens. 5°, Fore wing not tinged with rufous .................-.++ asperd. }', Fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous ............... umbrosa. 1120. Ectopatria paurogramma. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 25.) Agrotis pauregramma, Lower, ined. Head and thorax grey, strongly irrorated with dark brown ; sides of frons and base of tegule black; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with dark brown and black; slight black streaks in discal and submedian folds and on the veins towards termen; traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown especially on terminal area. Hab. W. Ausrratia, Derby, 1 ¢, Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 2. Exp. 34 millim. Type f ¢ in Coll. Lower. ECLOPATRIA. 653 *1121. Ectopatria spilomata. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 26.) Agrotis spilomata, Lower, ined. ©. Head and thorax brownish ochreous mixed with white and dark brown; abdomen white irrorated with darker brown. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with darker brown; the veins, cell, discal fold, and an oblique streak from upper angle of cell to costa before apex suffused with dark brown; the lines obsolete; claviform obsolete; orbicular and reni- form white, the former small, oblique, the latter constricted at middle and with brown spots in its upper and lower parts; three white points on costa towards apex; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing white, slightly tinged with brown especially on the veins. Hab. Vicrorta, Blackwood, type + Q in Coll. Lower. Lup. 36 millim. 1122. Ectopatria subrufescens. Agrotis subrufescens, Wik. xxxii. 705 (1865). o. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish and black scales ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white, tinged with brown Fig. 125.—Ectopatria subrufescens, 3. +. on dorsum, ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing whitish, suffused with ferruginous and irrorated with black; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; a waved oblique antemedial black line defined by whitish on inner side ; reniform small, slightly outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform small, with rufous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter constricted at middle; the postmedial line dentate, defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and incurved in submedian fold; a whitish subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of dentate black marks before it ; a terminal series of black points; cilia whitish, with a black line through them. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and termen 654 NOCTUIDZ tinged with fuscous; a fine terminal black line except towards tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. ©. Hind wing suffused with brown. Hab. Austraria (Diggles), 1 3 type; 8. Austratia, Alice Spring (Lower), 16. Exp. 36 millim. : 1123. Ectopatria aspera. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 27.) Hadena aspera, Wik. xi. 601 (1857). Aylina provida, W1k. xv. 1787 (1858). Aylina canescens, W1k. xxxiil. 757 (1865). 6. Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tegulee with black medial line; tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish, more or less tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black striz below costa and cell; the antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by black on inner side; claviform elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former small, nearly round, the latter constricted at middle; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold; an indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- curved at middle, and with some dentate blackish marks on inner side; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins fuscous ; the terminal area fuscous, broadly at costa, narrowing to a point at tornus; the underside with large black apical patch. Hab. N. S. Watts, 1 3 type, (Raynor) 1 6; New ZeEatanp, Auckland, 3 ¢, types provida and canescens. Exp. 38-40 millim. 1124. Ectopatria umbrosa, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 28.) @. Head and thorax grey-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; abdomen yellowish brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous; the costa, discal and submedian folds with slight pale ochreous streaks; a waved black subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold; a waved antemedial line slightly defined by grey on inner side ; claviform indistinct, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former elliptical, oblique, the latter constricted at middle ;. a waved medial line indistinct except below cell; a dentate post- medial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in sub- median fold; the subterminal line represented by very indistinct dentate marks. Hind wing fuscous brown; the cilia white, with brown line at base except towards tornus. Hab. Qurrnstannd (Mathew), 1 9 type. Exp. 40 millim. PROTAGROTIS, 655 Genus PROTAGROTIS, nov. Type, P. viralis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and moderately {fringed with hair, the 3rd porrect; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenn of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; fore tibix fringed with hair, mid tibize without spines, hind tibie with one spine between medial and terminal spurs; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing moderately broad, the apex not produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle ef cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 » from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from cell. Sxcr. I. Antenne of male with long bristles and cilia. 1125. Protagrotis cuprea. Gortyna cuprea, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 50, pl. 6. f. 8; Himpsn. Moths Ind. il. p. 175. Head and thorax vinous red mixed with purplish fuscous, hairs tipped with grey; pectus more fulvous; abdomen purple-brown, with the anal tuft and ventral surface more fulvous. Fore wing orange thickly irrorated with fiery red, the costal area, cell, and postmedial area suffused with purplish fuscous ; the veins with dark streaks ; the subbasal line red, indistinct, waved from costa to sub- median fold; the antemedial line red, waved, strongly excurved below cell; claviform large, defined by red; orbicular and reniform Fig. 124.—Protagrotis cuprea, 3. large, defined by red, the former oblique, elliptical, or nearly round ; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4; a dentate orange subterminal line slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian folds; a fine dark waved terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown; the costal area ochreous; the cilia pinkish rufous. The underside ochreous suffused with purplish pink; hind wing with sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Sixutm (Atkinson), 1 3 cotype, (Dudgeon) 1 Q. Hxp., 3 40, 2 44 millim. 656 ~ NOCTUIDZ. Sect. II. Antenne of male with short cilia. 1126. Protagrotis viralis. Agrotis viralis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 260 (1830); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 132. ¢. Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale red-brown, whitish towards base. Fore wing whitish, largely suffused with pale red-brown, the veins whitish; a short black streak below base of cell and an oblique subbasal streak from inner margin to vein 1; antemedial line obsolete ; a brown patch above middle of vein 1, with two black streaks on its upper edge on each side of submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform whitish, the former small, narrow, oblique, the latter with darker centre, some brown Fig. 125.—Protagrotis viralis, g. + suffusion in cell before and between them; postmedial line almost obsolete, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line pale, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 3, 4, with some small dentate black marks on its inner side at middle and the area beyond it darker ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, and with the terminal area darker. Underside more ochreous ; hind wing with black discoidal point. 2. Thorax mixed with black; fore wing suffused with black and with the black markings more prominent. Hab. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 ¢ type, Colorado (Cockerell), 1 9. Exp., 3 40, 2 46 millim. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA, 65 ADDENDA anv CORRIGENDA. Page 45. 56. Chloridea armigera insert Bombyx obsoleta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. i. p. 456 (1793), which has precedence. — Page 58, *73a. Thyreion patagonica. (Plate LXIX. fig. 23.) Heliothis patagonicus, Berg, Bull. Mose. 1875, p. 220. 3. Head and thorax pale rufous; pectus and legs whitish, the latter tinged with fuscous ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale olive; the median nervure, vein 1, and the veins beyond the cell streaked with white ; the costa, inner margin, and postmedial area irrorated with brown ; ante- and postmedial lines obsolete; claviform well-developed, brown, connected with base by a streak below the cell; orbicular obsolete ; reniform a very irregular brown patch extending to below cell and interrupted by the white streak on median nervure; sub- terminal line white, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; some minute black points on termen. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown; the terminal area brown with diffused inner edge ; a diffused brown discoidal spot; cilia white, brownish at base; the underside white, with diffused discoidal spot and terminal band from vein 4 to tornus. Fore tibize with one long claw and four very short ones on outer side, one claw and two spines on inner. Hab. Paraconta, Carmen, typet ¢ in Mus. Buenos Ayres. Exp. 28 millim, Page 78. 113. Schinia lucilinea. 6. Fore tibie with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer. Jamaica, in Coll. Schaus. Page 81. *121 a. Schinia eximia. (Plate LXIX. fig. 24.) Heliothis extmius, Berg, Bull. Mose. 1875, p. 218. d. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Fore wing with the area to postmedial line whitish, tinged with rufous and irrorated with dark brown; subbasal line blackish, defined by white on outer side, waved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, waved, blackish defined by white on inner side; claviform moderate, blackish ; orbicular and reniform rufous defined by blackish, the former round, conjoined to antemedial line ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then VoL, LV. 20 658. NOCTUID®, incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; postmedial area blackish, terminal area pale reddish brown, the subterminal line defined by the difference between them, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; cilia chequered fuscous and whitish. Hind wing whitish, the basal area and a broad terminal band brown, confluent on inner area and conjoined to a brown discoidal lunule ; cilia white, brown at base from apex to vein 2. Fore tibize with one claw and two spines on inner side, four claws on outer. Hab. Patagonia, Carmen, type t ¢ in Mus. Buenos Ayres. Exp. 28 millim. Page 130. *229 a. Isochlora xanthiana. (Plate LXXVIILI. fig. 5.) Isochlora xanthiana, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 820 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 3. Head and thorax ochreous ; palpi, lower part of frons, pectus, and legs rufous; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous especially on ventral surface. Fore wing yellow; a waved rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line rufous, oblique, strongly and rather irregularly dentate ; orbicular represented by a shght oblique rufous striga; reniform a small fuscous lunule; a broad rufous shade beyond the cell extending to the antemedial line at submedian fold and inner margin ; postmedial line sinuous and produced to slight points on the veins, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; a subterminal series of small rufous lunules slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia rufous. Hind wing ochreous tinged with rufous, a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside more strongly suffused with rufous, a fuscous discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Trsnr, Amdo, Sinin Mts., in Coll. Piingeler. Lap. 50 millim. Page 133, 235. Agrotiphila staudingeri del. Agrotis montana. Page 136. 240. Orosagrotis rigida insert Agrotis montana, Morr. Ann. Lye, Nat. Hist. N.Y. xi. p. 95 (1875), which has precedence. Page 140. 245 a. Porosagrotis caffra, n. sp. (Plate LX XVII. fig. 29.) 3g. Antenne bipectinate, with long branches to apex. Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous; the costal area suffused with fuscous to beyond middle; a blackish streak in cell from middle to extremity continued in discal fold indistinctly to termen; an obsolescent streak in sub- ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 659 median fold ; subbasal line represented by black strive from costa and median nervure, defined by whitish on outer side ; antemedial line represented by a black striga from costa defined by whitish on inner side and by a double line from median nervure, slightly angled outwards in submedian fold and strongly above inner margin ; clavi- form elongate, defined by black and filled in with fuscous ; faint traces of small black-defined orbicular and reniform stigmata on the black fascia in cell; postmedial line hardly traceable, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of small dentate dark marks; some fuscous suffusion on termen above middle. Hind wing yellowish white; the underside with traces of diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 6. Hab. Natat, Mooi R., 1 ¢$ type. wp. 40 millim. Page 152. 268 a. Micragrotis microstigma, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIILI. fig. 10.) g. Head and thorax black slightly mixed with grey; tarsi with pale bands; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pale brown thickly irrorated and suffused with black especially on costal area; an indistinct irregular sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold, with some pink beyond it: at costa and on each side of it below the cell; an indistinct ante- medial line slightly defined by pinkish on inner side; claviform represented by a slight black streak with some pink above it; orbicular and reniform very small, round, with pink centres defined by black; faint traces of a postmedial line slightly defined by pinkish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by some very indistinct dentate dark marks ; cilia chequered pink and fuscous. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal area tinged with fuscous, a fine black terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small dis- coidal. spot and postmedial series of strize on the veins. Hab, MasnonatanD, Salisbury (Dobbic), 1 3, type. Hap. 16 millim. 268 b. Micragrotis prosarca, n. sp. (Plate LX XVIII. fig. 11.) Head and thorax black ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen ochreous white, the ventral surface blackish except medially towards extremity. Fore wing black suffused with blue-grey ; the costal area flesh-pink, at base extending to just below cell; a black streak below base of cell; the cell filled in with black; orbicular a white point; reniform very small, with fuscous centre and blue-grey annulus defined by black; traces of a highly dentate postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by slight diffused blackish ; black 660 NOCTUIDE. streaks from cell to termen above veins 4, 5, 6; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area suffused with fuscous, Hab. Masnonatann, Salisbury (Dobbie), 2 6,19, type. Hap. 26 millim. Page 153, under Zuvoa insert (syn.) Paragrotis, Pratt, Can. Ent. xv. DIG SSo) tien. SUGe. eons eee type merens, Page 173. 298 a. Euxoa hemispherica, n. sp. (Plate LX XVIII. fig. 6.) 3. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and with pale brown on head and tegule; palpi blackish at sides; tegule with black medial line; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with brown and fuscous ; sub- basal line double, from costa to submedian fold, to which it is incurved ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and in cell and more strongly above inner margin, excurved below cell; claviform very slightly defined at extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former oblique, elliptical, open above; postmedial line dentate, bent out- wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, then represented by a series of small whitish dentate marks, and excurved at middle, defined by brownish on inner side especially towards costa; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; a brown line through the cilia; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point. Hab, Cyprus Mts. (Miss D. M. A. Bate), 1 S type. Hep. 40 millim. Page 177, for wquicuspis read fissa. Page 190, for Euxoa zquicuspis read 327. Euxoa fissa. (Plate LXI. fig. 8.) Agrotis fissa, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 356, pl. 6. f. 4 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 149. Page 196, for farinosa read viguirwa. Page 207. 343 a, Euxoa cinereopallida. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 16.) Carneades cinercopallidus, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 10 (1903). Whiter and less yellow than Z. recula, the orbicular oblique, oblong, or rectangular, instead of rounded. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 661 Hab. U.S.A., Oregon, 3 35,1 2, Utah, Stockton, Nevada, 1 6, 1 Q, California (Walsingham), 1 6,19. Hep. 28 millim, All the specimens catalogued under Z. recula, except the type 2 , belong to this species. Page 227, for Euxoa farinosa read 391. Euxoa vigurea. (Plate LXII. fig. 30.) Agrotis vigurea, Ping. ined. The only locality recorded is Aksu. Page 232. 403. Euxoa tronella. Carneades tronellus, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 11 (1908). Page 272, Evxoa oprpara. The specimen from Norway is certainly this species, but it is very doubtful if it is Agrotis norwegirct. Page 321. 568 a. Euxoa rufomixta, n. sp. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 14.) 3g. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with black, the vertex of head ochreous ; frons with black bar; tegule with medial black line and fuscous tips; tarsi black with whitish rings; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing purplish red suffused with fuscous except on inner area; an indistinct double, waved, subbasal line from costa to subcostal fold ; a double, waved, antemedial line; claviform represented by a few black scales; orbicular rather small, round, defined by black at sides only ; reniform with black bar on inner side and spot on outer ; postmedial line rather strongly dentate, interrupted, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; the pale subterminal line only traceable towards costa ; a terminal series of minute black lunules; cilia purplish red. Hind wing white ; the cilia tinged with ochreous; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and some postmedial strize on the veins. Hab. C. Cotony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle), 1 ¢, type. Hep. 30 millim. Page 324, 573 a. Euxoa ruficeps, n. sp. (Plate LX XVIII. fig. 12.) 2. Head rufous, the palpi with some dark brown; tegulie rufous at base, with dark medial line and grey tips; thorax grey ; abdomen dull brown, the ventral surface blackish irrorated with grey, the extremity rufous. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous ; a slight black streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented by double black striz from costa; antemedial line double, very 662 NOCTUID ®. highly dentate; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round; postmedial line unusually near termen, double, highly dentate, very strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; terminal area with dark streaks on the veins defined on each side by rufous, becoming pale at the sub- terminal line, which is obsolete towards costa and dentate to near termen at veins 4, 3. Hind wing pure white ; the cilia yellowish ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. Hab. Masnonatanp, Salisbury (Dobbie), 1 3, type. Hap. 36 millim. Page 354, no. 627. Feltia annexa insert (syn.) Agrotis interferens, Wik. xv. 1699 (1858). Page 450. 771a. Agrotis semidolens. Agrotis semidolens, Wik. xi. 739 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p- 286, pl. 27. f. 13. Head and thorax grey, more or less strongly mixed with fuscous, the tegule and patagia sometimes edged by pale rufous; palpi black except at tips ; tarsi black, ringed with white ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey, more or less thickly striated with fuscous, the stric forming more or less confluent patches on costa before and at middle and towards apex and on middle of inner area, the costal patches and some other parts of wing slightly tinged with pale ferruginous ; reniform represented by an indistinct dark lunule; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, and a terminal line suffused with dark brown; cilia white, with a brown line through them; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, a diffused postmedial line on costal area, and some points on costa towards apex. Hab. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 ¢; Gusremata, Vera Paz (Champion), 2 2; Panama, Bugaba (Chanpion), 1 $; Cotomsta, Bogota (Stevens), 1 g type; Braz, 1 3, Amazons. Exp. 46- 54 millim. Page 454. 778 a, Agrotis ecstrigata, n. sp. (Plate LX XVIII. fig. 13.) 3. Head and thorax black; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish red and fuscous especially on costal and medial areas; the basal are2 more ochreous, the terminal area ochreous with fine black streaks on the veins and broader streaks in the interspaces; an indistinct double, waved, ante- medial line filled in with greyish; orbicular and reniform very small, defined by black, open above and below, the former round ; faint traces of a double, waved, postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the streaks in interspaces ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 663 of terminal area ending in black lunules; cilia chequered fuscous and whitish. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area tinged with fuscous. Hab, Masuonatand, Salisbury (Dobbie), 1 3, type. Hap. 28 millim. Page 467, under Episilia insert (syn.) Netrocerocora, Bart. Inis, OOP Dre se oss sw ees oe type corava. Page 470. 806. Episilia oblongula insert Rusine coraxa, Piing. Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 58 (1898), which has precedence, Netrocerocora quadriplaga, Bart. Iris, 1902, p. 207. Page 562. 975 a. Lycophotia ecvinacea, n. sp. (Plate LAXVIII. fig. 15.) $. Head and thorax leaden grey ; palpi purplish red except 3rd joint ; thorax dorsally slightly tinged with purplish red; tibise purplish red in front; abdomen grey-white. Fore wing leaden grey ; the subbasal line represented by two purplish-red spots on costa and some scales below cell, the antemedial line by a spot on costa; orbicular and reniform moderate, indistinctly defined and placed on a diffused purplish-red patch, the former round and with spot on costa above it; postmedial line represented by two spots on costa, then indistinct, punctiform, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; terminal area suffused with purplish red with slight dark streaks on the veins; cilia grey with a fine white line through them. Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area irrorated with grey. Hab. C. Cotony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle), 1 3, type. Hap. 38 millim. LIsT OF UNRECOGNIZED SPECIES. Melicleptria kasloa, Smith, Trans. Am, Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 208 (id SAU 8 3 oes OL RSC RANE ROR CS RON CRC RRP TESS Br. Columbia. Anthecia saturata, Wik. Char. Undeser. Het. p. 37 (1869). Type iS? spine ceescen kee ACSA EL Re Rae ee ee Riek aoc Hab, ? Heliothis olivaria, Greeser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 3865; Stand. Wat bepe pale pe ced thse) oa yctetens se Amurland. Erythrophaia suavis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 44; id. Cat. LUG) SOE La ore ee W.& E. Turkestan. Manruta elingua, Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 205 (1903). Arizona, Carneades maimes, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxy. p. 181 (1908), Canada. masculinus, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xi. p. 6 (1905). Washington, Utah, by) 664 NOCTUID®. Carneades focinus, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 7 (1903). Canada, Washington, Colorado. = rumatana, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 208 (L903): Fe oo Geta Saye teoie: steve ole eeemmcgas cs Gee Dakota. Agrotis bipartita, Greser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 318; Staud. Cat. AOD. Pale pe 136. wea s Renee ae ee E. Siberia, » merens, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 365, pl. 4. f. 3 (1896); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. ? Agrotis near rectangula. Mongolia. sulcifera, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 91 (1893); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 140. ?near Husoa tritict ........ Armenia. ,, dewitzi, Greser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 316; Staud. Cat. hep. pal. spa lAO. oc 5 6 «sys os, = leeuetos Amurland. glebosa, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 359, pl. 6. f. 5 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. ? Huwoa near tritici. Asia Minor, cicatricosa, Greeser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 218 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 141. ?= Agrotis melancholica. Amurland. nomas, Ersch. Fedschenk. Reis, p. 38, pl. 3. f. 36 (1874) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. ? Orosagrotis. W. Turkestan. dulcis, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 444 (1892); id. Rom. Mém. ix. p. 5, pl. 2. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 99 p, 142.) *? near Pawon erie)”. ceca ee Tibet. », lapidosa, Greser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 220; Staud. Cat. ep. palsy. 143" ere Oo inca comer tees gee Amurland. defessa, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1858, p. 144, pl. 2. f. 8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. ? Hpzsilia near simulatrix. Syria. haverkampfi, Stndf. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 359 ; Stand, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. ? Lycophotia near renigera. Corsica. decorata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 414; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. ? Lycophotia near renigera. W. Turkestan. » caucasica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1877, p. 1805; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. ? Lycophotia near renigera. Armenia. 5 parnassiphila, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 414; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. ? Lycophotia near renigera. : W. Turkestan. forficula, Ev. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1851, 11. p. 629; id. 1856, ii. p. 217, pl. 1. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 145. ?= Lycophotia rentgera 20.26. sn ejns oe as Armenia. » rattus, Alph. Rom. Mém. v. p. 86 (1889) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 146. ? Huxoa near mgricans ........ Tibet. fallaw, Ev. Bull. Soc. Nat, Mose. 1854, ii. p. 185 ; id. 1856, ii. p. 176, pl. 3. f.5 ; Herr.-Schiff. Neue Schmett. f. 15 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. ? Huwoa near tritici. W. Turkestan. » hatfe, Staud. Iris, x. p. 168, pl. 4. f.8 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. ? Huswoa near segetis .......... Syria. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 665 Agrotis arenosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 213; Rmbr. Cat. re) ” 9 ” VOL. Lep. And. pl. 12. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. PEE PEOLO MCAT SPUN EUG Vaasa «14 a0 «2 ae S. Spain. spissa, Staud. Iris, vill. p. 357, pl. 6. f 6 (1895) = spisse- linea, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 253 (1896); id. Cat. Lep. pal. pili, .? Kuxoa neartriteery. 2.03 i260. Mongolia. carthalina, Christ. Lris, vi. p. 91 (1893); Staud. Cat. Lep. pale elton. 2 Humod, Sectals aoals we ere a's Armenia. tristis, Staud. Iris, x. p. 333 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. ?= Huvou tritict. Mongolia; S.E. Siberia. anarmodia, Staud. Iris, x. p. 170, pl. 4. f. 9 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. ? near Huwoa segetis. Syria. solida, Ersch. Fedsch. Reis. p. 40, pl. 3. f. 41 (1874); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. ? Huaoc. Fergana. nigricostata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 248; id. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 421, pl. 6. f. 6; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151. CPuEOGMMEAT CONECER "} .. 21S earners S.E. Siberia. dirempta, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 212; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 152. ?=Huxoa crassa... «+s... Spain. bifurca, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 423; id. Cat. Lep. pale py dade 7luwoa, SecholL Aas. W. Turkestan. characteristica, Alph. Rom. Mém. vi. p. 31, pl. 1. f. 9 (1892); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. ?=Huwvoa PO OUSIDE. S Be sos Le ON Sens ft eee W. China. internexa, W1k. Entom. v. p. 128 (1870). Type lost. Arabia. inobtrusa, W1k. Entom. v. p. 128 (1870). Type lost. Arabia. mollis, Wlk. Entom. vy. p. 129 (1870). Type lost. Arabia. marginata, Wik. Entom. v. p. 129 (1870). ‘Type lost. Arabia. punetipes, Wik. xxxii. p. 695 (1865). Type lost. Ceylon. congrua, Wik. xxxii. p. 695 (1865). Type lost. | Ceylon. costalis, Wik. Char. Lep. Het. p. 69 (1869). Type lost. Australia. transversa, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 70 (1868). ‘Type lost. Australia. confluca, Saalm. Lép. Madag. p. 286 (1891). Madagascar. separata, Guen. Noet. i. p. 313 (1852) ...... Abyssinia. bilie, Guen. Noct.2. p. 277 (1352)........ Cape Colony. lanidorsa, Guen. Noct. i. p. 283 (1852).... Cape Colony. pallidula, Wik. Melliss’ St. Helena, p. 183 (1875). St. Helena. vetusta, Wik. xxxii. p. 691 (1865). Type lost. Canada. azif, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). ROM MNC ACEO CLEP EU Ee) 5-0 6 6 ass ale ot sais New York. numa, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). PREEOURRCATIULACOIG Pm vieje)e av .cie + 0+ 2 0% Washington. atha, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. 1. p. 6 (1898). Feltia near vancouverensts.... 16.2 eeee Washington. Iv. 2x 666 NOCTUID™®. Agrotis annir, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). Putco ich: WOE ee ae ee Colorado. » argo, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). Huwoa near fe she itd Sie Pao eal Ode AE Colorado. » Colla, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). Fuuoa near pallipennis . ..35...<..6000- Colorado. » abar, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. ii. p. 5 (1899). Hawa near decolor ssc wt Ave sie hanes Colorado. » achor, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. ii. p. 5 (1899). nog Mean icons Aa ak Sdaye «oer, oases wie Colorado. » agema, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. ba ll. p. d (1899). Eucoa near plagigera .......ces00ss . Colorado. » alko, Streck. Lep. R hop. & Het. Suppl. ii. oe d (1899). EAiroe MEAL MESsONIG Tce eo es ee ee Colorado. » gian, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 6 (1898). PEREGO NS Sal hese The Pa Sea eae Oe We EES. Arizona. » aprcalis, Herr.-Schiff. Corr.-Blatt Regensb. 1868, p. 149. Cuba. », submuscosa, Herr.-Schiiff. Corr.-Blatt Regensb. 1868, p. 149. Cuba. faticana, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 85 (1894). ? Feltia. Bolivia. P achnobia roosta, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 203 (1903). Alaska, Feltia obliqua, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxv. p. 129 (1903) .. Canada. », hudsonii, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 130 (1908) .. Canada. Noctua rumen, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 128 (1903)... Canada. » brenna, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 8396 H (1782). ? Agrotis. Surinam. » imtermixta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 837 (1852). Hab. ignotus. » dmidiata, Phil. Linn. Ent, xiv. p, 293 (1860). Chili. Ufeus faunus, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 9 (1898). New Mexico. Lihynchagrotis niger, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xi. p. 3 (1908). Washington. a meta, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xi. p. 3 (19038). California. Abayrotis ornatus, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 4 (1903), Br. Columbia. Eueretagrotis inattenta, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. xi. p. 5 (1903). Canada. Epilecta albidata, Wik. xxxili. 708 (1865). Type lost. Hab. ignotus. SUPPLEMENT. 666 a SUPPLEMENT. September 10th, 1903. ———. Page 35. 42, Chloridea albidentina insert Poaphila turbata, Wlk. xiv. 1834 (1858); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 260, which has precedence. Page 101. *163a. Melicleptria melibaphes. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 17.) Melicleptria melibaphes, Turner, ined, do. Head and tegule orange; thorax ochreous greyish; ab- domen ochreous. Fore wing uniform ochreous greyish, the costal edge orange. Hind wing pale ochreous. Underside of fore wing orange-yellow, the discal area suflused with fuscous. Hab. Quernstanp, Thursday I., type tT ¢ in Coll. Turner. Exp. 20 millim. Page 344. 610 a. Feltia hudsoni. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 19.) Feiltia hudsoné, Smith, Can, Ent. xxxv. p. 180 (1908), . Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with pale brown ; tegule with ill-defined blackish medial line; patagia with some black scales on upper edge; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the last tinged with ochreous. Fore wing violaceous grey, suffused with pale brown except below costa to beyond middle, on inner area, and between postmedial and subterminal lines; subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa and an inwardly oblique striga from cell, defined by white on outer side; antemedial line represented by a black line from median nervure to vein 1, defined by white on inner side; clavi- form very elongate, defined by black; orbicular grey defined by black, V-shaped, open above; reniform ochreous defined by black ; postmedial line defined by the contrast between the brown and grey areas and with some small dentate black marks before it at middle, bent outwards below costa, excuryed to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of small dentate black marks, angled outwards on veins 7, 4, 3; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with ochreous line at base, Hind wing ochreous white, the termen tinged with brown. Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley Dod), 1 2. Exp. 32 millim. VOL. IY. Dl dee 666 6 NOCTUIDE. Page 348. 616 a. Feltia obliqua. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 20.) Feltia obliqgua, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 129 (1903). 3. Head ochreous brown; sides of palpi and frons blackish; tegule ochreous at base, with black medial line and grey tips; thorax grey slightly mixed with brown, the patagia with slight black edges; tibiz and tarsi blackish, ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown, irrorated with grey below. Fore wing grey with a slight purplish tinge, the medial costal area rather darker; sub- basal line represented by two black points on costa; the ante- medial line black slightly defined by grey on inner side, minutely waved from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and very strongly outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform small, grey defined by black, the former produced to a slight point on outer side, the latter with black streak in discal fold from it to the postmedial line, which is black, double at costa, then the outer line indistinct, dentate, very slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sub- terminal line indistinct, whitish, defined by slight dentate black marks before it at middle and prominent ones beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3; a dark line near base of cilia. Hind wing uniform brownish grey; the cilia grey, with a brown line near base; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canava, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley Dod), 1 gS. Exp. 36 millim. ; Page 448. 765 a. Agrotis merens. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 18.) ee aio Staud. Iris, ix. p. 365, pl. 4. f.3 (1896); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p- ¢. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tegule with the basal half blackish ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing blackish, suffused with purplish grey; the subbasal line represented by double black strie from costa and median nervure; the antemedial line slightly waved, excurved above inner margin; claviform well developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by the cell before and between them and the area from the latter to postmedial line being black, the orbicular open above; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by an indistinct series of small dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown, rather paler in cell; the underside pale except costal and terminal areas; a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab, Moncotta, Urga, Sajan, 1 g. xp. 38 millim, SUPPLEMENT. 666¢ Page 585. Genus APHARETRA. Type. Apharetra, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 368 (1901), non OSI eee retain coc chiccs oot eebcsweeceeiseesetetscsies AAgnOODKE . dentata, Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with rough hair; frons smooth; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; antenne of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with rough scales and hair, the prothorax with spreading crest ; mid and hind tibix spined towards extremities; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing rather narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle, 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, Differs from Jsochlora in the thorax being clothed with scales and hair. A. Fore wing grey-brown; hind wing yellowish, the terminal area IDROGA. coscsnadboogaddenob20snpsupDodboaueHeboD6000000000 DooseacsadsdoLaact dentata. B. Fore wing black mixed with grey; hind wing fuscous ............ pyralis, 1019 a. Apharetra dentata. (Plate LXXVIIL. fig. 21.) Apatela dentata, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 222 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. NEPA pom. go. Head and thorax grey-brown ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing grey, suffused and irrorated with brown, especially beyond the reniform and on medial part of terminal area; the subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa; the antemedial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then irregularly waved; orbicular and reniform greyish, the former very ill defined, the latter rather large and defined by black; postmedial line minutely dentate, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some pale points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line very indistinct and somewhat dentate, defined by a brown shade on its inner side at costa and obscured by the brown patch on medial part of terminal area; a terminal series of small blackish lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing yellowish, the terminal area suffused with brown; the cilia whitish, with a brown line through them; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. Hab. Canava; U.S.A., Eastern and Northern States, 1 ¢ type, Adirondack Mts, wp. 34 millim. *1019 6. Apharetra pyralis. (Plate LXXVIILI. fig. 22. Acronycta pyralis, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vii. p. 26 (1896) ; Dyar, Cat. N. Am. Lep. p. 105. 2. Head and thorax black mixed with grey; tarsi ringed with grey; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with grey, Fore wing 666 & NOCTUIDZ. black irrorated with grey, the lines defined by grey; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold angled outwards below costa ; the antemedial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then irregularly waved; orbicular and. reniform slightly defined by black, the former round; postmedial line dentate, very strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved; subterminal line hardly traceable; a blackish patch on medial part of terminal area; some slight terminal black points; cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing fuscous, brownish towards base; the cilia white, with a brown line through them ; the underside brownish grey irrorated with fuscous, a curved post- medial line. Hab. Canapa, Alberta, Calgary, in Coll. Wolley Dod. Exp. 34 millim, ALPHABETICAL INDEX, [Synonyms are printed in éa/ics. | Abagrotis, 622. abar (Agrotis), 666. abdita (Agrotis), 458. aberrans (Heliothis), 101. aberrans (Melicleptria), 101. alnormis ( Agrotis), 323. abnormis (Euxoa), 323, absida (Copablepharon), 118. dbsidum (Ablepharon), 118. accipiter (Kpilecta), 622. accipiter (Spintherops), 622. acclivis (Agrotis), 319. acclivis (Huxoa), 319. acesias (Heliothis), 41. acetina (Agrotis), 409. acetosellxs (Mythinmna), 609. acetoselle (Noctua), 609. acetoselle, var. eremicola (Noctua), 609. achromatica(Lycophotia), 518. achor (Agrotis), 666. acmophora (Actinotia), 126. acornis (Carneades), 233. acornis (Kuxoa), 233. Actebia, 514. Actinotia, 122. acuminifera (Euxoa), 215. acuminifera (Hadenca), 215. acutifrons (Carneades), 306. acutifrons (Huxoa), 306. acutilinea( Lygranthecia), 2 acutilinea (Schinia), 82. acydonta (Micragrotis), 152. VOL. IV, adaucta (Heliothis), 40. Adelphagrotis, 612. aden (Rhododipsa), 60. Adisura, 119. Adita, 579. admirationis (Agrotis), 173. admirationis (Euxoa), 173. Adonisea, 15. adorea (Leucania), 550, adorea (Lycophotia), 350. adsequa (Noctua), 386. adumbrata (Agrotis), 221. adumbrata (Euxoa), 221. /Kdophron, 54. encipennis (Agrotis), 350. geneipennis (Feltia), 350. equa, ab. philippsi (Noe- tua), 36. equa (Noctua), 536. equalis (Agrotis), 204. e@quicuspis (Agrotis), 190, 334, zquicuspis (EHuxoa), 190, 334, 660. eramen (Dianthecia), 992. wrugo (Adisura), 121. erugo (Thalpochares), 121. aethes (Agrotis), 335. aethes (Huxoa), 335, agalina (Agrotis), 459. agama (Agrotis), 470. agathina ( Agrotis), 644. agathina (Huretagrotis), 644, agema (Agrotis), 666. agilis (Agrotis), 348, agrestis (Huxoa), 313. agricola ( Agrotis), 253. Agronoma, 159. Agrotine, 5. Agrotiphila, 131. Agrotis, 563. Agrotis, 153. Ala, 10. ala ( Agrotis), 569. alabame (Anicla), 555. alaina (Agrotis), 503. alaina (Mpisilia), 503. Alaria, 59. alarioides ie alarioides (Timora), 111. alaseze (Agrotiphila), 132, alaske (Agrotis), 133. alba (Copablepharon), 119. (Leucania), albafascia (Schinia), 86. albatis ( Agrotis), 33. albalis (Euxoa), 335, albicilia (Timora), 115. albicosta (Agrotis), 320. albicosta (Huxoa), 320. albidata (Hpilecta), 666. albidentina (Chloridea), 35. albidentina (Perigea), 35. albifrons (Hugraphe), 502. albifurca (Agrotis), 488. abimacula (Agrotis), 617. albimacula ( Graphi- phora), 644. albinasus ( Perigea), 165. albipalpis (Hadena), 165. albipennis (Agrotis), 286, 408. albipennis ( Cosmia), 408. albipennis (Huxoa), 286. albiseriata (Timora), 107. albivenata (Agrotis), 318. athivitta (Isachlora), 129. album (Arsilonche,, 119. aay, 668 albuncula (Anomogyna), HO2: albuncula (Cymatophora), 592. aleucis (Schinia), 78. aleucis (Tricopis), 78. aleurota (Canthylidia), 101. aleurota (Melicleptria), 101. alexandrensis (Agrotis), SPA alko (Agrotis), 666. alpestris ( Chersotis), 547. alpestris (Lycophotia), p47. alphea (Phalena-noctua), 42. alpherakit (Agrotis), 318. alpicola (Heaena), 468. alpigena (Agrotis), \74. alpina (Agrotis), 468. adternata (Noctua), 637. alternata (Lriphina), 637. altes (Agrotis), 525. alticola (Agrotis), 276. alticola (Huxoa), 276. amaryllis (Heliophana), amasina (Agrotis), 245. amatura (Agrotis), 552. amaurodes (Agrotis), 650. amaurodes (Proteuxoa), 650. ambigua (Spelotis), 315. ambrosioides (Agrotis), 536. americana (Huxoa), 186. americana (Luperina), 186. amicta ( Orthosia), 6O4. amina (Hpisilia), O13. amina (Leueania), 513. Ammoconia, 602. Ammogrotis, 467. anenu (Agrotis), 328. amoena (Huxoa), 528. amphora (Orosagrotis), 135. ampla (Noctua), 488. amurensis (Agrotis), 172. anachoreta (Anarta), 497. anachoreta (pisilia), 497. anarmodia 665. anchocelioides (Cerastis), 638. (Agrotis), ALPHABETICAL INDEX. anchocelioides (Tri- pheena), 638. andereggii (Agrotis), anderssoni (Aqrotis), 405. aneituma (Agrotis), 164. angulifera (Agrotis), 536. annexa (Agrotis), 354. annexa (Feltia), 354, 662. annir (Agrotis), 666. annularis (Agrotis), 450. annularis (Axylia), 450, annulipes (Agrotis), 268. annulipes (Huxoa), 268. Anomogyna, 588. anteposita (Agrotis), 354. Anthecia, 15. antiqua (Hicomorpha), 593. antiqua (Xestia), 595. Anytus, 585. aphe (Agrotis), 267. apicalis (Agrotis), 321, 666. apicalis (Huxoa), 321, Aplecta, 612. Aplectoides, 580. apposita (Agrotis), 616. apposita (Kurois), 616. approximata (Lygran- thoecia ?), 68. approximata (Schinia), 68. aquilina (Agrotis), 179. aquilina (Noctua), 22. aquilonaris (Hadena), 468. ar (Lygrantheecia ?), 64. ar (Scehinia), G4. aratrix (Aminoconia), 598. araucaria (Euxoa), 182. arcigera (Anthecia), 92. arcigera (Schinia), 92. arctica (Hadena), 580. arctica (Schoyenia), 181. arefacta (Schinia), 85. arcfacta. ( Tamia), 85. arenicola (Agrotis), 161. arentvolans (Agrotis), 162. arenivolans (Huxoa), 162. arenosa (Agrotis), 665. arenosa ( Opigena), 358. argillacea (Kicomorpha), 502: argillacea (Episilia), 502 aristifera (Agrotis), 177. armena ( Agrotis), 184. armena (Euxoa), 184. armiger (Heliothis), 41. armigera (Chloridea), 45, 657. armigera (Noctua), 45. artaxoides (Pradatta), 116. artaxoides (Timora), 116. arvensis (Noctua), 412. ashworthi —_(Episilia), 511. ashworthii (Agrotis), 511. aspera (Hetopatria), 654. aspera (Hadena), 654. aspersa (Lycophotia), 562. aspersa (Spodoptera), 562. Aspila, 34. assimulans (Noctua), 458. associans (Mamestra), 067, assulta (Chloridea), 47. assulta (Heliothis), 47. astricta (Hurois), 531. astricta (Lycophotia), atcinsoni (Adisura), 120. atha (Agrotis), 665. atkinsont (Adisura), 120. atomaris ( Agrotis), 221. atomaris (Huxoa), 221. atricincta (Lyeophotia), D008. atricincta (Noctua), 558. atrifera (Agrotis), 300. atrifera (Huxoa), 300. atrifrons (Agrotis), 448. epee (Lycophotia), 562. atristriata (Lycophotia), 514. atristrizata 586. atristrigata (Carneades), 213. atristrigata (Huxoa), 218. atristrigatus (Anytus), 586. atritegulata (Agrotis), 304. atrofusca (Carneades), 222. atrofusca (Euxoa), 222. atropulverea (Carneudes), 207. atropulverea (Euxoa), 297. atro-purpurea (Agrotis), 285. atrovirens 6ll. (Anytus), (Diphtera), atrovirens (Neurois), 611. attenta (Agrotis), 647. attenta (Euretagrotis), 647. aucta (Agrotis), 457. audentis (Carneades), 237. audentis (Euxoa), 237. augur (Agrotis), 458. augur (Noctua), 458. augur, var. grandis (Agro- tis), 458. aulacias (Agrotis), 352. aulacias (Feltia), 352. aureola (Leucania), 107. aureola (Timora), 107. aureolum (Agrotis), 368. aurorina (Simyra), d4. aurulenta (Agrotis), 373. austalea (Agrotis), 282. austalea (EKuxoa), 282. austera (Noctua), 455. autumnalis (Agrotis), 444. auxiliaris (Agrotis), 311. auxiliaris (Huxoa), 311. aucxiliarés, var. agrestis, (Agrotis), 313, aversa (Agrotis), 167. axiliodes (Euxoa), 308. axylides (Micragrotis), 150. azif (Agrotis), 665. badicollis (Ammaconia), 613. badinodis (Agrotis), 364. baileyana ( Agrotis), 580. baja (Agrotis), 403. baja (Noctua), 403. baja, var. punctata (Noc- tua), 4038. bajula (Agrotis), 403. balba (Lygranthecia), 84. balba (Schinia), 84. balinitis (Agrotis), 312. balinitis (Huxoa), 312. baliopa (Agrotis), 188. baliopa (Euxoa), 188. barbara (Noctua), 43. bartholemica (Graphi- phora), 999. hasalis (Agrotis), 280. dasalis (Euxoa), 280. basiclavis (Agrotis), 393. hasiflava (Agrotis), 279. basiflava (Huxoa), 279. basigramma (Agrotis), 298. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, basigramma (Huxoa), 298. basinotata (Mamestra), 164. basistriga (Agrotis), 427. basistriga (Graphiphora), 497. bawert (Agrotis), 165. beata (Agrotis), 567. beatrix (Pradatta), 114. beatrix (Timora), 114. belfragei (Lhynchagrotis), 640. belfragei 640. hella (Noctua), 419. belladonna (Dysvenemis), 9 (Triphena), belladonna (Melicleptria), 24. bergensis (Noctua), 386. Bessula, 72. bicarnea (Agrotis), 397. bicarnea (Noctua), 397. bielavis (Agrotis), 215. bielavis (Euxoa), 213. bicollaris (Agrotis), 218. bicoilaris (Euxoa), 218. bicolor (Agrotis), 469. bicolor (Episilia), 469. biconica (Agrotis), 177. bicuspida(Lygranthecia), 66. bicuspida (Schinia), 72. hifascia (Lygranthecia), ry) bifuscia (Schinia), 72. bifasciata (Agrotis), 248. bifasciata (Euxoa), 243. biformis (Lycophotia), 536. biformis 556. bifurea (Agrotis), 665. bigramma (Noctua), 455. bilitura (Agrotis), 290. bilitura (Huxoa), 290. bilix (Agrotis), 665, bimaculata (Agrotis), (Mentaxya), bimaculata (Pradatta), 109. bimaculata (Timora), 109. bimarginalis (Agrotis), 654, bimarginalis (Triphzena), G54. bimatris (Lygrantheecia), re bimatris (Pippona), 62. 669 hina (Anthecia), 13. bina (Heliephana), 18. hinominalis ( Agrotis), 631. bipars ( Agrotis), 368. bipartita (Agrotis), 664. bipartita (Buciara), 126. birivia (Huxoa), 234. birivia (Noctua), 234, 506. hbisagittata (Agrotis), 677. bistrigata (Agrotis), 487. bistrigata (Episilia), 487. bitriangula (Agrotis), 553. bitriangula (Lycophotia), 553. biundulata (Schinia), 81. bivittata (Leucania), 115. bivittata (Timora), 113. blanchardit (Agrotis), 181 blanda (Choephora), 608. blanda (Mythimna), 608. boetica (Huxoa), 157. boetica (Heliophobus), 157. bogdanovi (Euxoa), 186. hogdanovi (Leucania), 186. hoisduvalii (Heliothis), 35. bollit (Agrotis), 472 bolteri (Agrotis), 414. boltert (Noctua), +14. bombycia (Hadena), 159. bonsa (Agrotis), 437. bonza (Agrotis), 437. borealis (Dysocnemis), 24. borealis (Hadena), 491. borneensis (Agrotis), 330. bostoniensis (Agrotis), 235. bostoniensis (Huxoa), 235. brachypecten (Agrotis), 185. brachypecten (Euxoa), 185. brachystria (Porosagro- tis), 148. brenna (Noctua), 666. brevipennis (Agrotis), 208. brevipennis (Huxoa), 208. brevirami (Agrotis), 253. brevirami (Kuxoa), 203, brevis (Anthecia), 67. brevis (Lygranthcecia), 67. brevis, var. atrites (An- thecia), 67. breviuscula 409. brocha (Agrotis), 244. brocha (Euxoa), 244. 2x2 (Orthosia), 670 Brotis, 153. brucei (Schinia), 87. brunnea (Agrotis), 412. brunnea (Noctua), 412. brunneago (Hiptelia), 597. brunneago (Richia), 597. brunneicollis (Noctua), 629. brunneicollis (Triphzena), 629. brunneigera (Agrotis), ) brunneigera (Euxoa), 269. brunneipennis (Agrotis), 633. brunnescens (Lycopho- tia), 575. Bueiara, 126. budensis (Noctua), 419. butleri (Lycophotia). 561, butleri (Mentaxya), 561. eecimacula (Mythimna), 606. cecimacula ( Noctua). 606. celchs (Agrotis), 603. celebs (Mythimna), 603. cenis (Agrotis), 254. eenis (Euxoa), 254. esia (Euxoa), 305. cesius (Carneades), 305. caffra (Porosagrotis), 658. calamaria (Curubasa), 116. calgary (Agrotis), 417. calgary (Noctua), 417. californica(Pyracleptria), 25); californicus 21. caliginea (Graphiphora), 455, campestris ( Agrotis), 284. cana (Raghuva). 31, canariensis ( Agrotis), 188. cinariensis (Euxoa), 188. cencellata (Noctua), 539. (Heliothis), candelarum (Agrotis), dL. candelarum (Hpisilia), 511. candelisequa (Lycopho- tia), 551. candelisequa (Noctua), 239, 511, 551. candida (Agrotis), 570. candida ( Carneades), 216. candida (Huxoa), 216. canescens (Graphiphora), 423. ALVHABETICAL INDEX, canescens (Xylina), 654. Canidia, 15. canities (Feltia), 355, canities (Peridroma), 3595. Canthylidia, 97. canusina (Canthylidia), 100. canusina 100. cannistis (Agrotis), 446. capnoptera ( Agrotis), 431. Caradrina, 363. caradrinoides (Agrotis), 571. caradrinoides (Lycopho- tia), 571. carbonea (Noctua), 249. carbonifera ( Agrotis), 356. cardui (Heliothis), 18. cardui (Noctua), 18. cardui, var. purpurata (Heliothis), 18. eariosa (Euxoa), 276. cariosus ( Carneades), 276. carissima (Agrotis), 634. earissima (‘Tripheena), 634. carminosa (Schinia), 90. carnea (Noctua), 4138, 488. carnea (Richia), 599. larneades. 158. carnica (Agrotis), 468. carthalina (Agrotis), 665, cashmirensis (Orosagro- tis), 156. castanea (Agrotis), 377. castanea (Noctua), 377 castra (Episilia), 512. eastra (Leucania), 512. catalaunensis (Aporo- phila), 183. cataleuca (Noctua), 505. catenifera (Agrotis), 455. catenula (Agrotis), 146. catenula (Porosagrotis), 146. catherina (Matuta), 614. caucasica (Agrotis), 664. cecilia (Hermonassa), 308. celebrata (Agrotis), 527. celeris (Heliothis), 16. celeris (Melicleptria), 16. celsicola (Agrotis), 332. celsicola (Euxoa), 332. centralis (Agrotis), 266. ceramophea (Ayrotis), a9?" ceramophza (Hpisilia), 492. (Melicleptria), eerasina (Noctua), 377 cerastivides (Agrotis), 430. cerastioides (Graphi- phora), 430. Cerastis, 602. cermesina (Lycophotia), 526. ceropachoides (Agrotis), 74. ceropachoides (Euxoa), 174. cerrvillei (Enxoa), 264. certificata (Agrotis), 167. cervina (Agrotis), 432. cervina (Mythimna), 432. cespitis (Agrotis), 248. chaldaica (Lycophotia), chaldaica (Noctua), 54 chalybeata (Gane 360. chanzyi (Anthecia), 17. chanzyi (Heliothis), 17. characterea (Noctua), 407. characteristica (Agrotis), 665. chardinyi (Anarta) 497. chardinyi (Rhynchagro- tis) 648. chardinyt 648. Chariclea, 52. charmione (Phalena), 43. Chersotis, 364. ( Triphena), chersotoides (Agrotis), 425, 426. chersotoides (Apamea), 425. chilensis (Chloridea), 48. chilensis (Mesembreu- xoa), 137, ehionanthi (Adita), 579 chionanthi (Phalena), 579. Chloantha, 122. Chloridea, 54. Chlorocleptria, 50. chloroptera (Isochlora), 128. chloroptera 128. Choephora, 467. choris (Agrotis), 265. choris ( Carneades), 231. choris (Euxoa), 265. Chorizagrotis, 153. chortalis (Aqgrotis), 598. chortalis (Richia), 598. chretieni (EKuxoa), 163. christophi (Aqrotis), 179. (Nonagria), christophi (Euxoa), 179. chrysella (Schinia), 77. chrysellus (Tricopis), 77. cicatricosa (Agrotis), 209, 664. cicatricosa (Huxoa), 205. ciliata (Sehinia), 77. cinchonina (Agrotis), 173. cinchonina (Euxoa), 173. vinctipennis (Agrotis), 424. cinctipennis (Apamea), 424, cinctithorax (Agrotis), 454, cinctithorax 454. cineraria (Spelotis), 290. (Hadena), cinerascens — (Mpisilia), 494. cinerascens (Pachnobia), 404. cinerea (Episilia), 490. cinerea (Euxoa), 174. cinerea (Noctua), 174. cinerea (Pachnobia), 490. cinereicollis (Agrotis), 449, cinercomacula 290. cinereopallida (Euxoa), 660. (Agrot is), cincreopallidus (Carne- ades), 660. circumdata (Agrotis), 339. circumdata (Feltia), 339. cirghisa (Euxoa), 326. cissigma (Agrotis), 372. cissigma (Noctua), 372. cistella (Canthylidia), 98. cistella (Melicleptria), 93. citillus (Agrotis), 500. citricolor (Agrotis), 227. citricolor (EKuxoa), 227. citrinellus (Heliothis), 50. citrinellus (Oxylos), 50. Cladocerotis, 138. cladota (Melicleptria), 98. cladotus (Heliocheilus), 98. clandestina (Noctua), 441. clandestina, var. havile ( Agrotis), 460. clara (Agrotis), 327. clara (Kuxoa), 527. clarivena (Agrotis), 373. clava (Graphiphora), 361. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, clava (Hermonassa), 361. claviforimis (Agrotis), 479. clavis (Noctua), 170. cleiducha (Huxoa), 322. cleiducha (Pleonectopoda), 322. clemens (Agrotis), 462. clerica (Agrotis), 396. clerica (Feltia), 3856. cloanthoides (Agqrotis), 330). clodiana (Agrotis), 350. c-nigruim (Agrotis), 389. c-nigrum (Amathes), 391. c-nigrum (Noctua). 389. cochrani (Agrotis), 256. celebs (Agrotis), 440. coercita (Lygranthacia), 83. coercita (Schinia), 83. cofrensis (Carneades), 518. cofrensis (Lycophotia), 518. cogitans (Agrotis), 269. cognata (Heliothis), 18, cognata (Noctua), 18. cognita (Agrotis), 193. cognita (Euxoa), 193. cohesa (Agrotis), 419. colata (Agrotis), 278. colata (Euxoa), 278. colima ( Carneades), 484. colima (Kpisilia), 484. colla (Agrotis), 666. collari (Agrotis), 899. collaris (Agrotis), 888. collina (Agrotis), 435, collina (Noctua), 435. collocata (Carneades), 214. collocata (Euxoa), 214. colorado (Agrotiphila), [54. comes (Agrotis), 386. comes (Noctua), 386 communicata (Orthosia), 409. comosa (Agrotis), 244. comosa (Kuxoa), 244, comparata (Agrotis), 582, dds. conupressipennis ades), 291. compressipennis (Huxoa), 291. compta (Agrotis), 409. compta (Graphiphora), 409. cona (Agrotis), 262. ( Carne- 671 cona (Euxoa), 262. conchidia (Hadena), 565. conchidia (Luycuphotia), d69. conchis (Agrotis), 401. conchulu (Heliothis). 77. concinna (Lygranthcia), 63. concinna (Noctua), 524, concinna (Schinia), 65. condita (Aplecta), 585. condita (Aplectoides), 585. conferta (Heliothis), 45. coufertissima (Leucunia), ol. confertissima (Raghuva), 3l. confinis (Agrotis), 457. conflua (Noctua), 491. contluxa (Agrotis), 665. conformis (Agrotis), 568. conformis (Lycophotia), 568. confracta (Agrotis), 256. confusa (Agrotis), 233, 632, confusa (Euxoa), 238. confusa (Tripheena), 632. congener (Noctua), 491. cougrua (Agrotis), 529, 669. congrua (Lycophotia), 529. conifera (Agrotis), 258. coniorta (Agrotis), 453. coniotis (Agrotis), 426. conjuncta (Actinotia), 126. conjuncta (Carneades), 263. conjuncta (Chloantha ?), 125. conjuncta (Huxoa), 26%. consanguinea (Agrotis), 396. consang uwined ( Ochro- pleura), 396. consenescens — (Agrotis), 403. consentanea 366, consequa (Noctua), 385. consignata(Hermorassa), 560. conspicua (Kuxoa), 253. conspicua (Noctua), 253, conspurcata( Agrolis), 167. constantt (Agroatis), 484. constanti (Episilia), 484. (Agrotis), 672 constricta (Anarta), 182. constricta (Lygranthoe- cia), 68. consueta ( Agrotis), 358. contagionis (Carneades), 232. contagionis (Euxoa), 232. contaminata phora), 620. contaminata (Nenia), 620. (Graphi- contracta (Microphysa), 69. Copablepharon, 118. copiosa (Heliothis), 27. copiosa (Pseudotamila), 21. coppeni (Xestia), 593. coppingeri (Episilia), 712. coppingert (Pachnobdia), 472. coquimbensis (Euxoa), 85 cora (Heliothis), 26. cora (Pyracleptria), 26. coraxa (Rusine), 662. cordata (Agrotis), 164. coreta (Anthecia), 26. cornuta (Metalepsis), 462. cornuta 462. correcta (Agrotis), 167. corrosa (Agrotis), 239. corticea (Kuxoa), 172. corticea (Noctua), 172. coryphea (Agrotis), 603. coryphea (Mythimna), 603. cos (Noctua), 267. costeestriga (Agrotis), 396 JV. (Pachnobia), costalis (Agrotis), 378, 665. costalis 405. costata (Agrotis), 438, 6381. costata (Triphena), 631. costigera (Agrotis), 566. costigera (Lycophotia), 566, coturnicula (Agrotis), 482. coturnicula (Episilia), 482. cramboides (Leucanta), 99 (Ochropleura), eran boidea(Melicleptria), 99. ALPHABETICAI. INDEX. erassa (Huxoa), 155. crassa (Noctua), 155. crassilinea (Agrotis), 175. crassilinea (Euxoa), 175. cremata (Euyoa), 191. cremata (Spelotis), 191. erenilinea (Eupanychis), SP crenilinea (Schinia), 95. crenulata (Agrotis), 630. crenulata (‘riphena), 630, erinigera (Agrotis), 409. erinigera (Spelotis), 409. crotchii (Heliothis), 85. cruentata (Curubasa), 112. cruentata (Timora), 112. culminicola (Agrotis), 241. culminicola (Euxoa), 241. eumatilis (Huleucyptera), 76. cumatilis (Schinia), 76. cumulata (Diphtera), 552. cungessi (Episilia), 485. cupes (Heliothis), 85. cupes (Schinia), 85. cupida (Noctua), 688. cupidissima (Agrotis), 639. cupidissima (Rhynch- agrotis), 640. cupidissima (‘Triphaena), 639. cuprea (Episilia), 499. euprea (Gertyna), 655. cuprea (Noctua), 499. cuprea (Protagrotis), 655. cuprina (Agrotis), 531. euprina (Hermonassa), 357. euprina ddl. currens (Agrotis), 248. cursoria (Euxoa), 248. cursoria (Phalena), 248. cursoriodes (Huxoa), 226. curta (Dorika), 107. Curubasa, 103. curviplena (Orthosia), 6. (Lycophotia), curviplena (Richia), 596. eycladum (Agrotis), 267. cynica (Agrotis), 428. cynica (Noctua), 428. Cyrebia, 467. cystiphora (Anthacia), 37. cystiphora (Chloridea), oT. dacota (Huxoa), 244, dedala (Acronycta), 247. deedala (Euxoa), 247. dedalus (Porosagrotis), 140. dahli (Agrotis), 423. dahlii (Noctua), 423. dakota (Carneades), 244. dalei (Agrotis), 483. dalmata (Agrotis), 504. dapsilis (Agrotis), 372. dargo (Agrotis), 666. darollesi (Chariclea), 58. Dasypoudeea, 51. decempunctata (Noctua), 370. decepta 608. decernens (Agrotis), 354. decipiens (Agrotis), 552, 597. declarans (Agrotis), 182. declarata (Mamestra), 285. decolor (Agrotis), 284, ene OUZ, (Pseudoglea), deeolor (Euxoa), 284. decora (Euxoa), 240. decora (Noctua), 240. decorans (Agrotis), 494. decorata (Agrotis), 664. decorata (Epilecta), 626. decorata (Pradatia), \06. decorata (Timora), 106. decussa (Agrotis), 287. defessa (Agrotis), 664, defuncta (Agrotis), 548. degenerata (Agrotis), 391. degeniata (Agrotis), 548. degeniata (Lycophotia), 548. dejeani (Chloridea), 40. dejeant (Heliothis), 40. deleta (Agrotis), 893. delicia (Heliothis), 121. delphini (Chariclea), 52. delphinii (Noctua), 52. demutabilis (Lycophotia), 537. demutabilis (Peridroma), 537. denticulata (Lycophotia), 533 denticulata( Ochropleura), 533. denticulosa (Agrotis), 167, 330. denticulesa (Euxoa), 267. denticulosa (Noctua), 267. deparca (Mythinna), 480. depicta (Curubasa), 111. deplana (Agrotis), 444. deplana (Noctua), 444. deplanata (Agrotis), 444. deplorata (Agrotis), 461. deprivata (Agrotis), 290. depuncta (Agrctis), 402. depuncta (Noctua), 402. deraiota (Agrotis), 391. descripta (Agrotis), 411, 423. descripta (Noctua), 411. deserta (Agrotis), 184. deserticola (Agrotis), 527. desertorum (Agrotis), 527. designata (Euclidia), 69. desilit (Agrotis), 527. destituta (Episilia), 495 destituta (Graphiphora), 493. detersa ( Chareas), 229. detersa (Huxoa), 229, detesta (Carneades), 231. detesta (Kuxoa), 251. detorta (Agrotis), 293. devota ( Ayrotis), 573. devota (Lycophotia), 573. dewitzi (Agrotis), 664. diana (Lycophotia), 562. diana ( Ochropleura), 562. dianthecie (Agrotis), 228. diantheciz (Euxoa), 223. Diarsia, 363. Dichagyris, 364. diducta (Cerastis), 491. differens (Agrotis), 314, 565. differens 560. difficilis (Agrotis), 318. difficilis (Euxoa), 318. difformis (Carneddes), 259. difformis (Euxoa), 259. diffusa (Schinia), 79. digitalis (Schinia), 71. digna ( Agrotis), 558. digna (Hpisilia), 476. digna (Lycophotia), 558. digna (lraddea), 476. digramma (Agrotis), 556. dilatata (Hypoxestia), 600. dilatata, (Mesogona), 600. dilucida (Agrotis), 517, 615. dimidia (Agrotis), 167. dimidiata (Noctua), 666. (Lycophotia), ALPHABETICAL INDEX. diplogramma (Hpisilia), 508. dipsacea (Chloridea), 40. dipsacea (Noctua), 40. dirempta (Agrotis), 665. dis (Grotella), 96. discalis (Raghuva), 31. discitineta (Bryophila), 582. discoidalis (Agrotis), 636. discoidalis (‘T'riphzna), 636. dislocata (Feltia), 351. dislocata (Leucania), 391. dispalata (Agrotis), 451. dispalata (Awylia), 451. displiciens (Mamestra), 256. dissociata (Agrotis), 471. dissociata (Hpisilia), 471. dissoluta (Noctua), 445. dissona (Agrotis), 274. dissona (Huxoa), 274. disteusa (Caradrina), 590. distichoides (Ammaconia), 598. distichoides 598. disticta (Timora), 111. distincta (Agrotis), 293. distincta (Chloridea), 48. : distinguenda (Agrotis), 179. distinguenda (Huxoa), 179. distracta( Rhynchagrotis), G4. ditrapezium (Agrotis), 400. ditrapezium 400, 407. divergens (Agrotis), 304. divergens (Authophila), G2: divergens (Huxoa), 504. dividens (Agrotis), 324. docilis (Agrotis), 376. dolis (Agrotis), 234. dolli (Porosagrotis), 141. dollit (Agrotis), 141. dolosa (Schinia), 85. domestica (Noctua), 295. domiduca (Phalena), 626. dora (Masalia), \O4. dora (Timora), LO-+4. Dorika, 103. dorsicinus (Agrotis), 160. dorsilutia (Anthecia), 66. (Richia), (Noctua), 673 dreuseni (Euxoa), 270. drewsent (Agrotis), 270. ducens (Keltia), 345, dulcis (Adisura), 119. dulcis (Agrotis), 664. dumosa (Polia), 573. duo-signa (Feltia), 350. Dysocnemis, 28. eestrigata (Agrotis), 662, Ectopatria, 652. ecvinacea (Lycophotia), 663. edda ( Agrotis), 379. edentata (Feltia), 544. edictalis (Caruneades), 173. edictalis (Euxoa), 173. edmondsi (Agrotis), 180. edmondsi (EKuxoa), 180. edmondsi (Stenagrotis), 139. edmondsii (Trachodo- palpus), 139. efflorescens ( Chera), 423. elllorescens (Triphiena), 625. efflorescens (Triphenop- sis), 625, effracta (Agrotis), 453. egregia (Noctua), 617. Hicomorpha, 595. elata (Lycophotia), 500. elata (Setagrotis), 580. electra (Agrotis), 571. electra (Lycophotia), o71. elegans (Lycophotia), 039. elegans (Noctua), 539. Elegarda, 153. elevata (Hpisilia), 488. elevata (Pachnobia), 408. elimata (Eurois), 615. elimata (Noctua), 613. elingua (Manruta), 663. elutior (Agrotis), 419. emarginata (Agrotis), 632. eminens (Graphiphora), 538. eminens 538. endogea (Agrotis), 1O1, endogeea (Wuxoa), 161. enteridis (Carneades), 275. enteridis (Euxoa), 275. eodora (Heliothis), 98. eodora (Melicleptria), 98. (Lycophotia), 674 epicremna (Aqrotis), 187. epicremna (Euxoa), 187. Epilecta, 620. epipyria (Euxoa), 525. Episilia, 467. eremicola (Agrotis), 326. eremicola (Huxoa), oe eremioides (Agrotis), 22 eremioides (HKuxoa), 207. -erice (Chersotis), 516. erice (Noctua), 524. eriensis (Agrotis), 418. Erithrophaia, 122. errans (Heliothis), 44. errans (Lygranthecia), 64. errans (Schinia), 64. erratica (Agrotis), 623. erratica (Triphzna), 623, erschoffi (Agrotis), 521. erschoffi (Lycophotia), 52). erubescens (Agrotis), 573. erubescens (Chera), 423. erubescens ( Orthosia), 423. eruta (Noctua), 293. erythrina (Agrotis), 535, erythrina (Lycophotia), 535. Erythrophea, 122. erythroxylea (Noctua), 183. esurialis (A grotis), 450. Eucoptoenemis, 463. eudoxia (Erythrophza), 122. eudoxia (Krythrophaia), 29. Hueretagrotis, 643. eugramma (Agrotis), 452. Eugraphe, 364.. Euleucyptera, 72. Eupanychis, 94. eurorides (Agrotis), 274. Eurois, 612. Huschesis, 622. Euxoa, 153. evanidalis (Agrotis), 340, evanidalis (Feltia), 340. evelina (Anytus), 585. evelina (Hadena), 5865. eversmanni (Hadenda), 513. exacta (Agrotis), 380. exacta (Huxoa), 330. exaltata (Melicleptria), 90. Evarnis, 153. excellens (Agrotis), 292, 538. excellens (Euxoa), 292. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, exclamans (Agrotis), 446. exclamationis (Feltia), 303. exelamationis (Noctua), excogita 218. excogita (Euxoa), sue exculta (See es 22: exculta (Kuxoa), 225 excusa (Noctua), 619. exigua (Agrotis), 177 eximia (Schinia), 657. eximius (Heliothis), 657 exoleta (Agrotis), 375. experta (Feltia), 356. experta (Laphygma), 356. expulsa (Mamestra), 256. (Carneades), exsertisigma (Agrotis), 632 exsertistigma (Agrotis), 651. exsertistigma(Triphiena), 651. extranca ( Agrotis), 243. extranea (Euxoa), 245. exuberans (Lycophotia), 566. exuberans (Noctua), 566. exusta (Agrotis), 413. exusta (Graphiphora), 413. exusta (Micragrotis), 149. faceta (Hpisilia), 479. faceta (Noctua), 479. factoris (Carneades), 29) factoris (Huxoa), 295. Jacula (Agrotis), 632. falelandica (Euxoa), 224. falerina (Carneades), 262. falerina (Euxoa), 262. fallax (Agrotis), 664. farinosa (Agrotis), 227 528. farinosa (Euxoa), 227, 661 farinosa 528. fastidiosa ( Heliothis), 65. fatidica (Kuxoa), 159. Jatidica (Noctua), 159. fatidicana Sasi) 665. Suuna (Agrotis), 2 fauna (Euxoa), 2 faunus ( Ufeus), 666. feildi (Heliothis), 116. feildi (Timora), 116. Jelicitata (Alaria), 57. felicitata (Rhodophora), 57. (Lycophotia), Feltia, 337. JSeniseca (Agrotis), & ae feniseca (Huxoa), 2 fennica (Agrotis), 488. ferina (Agrotis), ae Sernaldi (Agrotis), terruginescens peas 557. ferruginescens photia), 557. Ferruginescens, var. lucilla (Cerastis), 556. Serruginoides(Pachnobia), 485. fervens (Chloridea), 36. Servens (Heliothis), 36. JServida (Noctua), 167. festiva (Hpisilia), 491. JSestiva (Noctua), 491. fictilis (Noctua), 182, 293. fidelis (Lycophotia), 522. Jimbria (Noctua), 626. fimbria (Triphaena); 626. fimbriaris (Kucoptoene- mis), 464. Jimbriaris (Heliophobus), 464. ae gor (Lycophotia), (Lyco- Fie an (Noctua), 575, ‘finis (Agrotis), 219, finis (Euxoa), 219. fishi (Episilia), 490. fishit (Agrotis), 490. fissa (Agrotis), 660. fissa (Euxoa), 660. fissifascia (Timora), 110. flammatra (A grotis), 893. flammatra (Noctua), 393. flavia (Timora), 113. flavibrunnea (Agrotis), 422. flavibrunnea phora), 422 flavicaudata(Amphipyra), 601. flavicaudata (Paraxestia), OL (Graphi- flaviceps (Timora), 116. flavicollis (Agrotis), 318. flavicoliis (Huxoa), 318. flavicosta (Episilia), 489. flavicosta (Noctua), 489. jlavidens (Agrotis), 212. flayidens (Euxoa), 212. Alavina (Agrotis), 526. flavina (Lycophotia), 526. flavirena (Agrotis), 429. flavirena (Gr apple: 429. flavirosea (Timora), 111. flaviscapula (Carneades), 216 flaviscapula (Huxoa), 216. flavistrigata (Timora), 114. flavocarnea (Timora), 115. flavomaculata (Agrotis), 578. flavotincta (Agrotis), 434. flavotincta (Noctua), 434 Hlexilis (Agrotis), 313. flora (Grumia), 130. florentina (Noctua), 42. florida (Noctua), 419. florida (Rhodophora), 56 florigera (Agrotis), 287. focinus (Carneades), 664. Jeda (Agrotis), 293. Jeminalis (Carneades), 296. foeminalis (Euxoa), 296. forcipula (Huxoa), 380. Jorcipula (Noctua), 330. forficula (Agrotis), 664. formalis (Agrotis), 632. formals (Tripheena), 632. foveolatus (Heliothis), 36. Jragaria (Noctua), 412. fraterna (Agrotis), 172. Sriabilis (Agrotis), 249. friabilis (Euxoa), 249. Srigida (Agrotis), 472. frigida (Episilia), 472. frivola (Agrotis), 368. frontalis (Graphiphora), 480. Juchsii (Agrotis), 648. JSucosa (Agrotis), 167. fugax (Lycophotia), 569. Sugax (Noctua), 569. Julda ( Carneades), 230. fulda (Huxoa), 250. Suliginea (Noctua), 249. fumalis (Agrotis), 224). fumalis (Euxoa), 220. fumata (Leucania), 101. Jumicolor (Agrotis), 321. funicolor (Kuxoa), 321. Jumosa (Noctua), 249. funcei (Lycophotia), i) {9 me Tas JSunebris (Agrotis), 573. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. funebris (Fagitana), 564. funebris (Lycophotia), 564, fungorum (Chocphora), 473. fungorum 473, funket (Agrotis), 542. Surcifera (Agrotis), 556. furcisignata (Richia), 597. furtiva (Euxoa), 297. Surtivus (Agrotis), 297. Susca (Agrotis), 174. fuscigera (Euxoa), 267. Suscigerus (Agrotis), 267. fuscirufa (Lycophotia), 563. (Episilia), fuscostigma (Euret- agrotis), 647. Juscostigma (Noctua), 647. fuscovirens (Nonagria), 129. JSusimacula (Carneades), 305. fusimacula 305. (Euxoa), gagates (Agrotis), 223. gagates (Huxoa), 225. gaure (Phalena), 5d. gauree (Rhodophora), 5d. gaurax (Agrotis), 559. gaurax (lLycophotia), 559. gelida (Agrotis), 592. gelida (Anomogyna), 592. gelida, var. mevesi (Agrotis), 592. geniculata (Agrotis), 370. Georya, 153. gian (Agrotis), 666. gilvipennis (Agrotis), 649 gilvipennis (Rhynch- agrotis), 649. glacialis ( Orthosia), 468. gladiaria (Agrotis), 337. eladiaria (Feltia), 337. elareosa (Agrotis), 375. glareosa (Noctua), 375, 559. glaucescens (Agrotis), 331. glaucescens (Wuxoa), , Vv . 675 glaucimacula (Agrotis), 405. elebosa (Agrotis), 664. glis (Agrotis), 450. gloriosa (Heliothis), 89. . gloriosa (Schinia), 89. glottuloides (Agrotis), 428. glottuloides (Apamea), 428. golickei (Agrotis), 155. gothica, var. singularis (Noctua), 389. gracilenta (Schinia), 80. erefiana (Heliothis), 17. yrefiana (Melicleptria), 7 grammiptera (Hadena), nag. grandipennis (Agrotis), 540 grandipennis (Lyvopho- tia), 540. grandis (Adisura), 103. grandis (Atdophron), 118. grandis (Copablepharon), 118. Graphiphora, 363. graphiphorides (Tetra- pyryia), 165. graslini (Agrotis), 156. graslini (Euxva), 156. gravida (Agrotis), 469. gravida (Episilia), 469. gravis (Agrotis), 547. gravis (Feltia), 547. eriseivena (Agrotis), 429. griscola (Agrotis), 574. grisescens (Agrotis), 449. grisescens (Euxva), 239. grisescens (Noctua), 239. Grotella, 96. grumi (Hiptelia), 186. grumi (Lso-hlora), 130. Grumia, 180. grunceri (Orthosia), 607. gularis (Agrotis), 290. gypetina (Agrotis), 145. gypxtina (Porosagrotis), 143. hadjina (Agrotis), 572. hadjma (Lycophotia), 572. hematitedea (Noctua), 499. hesitans (Agrotis), 478. heesitans (Episilia), 478. 676 : hahni (Agrotis), 550. hahni (Lycophotia), 550. haife (Agrotis), 664. hanga (Lygrantheecia ?), 69 hanga (Schinia), 69. Hapalia, 514. haruspica (Agrotis), 458. hastifera (Agrotis), 179, 181 h: ae (Euxoa), 181. haverkampfi (Agyrotis), 664. havile (Agrotis), 460. Hebdomochondra, 117. hebreica (Noctua), 375. hebridicola (Agrotis), 644. Heliocheilus, 34. Heliolonche, 12. Heliophana, 13. Heliosea, 15. Heliothis, 15, 34. helvetina (Hpisilia), 506. helvetina (Noctua), 506. hemileuea (Agrotis), 365. hemispherica (Huyoa), 660. henrietta (Carneades), 300. henrietta (Euxoa), 300. herbacea (lsochlora), 129. herbacea (Polyphenis), 617. herbida (Noctua), 617. herculeana (Agrotis), 410. herculeana 410. herilis (Agrotis). 346, herilis (Feltia), 346. heringt (Agrotis), 226, heringi (Huxoa), 226. Hermonassa, 357. hero ( Agrotis), 630. hero (Triphzena), 630. herrich-schefferi (Agro- tis,) 475. herrich-schzfferi (Episi- lia), 475. hersi (Episilia), 482. herzi (Agrotis), 482. hetera (Triphena), 648. hilaris (Agrotis), 258, Ae hilaris (Episilia), 472. hilaris (Euxoa), 258. hilliana (Agrotis), 434. (Noctua), ALPHABETICAL INDEX, hippophaes (Noctua), 458. Hiptelia, 593. Hiria, 620. hirtella (Anthecia), 94. hirtipalpis (Agrotis), 326, hirtipalpis (Euxoa), 326, hispidula (Agrotis), 289. hispidula (Huxoa), 289. hodne (Agrotis), 177. hoegit ( Agrotis), 387. hollemant (Agrotis), 213. hollemani (Huxoa), 215. holoberba (Carneades), 252. holoberba (Euxoa), 252. hololeuca (Timora), 117. homicida ( Agrotis), 232 homicida (Kuxoa), 252. bomochroma (Episilia), 495. honesta (Agrotis), 347. honesta (Ieltia), 347. honesta (Heliothis), 22 honesta (Melicleptria), 2° honnoratina (Agrotis), 234. hortulana ( Agrotis), 348. hospitalis (Agrotis), £18. hudsoni (Feltia), 666. huguenini (Agrotis), 159. hulstia (Schinia), 76. humigena (Agrotis), 190. humigena (Huxoa), 190. hyalostieta (Chloridea), 38. hyelosticta (Heliothis), byriites (Agrotis), pees (Episilia), 468. hyperborea (Hadena), 468. hyperici (Actinotia), 124. hyperict (Noctua), 124. Aypernenia, 514. hypochaleis (Agrotis), 380. Hypoxestia, 600. hyrcana (Agrotis), 239. hysgina (Noctua), 647. idahoensis 295. idahoensis (Euxoa), 295. idonea (Phalena), 368. (Agrotis), I-geminumn (Noctua), 379. ignara (Agrotis), 328. ignara (Euxoa), 328. ignicans (Agretis), 554, ignicans (Lycophotia), 5o4. ignicola (Agrotis), 491. ignicola (Noctua), 239. ignicollis (Agrotis), 552. ignipeta (Agrotis), 570. agnobilis (Agrotis), 328, 506. ignobilis (Hpisilia), 506. ignota (Ochropleura), 405. I-wtactum (Noctua), 559. Tlarus, 514. illapsa (Graphiphora), 567. illata (Agrotis), 285. imitata (Adisura), 111. imminta (Agrotis), 266. immixta (Euxoa), 206. immortua (Melaporphy- ria), 22. immunis (Teniocampa), 409. impacta (Agrotis), 536. imperialis (Heliothis), imperita (Aplectoides), rapee One 582. imperspicua (Heliothis), Tle imperspicua (Lygran- theecia), 71. implicata (Hadena), improba (Agrotis), 333. improba (Huxoa), 333. improcera (Agrotis), 332. inattenta (Kueretagrotis), 666. incalida (Huxoa), 271 tncallida (Agrotis), 271. incarnata (Noctua), 33. incarnata (Rhodoclep- tria), 33. incisa (Hermonassa), 359. incivis (Agrotis), 555. inclara (Heliothis), 68. incom (Lygrantheecia), oe (Agrotiphila), 135. incognita (Agrotis), 258. incognita (Orosagrotis), 135. inconcinia (Agrotis), 314 inconcinna (Euxoa), 314. inconspicua (Chersotis), 173 incubita (Carneades), 254, indeterminata (Eurois), 615. indeterminata (Xylina), 615. indiana (Agrotis), 608. indiana (Mythimna), 608. indigna (Apamea), 524, indigna (Euxoa), 324. indirecta (Mamestra), 256. inelegans (Agrotis), 641. inelegans (Triphena), inermis (Agrotis), 536. inexpectata (Agrotis), inextricata (Mamestra), 256. infantilis (Agrotis), 478. infantilis (Episilia), 478. infausta (Euxoa), 277. infausta (Hadena), 277 infecta (Agrotis), 555. injecta (Lycophotia), 559. infelia (Agrotis), 292. infimatis (Agrotis), 589. infimatis (Anomogyna), - 589. inflata (Anthecia), 37. informis (Agrotis), 852. informis (Feltia), 352. informis, var. confluens (Agrotis), 352. infracta (Agrotis), 228. infracta (Euxoa), 228. infusa (Carneades), 298. infusa (Euxoa), 164, 298. infusa (Noctua), 164. infuscata (Spelotis), 536. ingeniculata (Agrotis), 376. ingoufia (Agrotis), 349. ingrata ( Agrotis), 167. injunctata (Agrotis), 164. innocua (Cerastis), 409. innominata (Agrotis), 515. inneminata (Lyeophotia), 515. innotabilis (Agrotis), 615. innotabilis (Laphygma), 306. innuba (Noctua), 387. inobtrusa (Agrotis), 665. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, inopinata (Agrotis), 456. inopinatus (Noctua), 456. insertans (Agrotis), 206. insertans (Euxoa), 206. ee (Agrotis), 269, 2 ) insignata (Kuxoa), 269. insignata (Graphiphora), 560. insignata (Lycophotia), 560. inspinosa ( Agrotis), 853. instructa (Agrotis), 527. insularis (Agrotis), 632. insulsa (Mamestra), 256. intecta (Agrotis), 536. intendens (Axylia), 324. interclusa (Hpisilia), 471. interclusa (Psaphara), 471. inter ferens ( Agrotis), 661. interjacens ( Heliothis), 41. interjecta (Noctua), 628 interjecta (‘Triphzena), 628. interjectionis (Agrotis), 166. interjectionis (Huxoa), 166. intermedia (Agrotis), 573. intermedia (Noctua), 560. intermixta (Noctua), 666, internexa (Agrotis), 665. interposita (Agrotis), 354. interrupta (Agrotis), 551. interrupta (Lycophotia), 551, interstriata 149. interstriata (Micragrotis), 149. intexta (Ipimorpha), 609. (Agrotis), intolerabilis (Agrotis), 252. intolerabilis (Huxoa), 252. intrabilis (Lygrantheecia), 70. intrabilis (Schinia), 70. intracta ( Agrotis), 315. intracta (Euxoa), 515. intracta (Hadena), 453. intrita (Agrotis), 251. intrita (Huxoa), 251. introferens (Agrotis), 311. intrusa (Carneades), 286 intrusa (Euxoa), 286. invaria (Leucania), 101. invenusta (Agrotis), 538. tonola ( Adisura), 100. ionola (Melicleptria), 100. 677 irrorata (Masalia), 109. irrorata (Timora), 10%. islandica (Agrotis), 272, 299. islandica (Euxoa), 299. Tsochlora, 128. isochlora (Episiha), 502. isopleura ( Ayrotis), 503. isopleura (Lycophotia), 553. issyka (Nenia), 619. issykula ( Agrotis), 333. itodes (Carneades), 260. itodes (Euxoa), 260. iveni (Agrotis), 468. jaculifera (Agrotis), 343, 345, 346. jaguarina (Anthexcia), 91. jaguarina (Schinia), 91. jalapa (Agrotis), 459. jankowskii (Triphena), 625. Janthina (Noctua), 627 janthina (Triphiena), 627. Januulis (Agrotis), 613. gaspidea (Noctua), 617. jotunensis (Agrotis), 512. jucunda (Agrotis), 418. jucunda (Graphiphora), 418. Juldussi (Agrotis), 501. juldussi (Hpisilia), 501. Julia (Rhadosea), 103. julia (Timora), 103. juncta (Agrotis), 446. Junctimacula (Aqrotis), 520. junctimacula — (Lyco- photia), 520 junctura (Agrotis), 402, Junonia (Agrotis), 503. Junonia (Episilia), 503. juvenis (Agrotis), 440. karschi (Agrotis), 299. kasloa (Melicleptria), 663. kenteana (Agrotis), 435. kermesina (Noctua), 526. kervillei ( Carneades), 264. kirghisa (Agrotis), 326. kollari (Agrotis), 399. koppent (Hicomorpha), 503. kungessi (Agrotts), 485. labe (Anthecia), 63. labradoriensis (Agrotis), 272. lacteata (Micragrotis), 150. 678 lacunosa (Agrotis), 204. lacunosa (Huxoa), 204. ladacensis (Ala), 12. ladakensis (Anarta), 12. letabilis (Anomogyna), 590. letabilis (Hadena), 590. letifica (Agrotis), 508. letifica (Episilia), 508. letificans (Carneades), 208. leetificans (Euxoa), 208. letula (Agrotis), 641. letula (Lriphena), 641. levis (Noctua), 377. lagena (Agrotis), 334. lagena (Huxoa), 554, laggane (Carneades), Di 59. lagganz ( Euxoa), 259 lamentanda (Agrotis), 491. laminis (Carneades), 502. laminis (Huxoa), 502. Lampra, 622. lunceola (Hadena), 360. lanceola 360. lanceolata (Alaria), 111. lanceolata (Timora), 111. languida (Adonisea), 19. lanidorsa (Agrotis), 660. lansarotensis (Muxoa), 158. lanul (Heliothis), 88. lanul (Schinia), 88. lanzarotensis (Agrotis), 158. lapidosa (Agrotis), 664. lapidosa (Gruphiphora), 165. lapponica (Noctua), 607. larixia (Agrotis), 540. larixia (Lycophotia), 540. lasciva (Agrotis), 500. lasciva (Hpisilia), 500. lassa (Agrotis), 167. liusserrei (Huxoa), 156. lusserrei (Luperina), 156. lata (Agrotis), 155. lata (Leniocampa), 603. latens (Agrotis), 259. latens (Episilia), 510. latens (Noctua), 510. latimarginata (Agrotis), 627. latitans (Agrotis), 511. lederert (Agrotis), 509, 521. ledereri (Episilia), 509. ledercri (Hadena), 5138. (Hermonassa), ALPHABETICAL INDEX, lenticulosa (Agrotis), 245. leonina (Agrotis), 517. lepetitii (Orthosia), 604. leucanioides (Adisura), 120. leucatma (Heliothis), 32. leucogaster (Agrotis), 406. leucogaster (Noctua), 406. leucoyrapha (Lyte), 644. leucographa (Mythimna), 604. leucographa (Noctua),60+4. leucosticta (Timora), 107. levisi (Euxoa), 278 lewisi (Pleonectopoda), 278. lidia (Agrotis), 644. lidia (Euxoa), 310. lidia (Noctua), 310. ligee (Schinia), 58. ligese (Thyreion), 58. lignosa (Noctua), 188, 452 limbalis (Lygranthecia), 93 limbalis (Schinia), 93. limbata (Agrotis), 375. limenia (Agrotis), 440. lineata (Anthophila), 79. lineifera (Huxoa), 309. lineifera (Noctua), 309. lineifrons (Carneades), 264. lineifrons (Euxoa), 264. linogrisea (Hpilecta), 621. linogrisea (Noctua), 621 lipara (Agrotes), 154. littoralis (Agrotis), 485. littoralis (Kpisilia), 483. livia (Noctua), 506. livida (Agrotis), 240. livonica ( Agrotis), 175. longidens (Feltia), 145. longidens (Porosagrotis), 145. longidentifera (Huxoa), 166. longipenne (Copeble- pharon), 119. longipennis (Copable- pharon), 119. Cee (lsochlora), 129. lora (Lygrantheecia ?), fills BetSoirean Ts loresi (Hpisilia), 492. lorezi ( Hiptelia), 4% fe loya (Carneades), 21 loya (Euxoa), 217. lubentia (Graphiphora), 647. lubricans (Lycophotia), 567. lubricans (Noctua), 567. lucens (Agrotis), 460. lucens (Dasypoudeea), 51. lucens (Heliothis), 51. lucens (Spelotis), 460. lucerna (Noctua), 505. lucerna (Episilia), 505. lucicolens (Huxoa), 192. lucicolens (Spelotis), 192. lucifera (Noctua), 412. lucilinea (Heliothis), 78. lucilinea (Schinia), 78, 697. lucipeta (Euxoa), 336, lucipeta (Noctua), 536. lugens ( Agrotis), 179. lunata (Hermonassa), 360. ’ lunigera (Agrotis), 245. lupata (Chloridea), 35. lupatus ( Heliothis), 35. l uperinoid es (Cyrebia), 497. luperinoides (Episilia), 497. lutea (Xylina), 354. luteitinctus (Heliothis), 41 luteola (Agrotis), 229. luteola (Huxoa), 229. luteosita (Huxoa), 242. luteositus (Carneades), 242. lutescens (Agrotis), 517. lutescens (EKuxoa), 181. lutescens (Lycophotia), 517. lutescens (Noctua), 181, oo. lutosa (Agrotis), 621. lutulenta (Agrotis), 268. lutulenta (Euxoa), 268. luxa ( Bessula), 75. luxa (Schinia), 75. luxuriosa (Tamila), 51. lycarum (Agrotis), 255. Lycophotia, 514. Lygrantheeia, 60. lyncea (Noctua), 125, lynx (Anthecia), 91. lynx (Schinia), 91. macrina (Agrotis), 572. macrina (Lycophotia), 572. maculata (Agrotiphila), 154. madida (Episilia), 475. madida (Mesegona), 473. magellanica — ( Ochro- pleura), 489. magyagensis (Agrotis), 267. mahalpa (Anicla), 555. maimes (Carneades), 663, miict (Agrotis), 285. malefidu (Agrotis), 853. malefida (Feltia), 353. males (Carneades), 275. malis (Huxoa), 275. mandarina (Agrotis), 394. mandarina (Graphi- phora), 418. mandarina (Ochro- pleura), 394. mandarinella (Agrotis), 418. manethusa (Agrotis), 319. manethusa (Huxoa), 319. manifesta (Agrotis), 480. manifesta (Hpisilia), 480. manifestolabes (Agrotis), 614, maravigna (Agrotis), 575. marcens (Agrotis), 240. marcida ( Agrotis), 322. marcida (Euxoa), 322 margaritacea (Lyco- photia), 559. margaritacea (Noctua), 559. margaritosa photia), 586. margaritosa (Noctua), 536. marginalis (Adisura), 121. marginalis (Agrotis), 167. marginalis (Anthophila), 121. marginata (Agrotis), 665. marginata (Cambrus), 69. (Lyco- marginata (Curubasa), 112. marginata (Lygran- theecia), 69. maritima (Heliothis), 40. marmorea (Agrotis), 524. marsdent (Heliophobus), 158. Masalia, 108. masculinus (Carneades), 668. masoni (Rhododipsa), 60, Matuta, 612. mututina (Porphyrinia), 50: maxima (Isochlora), 128. meadi (Dasypoudiea), 52. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. meadi (Heliothis), 52. medialis (Agrotis), 238. medialis (Huxoa), 238. mediorhenana (Ammo- conta), 606. Megasema, 362. megastigma (Carneades), 277. megastigma (Huxoa), 277. melancholica (Agrotis), 436. melanobasis (Lycopho- tia), 557. melanoneura (Agrotis), 281. melanoneura (Huxoa), 281. melanura (Agrotis), 449. Melaporphyria, 22 Melicleptria, 87. mendica (Noctua), 491. mendosa (Noctua), 403. mendosica (Lycophotia), 524. mercenaria (Agrotis), 313. mesceana (Liygran- theecia), 65, Mesembreuxoa, 137. meskeana (Lygranthecia), By Mesogona, 602. mesoleuca (Canthylidia), Hs) mesoleuca (Melicleptria), 99. mesotoxa (Agrotis), 188. mesotoxa (EHuxoa), 188. messia (Lycophotia), 556. messium (Agrotis), 556. messoria (Agrotis), 256. messoria (Huxoa), 256. meta (Rhynchagrotis), 666. metachrisea (Chloridea), 42. Metalepsis, 462. metaphea (Timora), 115. metarhoda (Timora), 106. Metaxyia, 153. mexicana (Hupanychis), 95. Micragrotis, 148. micronyx (Agrotis), 257. micronyx (Huxoa), 257 microreas (Agrotiphila), 132. microreas (Agrotis), 152. microstigma (Lycopho- tin) 5d]. microstigma (Micragro- tis), 609. 679 milituris (Agrotis), 521. militaris (Lycophotia), 521. millegrana (Noctua), 606. milleri (Agrotis), 336 2 milleri (Feltia), 389 millieri (Agrotis), 267. mimallonis (Agrotts), 148. mimallonis (Porosagro- tis), 148. Mimetis, 153. mintago (Xanthia), 594, miniago (Nestia), 594. miniana (Rhododipsa), 59. minimalis (Agrotis), 639. minimalis (T'ripheena), minna ( Cerastis), 558. muinna (Lycophotia), 558. mirabilis (Agrotis), 635. mirabilis (Triphzna), 635. mista (Noctua), 605, 607. misturata (Carneadcs), 224. misturata (Huxoa), 224. mitis (Carneades), 254, mitis (Euxoa), 25-4. mitis (Heliophana), 14. mitis ( Melicleptria), 14. mixta (Acronycta), 580. Mixta (Noctua), 248, O17, mizteca (Carneades), 393. mniodes (Agrotis), 649. mniodes (Proteuxoa), 649. modesta (Agrotis), 189, 501. modesta (Kpisilia), 501. modesta (Pradatta), 116. modesta (Timora), 116. modicella (Heliolonche), 12. meerens (Agrotis), 664. merens (Carneades), 224, meerens (Huxoa), 224 molepa (Agrotis), 473. molepa (Episilia), 473, molihdoida ( Agrotis), 575. molibdoida (Lycophotia), 575. mollis (Agrotis), 186, 272, 665. mollis (Euxoa), 186, 272. mollis ( Orthosia), 558. molochitina (Chloridea), 48. molothina (Lycophotia), 516. molothina (Noctua), 516. 689 monochromatea (Agrotis), 483. monochromatea —_ (Hpi- silia), 483. monogramma (Episilia), 509. monstrata 587. montana (Agrotis), 133, 658. montana (Noctua), 435. monticola (Agrotis), 189. moribunda (Leucania), 101. moribunda(Melicleptria), 101. MorrisoOniana 337. mortua (Anthecia), 63. mortua (Lygrantheecia), 65. mucida (Noctua), 605. mulina (Agrotis), 599. multangula — (Agrotis), 445, multangula 445. multicuspts Bae multicuspis (Huxoa), 333. multifida (Agrotis), 548. multifida (Lyeophotia), 548. multiradiata (Raghuva), (Acronyeta), (Agqrotis), (Noctua), (Agrotis), mundotides (Agrotis), 61. mundoides (Propatria), 651. munis (Agrotis), 273. munis (Euxoa), 273. murenula (Agrotis), 145, murdoci (Euxoa), 247. murdocki (Agrotis), 247. murina (Noctua), 511. murina (Orthosia), 174. mus (Agrotis), 509. muscosa (Agrotis), 234. muscosa (Lycophotia), 552. muscosa (Mentaxya), 552. muscula (Episilia), 500. musculus (Agrotis), 500. musiva (Agrotis), 374. musiva (Noctua), 374. musivula (Agrotis), 389. mustelina (Agrotis), 266. mustelina (Huxoa), 266, mysteca (Agrotis), 393. Mythimna, 602. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Neenia, 618. nevula (Kuxoa), 230. nevulus ( Carneades), 230. nanalis (Agrotis), 577. nanalis (Lycophotia), 577. nebula (Agrotis), 422. nebula (Graphiphora), 422. nebulosa (Agrotis), 527. nebulosa (Noctua), 240. neglecta (Noctua), 377. neglecta (Schinia ?), 79. Neocleptria, 52. neomexicana (Carneades), 206. neomexicana 206. neotelis ( Carneades), 288. neotelis (Huxoa), 288. Netrocerocora, 662. Neuria, 514. neurias (Heliothis), 99. neurias (Melicleptria), 99. neurogramima (Agrotis), 415. neuroides (Heliothis), 651. neuroides (Propatria), 651. Neurois, 610. nevada (Carneades), 214. nevada (Huxoa), 214. nictymera (Agrotis), 50+. niger (Rhynchagrotis), 666. nigra (Agrotis), 299. nigra (Lycophotia), 532. nigra (Peridroma), 532. nigrescens (Agrotis), 330. nigricans ( Agrotis), 285. nigricans (Euxoa), 249. nigricans (Noctua), 249. nigriceps (Mamestra), 441. (Euxoa), nigricostata (Agrotis), 665, nigrifasciata (Timora), 110. nigrina (Agrotis), 283. nigripennis ( Agrotis), 286. nigrirena (Noctua), 83. nigristriata (Timora), nigrita (Agrotis), 278. nigrita (Euxoa), 278. nigrofulva (Noctua), 362. migrofusca (Noctua), 293. nigromaculata (Agrotis), 418. nigrosigna (Graphiphora), 426. nigroviridis (Diphtera), 610. nigroyiridis (Neurois), 610, nigrovittata (Agrotis), 558. nili (Agrotis), 264. nili (Euxoa), 264. nipona (Agrotis), 455. nitida (Mamestra), 367. nivalis (Agrotis), 169. niveilinea (Agrotis), 210. niveilinea (Euxoa), 210. nivisparsa (Agrotis), 421. nivisparsa (Chersotis), 421. nobilis (Anthecia), 63. Noctua, 363. Noctuids, 1. noctuifornis (Carneades), 279. noctuiformis 279. nomas (Agrotis), 664. nordica ( Carneades), 304. nordica (Euxoa), 504. (Euxoa), normaniana — (Agrotis), 398. normanianus (Agrotis), 398. norwegica (Agrotis), 272: norwegica (Agrotis), 660. nostra (Agrotis), 285. nostra (Huxoa), 285. nubigera (Chloridea), 45. nubigera (Heliothis), +3. nubila (Apamea), +30. nubila (Heliothis), 71. nubila (Lygrantheecia), (Ale nubila (Noctua), 407. nubila (Timora), 108. nuchalis (Heliothis), 102. numa (Agrotis), 660. nun-atrum (Bonbyx), 389. nundina (Noctua), 83. nundina (Schinia), 83. nyctina (EKuxoa), 336. nyctopis (Huxoa), 250. nyctymerina (Agrotis), 494. nyctymerina (Hpisilia), 494 Nyssocnemis, 513. oavacana (Agrotis), 320. obducta (Noctua), 455. obelisca (Agrotis), 300, 320. obelisca (Euxoa), 182. ohelisca (Noctua), 182. obeliscoides (Agrotis), 292, obeliscoides (Huxoa), 292. oberthuri ( Agrotis), 310. oberthuri (Euxoa), 310, obesa (Agrotis), 154. ebesa (Euxoa), 154. ohesa (Noctua), 513. obesa (Nyssocnemis), 513. obesula (Agrotis), 146. objurguta (Carneades), 255. objurgata (Euxoa), 255. oblata (Agrotis), 454. obliqua (Feltia), 666. obliqua (Schinia), 82. obliquata (Heliophana), 14. obliterata (Hadena), 590. obliviosa (Agrotis), 167. oblongistigma (Agrotis), 210. oblongistigma (Huxoa), 210. oblongula (Agrotis), 470. oblongula (Hpisilia), 470, 665. obotritica (Agrotis), 527. obscura (Agrotis), 184, 221, 248. obscura (Anytus), 588. obscura (Noctua), 172, 174, 455. obscurata (Agrotis), 510. obscurata (Lygranthee- cia ?), 65. obscurata (Schinia), 65. obscurior (Agrotis), 293 570. obscurus (Anytus), 588. observabilis (Agrotis), 631. obsoleta (Bombyx), 657. obtusa ( Agrotis), 308. obumbrata (Agrotis), 570 obuncula (Agrotis), 416. obvia ( Graphiphora), 464. ocacensis (Episilia), 481. occidentalis _ (Agrotis), occulta (Lycophotia), 533. occulta (Noctua), 533. ocellina (Lycophotia), d46. ocellina(Noctua),546, 547. ochracea (Episilia), 480. ochracea ( Oxira), 480. ochreago (Noctua), 594. ochreago (Xestia), 594. ochrei fascia (Schinia), 88. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, ochrina ( Agrotis), 526. ochrina (Lycophotia), 526. ochrogaster (Huxoa), 290. ochrogaster (Noctua), 290. ochrojois (Xestia), 594. ochronota (Lycophotia), 535. Ochropleura, 363. oculata (Schinia), 75. Ogugia, 364. okakensis (Agrotis), 481. oleagina (Schinia), 79. olivalis (Agrotis), 211. olivalis (Euxoa), 211. olivaria (Heliothis), 663. olivascens (Agrotis), 481. olivascens (Hpisilia), 481. oliveata (Agrotis), 577. oliveata (liycophotia), 577. olivia ( Agrotis), 343. olivia (Feltia), 343. olivina (Agrotis), 245. omega (Noctua), 458. onca (Anthecia), 37. ononensis (Agrotis), 524. ononensis (Lycophotia), 524. ononis (Chloridea), 39. ononis (Noctua), 39. ontario ( Carneades), 259. ontario (Huxoa), 259. Onychagrotis, 465. opaca (Agrotis), 319. opacifrons (Agrotis), 367. Opigena, 562. opipara (Agrotis), 272. opipara (Euxoa), 272, 661. opisoleuca ( Agrotis), 529 opisoleuca (Euxoa), 329. optabilis (Cladocerotis), 158. optabilis (Heliophobus), 138. orbicularis (Agrotis), 166, PA orbicularis (Euxoa), 271. orbiculosa (Noctua), 127. orbiculosa (Oxytripia), 127. Orhifrons, 153. orbis (Agrotis), 637. orbona (Agrotis), 335. orhona (Noctua), 386. orhona (Phalenas 385. ordinata (Agrotis), 256. soregonica (Dysocnemis), 25. oregonica 20. (Melicleptria), 681 orientis (Agrotis), 352. orilliana( Pachnobia), 479. ornatus (Abagrotis), 666. ornea (Agrotis), 525. ornea (Lycophotia), 525. orophila (Brotis), 536. Orosagrotis, 135. Orthodes, 153. orthogonia (Agrotis), 142. orthogonia(Porosagrotis), orthogramma photia), 554. Orthosia, 602. orthosioides 165. ortonit (Agrotis), 536. osmida (Melicleptria), 99. osmidus (Heliocheilus), 39: oxalina (Mythimna), 609. oxalina (Noctua), 609. Oxira, 467. Oxylos, 49. Oxytripia, 127. (Lyco- (Elegarda), Pachnohia, 467. pachnobides (Agrotis), packardii (Anthecia), 63. palestinensis (Agrotis), 419! paliescens (Agrotis), 560. pallescens (Mythimna), 603. pallescens (Pradatta), 109. pallescens (Semiophora), 603. pallida (Adisura), 120. pallida (Agrotis), 167. pallida (Canthylidia), 100. pallida (Melicleptria), 100. pallidicollis (Agrotis), 449. pallidifrons (Huxoa), 191. pallidula (Agrotis), 665. pallidula (Graphiphora), 362. pallidula (Hermonassa), 362. pallipennis (Agrotis), 289. pallipennis (Kuxoa), 289. panda (Agrotis), 486. panda (Episilia), 486. panoplias (Agrotis), 187. panoplias (Euxoa), 187. paradoxa (Chloridea), 37. 682 par adoxws (Heliocheilus), Deepa 660. parallela (Trichorthosia), 601. Paraxestia, 601. parentalis (Agrotis), 597. parentalis (Richia), 597 parmeiana (Ly, yranthe- cia), 82. parmeliana (Schinia), 82. parnassiphila (Agrotis), 664. parvula (Agrotis), 571. passetii (Agrotis), 533. pastoralis ( Agrotis,, 219. patagonica (Thyreion), G57. patagonicus (Heliothis), 657. patetacta (Agrotis), 447. patefacta (Noctua), 447. patricia (Agrotis), 643 patricia (Kuretagrotis), patula (Agrotis), 144. patula (Porosagrotis), 144. pauper (Prodenia), 555. paur BS Rane, (Agrotis), 652. paurogramma (Heto- patria), 652. pawxillus (Heliothis), 20. pectinata (Pseudorthosia), 483. pectinata (Spelotis), 165. pectinicornis (Feltia), 340. pedalis (Carneades), 261. pedalis (Huxoa), 261. pellucidalis _ ( Agrotis), 542. pellucidalis (Lycophotia), 542. peltigera (Chloridea), 42. peltigera (Noctua), 42. piperida (Euxoa), 329. perattenta (Huretagrotis), 646. perattentus (Agrotis), 646. perconflua (Agrotis), 418, perdentata (Raghuva), 30. perdita (Agrotis), 469. perdita (Hpisilia), 469. pereacellens — (Agrotis), 292. perfusca (Agrotis), 220. perfusea (Euxoa), 220 ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Peridroma, 514. perigeoides (Heliothis), 43 perigramma (Agrotis), 193. perigramma (Huxoa), perigrapha (Agrotis), 516. perigrapha (Lycophotia), 516. Periphana, 52. perirrorata (Agrotis), 563. perirrorata (Lycophotia), perlentans (Agrotis), 285. perminuta (Melicleptria), 28. perminuta (Pseudota- mila), 28. permunda (Agrotis), 220. perotensis (Agrotis), 473. perpolita (Agrotis), 219. perpolita (Huxoa), 219. perpura (Agrotis), 274. perquiritata (Polia), 580. persica (Agrotis), 548. persimilis ( Heliothis), 20. personata (Agrotis), 229. EAA (Noctua), perstr iata (Raghuva), 32. perturbata (Carneades), QHD: perturbata (Euxoa), ae pesronit (Agrotis), 556. petersi (Lycophotia), 527. petersi (Phieboéis), 527. petulans (Anthecia), 92. petulans Caer 92. pexa (Agrotis), 349. pexa (Feltia), 349. Phiehoéis, 514. phlebophora phron), 55. phlogophagus (Heliothis), 41 (AEdo- phloxiphaga (Chloridea), Al phlowiphagus ( Heliothis), 41 photoph ila (Agrotis), 570. photophila (Euxoa), photophila (Leucania), 195. photophila (Lyeophotia), D7O. phyllophora (Agrotis), 421, phyteume (Noctua), 546. picta (Nocrua), 524. picteti (Ala), 11. pictifascia (Euxoa), 508. pictifascia (Heliothis), 308. pictipennis (Heliosea), 1b: pierreti (Euxoa), 158. plerrett? (Hpisema), 158. pulicornis (Noctua), 605. pindar (Carneades), ZOD: pindar (Euxoa), 295. Pippona, 60. piscipellis (Agrotis), pitychrous ( Agrotis), 229. placida (Agrotis), 636. placida (Triphaena), 636 plagiata (Mamestra), 397. plagigera (Agrotis), 211. plagigera (Euxoa), 211. plana (Agrotis), 371 plana (Anytus), 587. ATI SEE (Agrotis), 522 planifrons (Lycophotia), 522, Platagrotis, 580. plebeia (Agrotis), 417. plebeia (Noctua), 417. plecta (Agrotis), 405. plecta (Noctua), 405. plectina (Agrotis), 406. Pleonectopoda, 158. pleuritica (Agrotis), 269. plicata (Ufeus), 58+. plicatus ( Ufeus), 584. plumbata (Ochropleura), 399. plumbea (Agrotis), 507. plumbea (Hpisilia), 507, pluralis (Agrotis), 141. pluralis (Porosagrotis), 141. pecila (Agrotis), 569. pecila (Lycophotia), 569. poliogramma (Agrotis}, 438. poliotis (Huxoa), 184. polita (Agrotis), 494. polybela (Huxoa), 155. polygona (Noctua), 362. Belson (Opigena), 362. polygonides (Agrotis), P21, polyodon (Actinotia), 123. polyodon (Phalena), 128. pontica (Agrotis), 405. Porosagrotis, 140. porphyrea (Lycophotia), 524. porphyrea (Noctua), 524. mv ee icollis (Agrotis), 165, por phyricollis (Euxoa), 165. Porrima, 72. postfusca (Agrotis), 477. postfusca (Episilia), 477. posticata (Caradrina), 419. postventa (Hurois), 566. postventa (Lycophotia), 566. Pradatta, 103. preceps (Noctua), 578. precipua (Agrotis), 499. precipua (Episilia), 499. precipua (Laphygma), 555. preecox (Lycophotia), 78. 57 precox (Noctua), 167, 555, 578. precurrens (Agrotis), 577. precurrens (Lycophotia), 577. prefixa (Agrotis), 534. priefixa (Lycophotia), 534. prestans (Agrotis), 826, Praina, 514. prasina (Eurois), 617. prasina (Noctua), 617. prasina (Xanthia), 48. praticola (Noctua), 182. pratincola (Noctua), 293. pressa (Aplectoides), 582. pressus (Kurois), 582. pretiosa (Ala), 11. primule (Noctua), 491. privata (Anytis), 587. privata (Polia), 587. procellaris (Agrotis), 217. procellaris (Euxoa), 217. proclivis (Agrotis), 320. proclivis (Euxoa), 320. prodenoides (Agrotis), 5d4. MO Gens ALPHABETICAL INDEX, profunda (Anytus), 588. profundus (Anytus), 588. proleuca (Huxoa), 180. Pronoctua, 641. pronuba (Agrotis), 387. pronuba minor (Noctua), 386. pronuba (Noctua), 387. pronycta (Euxoa), 524. Propatria, 651. prorupta (Dysocnemis), 23 proruptus (Heliothis), 23. prosarca (Micragrotis), 659. prosequa (Noctua), 386. Protagrotis, 655. Proteuxoa, 649. provida (Xylina), 654, psammoda (Agrotis), 495. psammoda (Episilia), 499. psammophea (Agrotis), 246. psammophza (Euxoa), 246. Psaphara, 467. Pseudoglea, 602. pseudoplectra (Agrotis), 143. Pseudorthosia, 466. Pseudotamila, 27. pudens (Agrotis), 568. pudens (Lycophotia), 568. pudica (Agrotis), 574. pudica (Lycophotia), o74. pugionis (Carneades), 209. pugionis (Huxoa), 209. pulchra (Heliothis), 20, pulchripennis(Heliothis), pulchripennis (Meliclep- tria), 19. pa erea (Lycophotia), 567. pulverosa (Heliothis), 45. pulverulenta (Pradatta), 109. puncticostata (Agrotis), 151. puncticostata (Micragro- tis), 151. punctifera (Heliothis), 32, punctifera (Neocleptria), Oo” v=. punctigera (Huxoa), 219. 683 punctigera (Heliothis), 45. punctigera (Mamestra), 219. punctipes (Agrotis), 665, punicea (Agrotis), 412. punicea (Noctua), 412. punta-areneé (Agrotis), 306. purpurascens this), 20. purpurascens (Noctua), 20 (Helio- puta (Noctua), 183. putris (Agrotis), 452. putris (Noctua), 452. pygmed (Agrotis), 356. pygmaa (HKuxoa), 336. pyraloides (Schinia), 80. pyraloides (Xanthia), 48. pyramis (Noctua), 362. Pyrocleptria, 25. pyrophila (Noctua), 510, * pyrophiloides (Agrotis), 642. pyrophiloides noctua), 642. (Pro- quadrangula (Agrotis), 507. quadrangula (Episilia), 507. quadrangula (Noctua), 470, quadrata (Graphiphora), 409. quadratum 419, quadridentata (Agrotis), 209 (Noctua), quadridentata (Euxoa), 209: quadriplaga (Netrocero- cora), 662. quarta (Agrotis), 616. quarta (Hurois), 616. quebecensis (Lycophotia), 530. quebecensis (Setagrotis), 530. quieta 132. quieta (Noctua), 132. quinguelinea (Agrotis), 260. quinquelinea (Huxoa), 9 (Agrotiphila), - Raddea, 467. raddet ( Agrotis), 575. radians (Aqgrotis), 164, 22 684 radians (Huxoa), 164. radiata (Keltia), 343. radiata (Lycophotia), 514 radiata (Masalia), 114. radiata (Praina), 514. radiata (Timora), 114. radiatus (Setagrotis), 523. radica (Noctua), 419. radicea (Noctua), 510. radiola ( Agrotis), 183. radiola (Lycophotia), 523. radiosa (Actinotia), 125. radiosa (Noctua), 128. radius (Bombyx), 183. radius (Euxoa), 1&3. Raghuva, 29. rana (Agrotis), 551. vara (Agrotis), 274. rattus (Agrotis), 664. rava (Agrotis), 507. ravida (Agrotis), 455. ravida (Noctua), 455. reciproca (Apamea), 409. reclusa (Huxoa), 324. reclusa (Graphiphora), O24. recondita (Agrotis), 165. rectangula (Agrotis), 6. rectangula (Noctua), 446. rectangula, yar. acutan- gula (Agrotis), 446. recticincta (Carneades), 261. recticincta (Huxoa), 261. vecula (Agrotis), 207. recula (Huxoa), 207. recussa (Huxoa), 287. recussa (Noctua), 287. redimicula (Agrotis), 306. redimicula (Euxoa), 306. regia (Heliothis), 89. regia (Schinia), 89. relaxa (Huxoa), 235, relacus (Carneades), 235. remota (Agrotis), 228. remota (Euxoa), 228. rena (Agrotis), 281. rena (Huxoa), 281. renalba (Mamestra), 612. renalba (Neurois), 612. renalis (Agrotis), 395. renalis (Axylia), 451. renalis (Ochropleura), 395. reniformis (Schinia), 75. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, renigera (Graphiphora), 505. renigera (Lycophotia), 573. renigera (Noctua), 573. renitens (Noctua), 188. repanda (Agrotis), 163. repanda (Huxoa), 163. repentis (Agrotis), 256. repleta (Agrotis), 408. repulsa (Agrotis), 167. respersa (Noctua), 606. reticens (Agrotis), 256. retracta (Episilia), 489. reuda (Agrotis), 283. reuda (Euxoa), 283. rhetica (Agrotis), 591. rhexia (Phalena), 48. Rhizagrotis, 153. rhodites (A%dophron), 54. rhodites (Heliothis), 54. Rhodocleptria, 33. Rhododipsa, 59. Rhodophora, 55. Rhodosea, 103. rhomboidea (Agrotis), 411 rhomboidea (Graphi- phora), 364. rhomboidea (Noctua), 411. Rhyacia, 153. Rhynchagrotis, 648. Richia, 595. ridingsiana (Agrotis), 212. ridingsiana 212. rigida (Agrotiphila), 136. rigida (Anarta), 132. rigida (Orosagrotis), 136, 658. rileyana (Agrotis), 468. rileyana (Onychagrotis), 465. rimosa (Agrotis), 552. ripe (Lycophotia), 527, ripe (Noctua), 527. rivulosa (Anthecia), 69. robiginosa (Agrotis), 225. robiginosa (Euxoa), 225. robusta (Agrotis), 169. robusta (Kuxoa), 169. robusta (Noctua), 368. - robustior (Feltia), 341. rodea (Leucania), 523. rodea (Lycophotia), 523. rogneda (Agrotis), 159. romanovt (Agrotis), 517. (Huxoa), romanovi (Lycophotia), es ‘ roosta (Pachncbia), 666. rosacea (Masalia), 114. rosaria (Agrotis), 416. rosea (Thyreion), 58. roseana (Arsiloncha), 109. roseitineta (Lygran- thecia), 90. roseitincta (Schinia), 90. rossica (Agrotis), 299. rubecula (Xanthia), 594. rubefactalis (Agrotis), 251. rubefactalis (Euxoa), 251. rubi (Agrotis), 419. rubi (Noctua), 419. rubicilia (Agrotis), 426. rubicilia (Graphiphora), 426. rubifera (Agrotis), 420. rubiginosa (Heliothis), 90. rubrescens ( Thalpophila), 45. rubricans (Noctua), 249. rubricosa (Mythimna), 605. rubricosa (Noctua), 605. rubrilinea (Agrotis), 165. rubristria (Timora), 112. rudens (Agrotis), 541. rudens (Lycophotia), 541. rufa (Noctua), 605. rufa (Triphena), 627. rufescens (Micragrotis), 152. ruficeps (Euxoa), 661. rufimedia(Lygranthecia), 65. rufipectus (Agrotis), 629. rufipectus (Triphzena), *~)! rufipennis (Agrotis), 148. rufomixta (Euxoa), 661. rufula (Agrotis), 277. rugifrons ( Agrotis), 157. rugifrons (Euxoa), 157. rumatana (Carneades), 664. ruptistriga (Hadena), 480 ruris (Noctua), 182. ruta (Euxoa), 171. ruta (Axylina), 171. sabuletorum (Agrotis), 293. sabulosa (Agrotis), 162. sabulosa (Euxoa), 162. sabura (Agrotis), 156. sagitta (Leucania), 512. sagitta (Noctua), 248. sagittaria (Ufeus), 584. sagittarius (Ufeus), 58+. sagittata ( Agrotis), 248. sagittifera (Noctua), 551. salicarum (Hpisilia), 479. salicarum (Hydrecia), 479. sanguinea (Oria), 90. sanguinea (Schinia), 90. sanguinolenta (Dorika), 108. sanguinolenta (Timora), 108. sareptana (Agrotis) 436. sarmata (Agrotis), 389. satiens (Agrotis), 147. satiens (1 orosagrotis), 147. satis (Agrotis), 282. satis (Huxoa), 282. saturata (Antheecia), 663. saturata (Lygranthecia), 90. saturata (Schinia), 90 satyrica (Ufeus), 080. satyricus (Ufeus), 459, 58). saucia (Noctua), 536. saxigena (Agrotis), 582. scandens (Agrotis), 529. scandens (Lycophotia), 529. scapularis (Agrotis), 164. Se UTE (Agrotis), 52 Schinia, 7 72. schenherri (Anarta), 132. schennherri (Aplecta), 980. schonherri 590. Schoyenia, 131. scissa (Heliothis), 17. scissa (Lygranthecia), LP scoparie (Agrotis), O44. scortea (Peridroma), 147. scortea (Porosagrotis), 147. Scotia, 153. Scotuphila, 514. scropulana (Agrotis), 408. sculpta (Xylinay, 587. sculptilis (Agrotis), 246. sculptilis (Huxoa), 246, seutata (Schinia), 84. scutatus ' Heliothis), 84. (Ophiusa), ALPHABETICAL INDEX, scutosa (Melicleptria), 102. scutosa (Noctua), 102. scutuligera (Chloridea), 44 seutuligera (Heliothis), 44. scytha (Agrotis), 154. segetis (Huxoa), 167. segetum (Noctua), LT. segnilis (Agrotis), 293. segregata (Carneades), 207. segregata (Huxoa), 207. selenias (Agrotis), 425. seliginis (Agrotis), 293. semiclarata (Agrotis), 348. semidolens (Agrotis), 662. semifusea (Agrotis), 535. semifusea (Lycophotia), 539. semiherbida (Triphana), 626. senegalensis (Nonagria), 103. senegalensis (Timora), 108. senescens (Agrotis), 485. senescens (Hpisilia), 485. senex (Noctua), 606. senilis (Agrotis), 485. senna (Agrotis), 461. senna (Noctua), 461. sennina (Agrotis), 461. separata (Agrotis), 665. separata (Heliothis), 47. separata (Lygranthecia), 81 separata (Schinia), 81. septempunctata (Gro- tella), 96. septentrionalis (Agrotis), 144, septentrionalis (Huxoa), 204, 4 septentrionalis (Lygran- theecia), 67. septentrionalis (Mames- tra), 254. septentrionalis (Meliclep- tria), 30. septentrionalis (Omia), 67. serena (Agrotis), 335. sericea (Chersotis), 173. serraticornis (Agrotis), 485. serraticornis (Ipisilia), 485. serricornis (Agrotis), 226. serricornis (Muxoa), 226. 685 servita (Huxoa), 308. servitus (Carneades), 308. sessile (Carneades), 236. sessile (Euxoa), 236. Setagrotis, 514. sexatilis (Agrotis), 292. sexplagiata (Schinia), 80. sexstrigata (Agrotis), 415. seastrigata (Noctua), 415. sibirica (Agrotis), 459. sibirica (Ammoconia), 606. sicania (Agrotis), 167. sicca(Agrotis), 451. sicca (Avylia), 451. siccata (Carneades), 142. siccata (Porosagrotis), 142) sichima (Lycophotia), 519. sicula (Agrotis). 167. slerree (Agrotis), 456. sigma (Noctua), 899, 407. siginoides (Huretagrotis), 645. sigmoides (Noctua), 640. signa (Avrotis), 407. signata (Agrotis), , 226, 512. signifera (Huxoa), 532. signifera (Noctua), 332. significans . (Agrotis), signum (Noctua), 407. sikkima (Mamestra), 519. stlenis (Carneades), 303. silenis (Huxoa), 305. silens (Agrotis), 303. silens (EHuxoa), 303. siliginis (Aqrotis), 293. similis (Adisura), 121. similis (Agrotis), 494. similis (Episilia), 494. simplaria (Agrotis), 561. simplex (Chlorocleptria), dU. simplex (Schinia), 50. simplicia (Lycophotia), 2) 561. simplicius (Agrotis), 561, simplonia (Kuxoa), 241. simplonia (Noctua), 241 simulans (Episilia), 510. simulans (Noctua), 510. simulatrix (Episilia), 504, simulatria (Noctua), 504. sincera (Agrotis), ), DOL, sincera (Anomogyna), 591. sincera (Noctua), 172. singularis (Euxoa), 328. 686 singularis (Orbifrons), 328. sinuata (HHermonassa), 357. sinuata (Sophaga), 107. sinuata (Timora), 107. siren (Heliothis), 67. siren (Lygrantheecia), 67. smithii (Agrotis), 403. snowt (Altdophron), 57. snowi (Thyreion), 57. sobrina (Mythimna), 607. sobrina (Noctua), 607. solani (Noctua), 626. solida (Agrotis), 665. solitaria ( Agrotis), 280. solitaria (HKuxoa), 280. sollers (Agrotis), 570. Sophaga, 103. sordescens (Agrotis), 564. sordescens (Lycophotia), 564. sordida (Schinia), 93. sordidus (Schinia), 93. sorella (Chorizagrotis), 312. sorella (Euxoa), 312 sorror (Agrotis), 311. Spelotis, 564. specialis (Agrotis), 204. speciosa (Aplectoides), 580. speciosa (Noctua), 580. speciosa, var. e@grota (Platagr otis), 580. speciosa, var. obscura ( Agrotis), 580. spectanda (Agrotis), 287. spectanda (Heliothis), 48. spergularie (Heliothis), spiculifera (Agrotis), 177 spilogramma (Valeria), 513. sptilomata (Agrotis), 653. spilomata (Ketopatria), 658. spilota 359. epilota( Ochropleura), 359. spina (Agrotis), 367. spinifera (Agrotis), 833. spinifera (Kuxoa), ‘V7. spinifera (Noctua), 177 spinosa ( Agrotis), 333. spinoses (Eupanychis), See spinose (Heliothis), 82, 94. spina (Bombyx), 868 (Hermonassa), ALPHABETICAL INDEX. spinula (Telmia), 177. spissa (Agrotis), 256, 665. splendens (Adisura), 111. spoderopa (Agrotis), 192. spoderopa (Euxoa), 192. spodia (Agrotis), 541. sponsa (Agrotis), 217. sponsa (Euxoa), 217. spraquet (Anthecia), 92. spreta (Lycophotia), 575. spreta (Noctua), 575. squalida (Agrotis), 293, 457. squalidior ( Agrotis), 326. sgualorum (Agrotis), 326. stabulorum (Agrotis), 459. staudingeri(Agrotiphila), 133. staudingert 138, 658. steviaris (Agrotis), 615. stellaris (urois), 615. Stenagrotis, 159, stenistis(Hucoptocnemis), 463, stentsi (Agrotis), 388. stentzt (Agrotis), 388 stictica (Agrotis), 480. stictica (Spelotis), 536. stigmatia (Raghuya), 29. stigmatica (Noctua), 411. stigmatilis (Carneades), =) stigmatilis (Huxoa), 222. stigmosa (Agrotis), 34%. straminea (Adisura), 121. straminea (Episilia), 474. straminea (Heliothis), 474. straminea (Phalena), 48. stridula ( Agrotis), 498. stridula (Episilia), 498. strigata (Tripseuxua), 139. strigthasis (Agrotis), 149. strigibasis (Micragrotis), 149. strigilis (Agrotis), 307. strigilis (Euxoa), 507. strigula (Noctua), 524. stupenda (Agrotis), 392. stupenda (Ochropleura), 392. stupens (Noctua), 392. suavis (Hpisilia), 504. suavis (Ammogrotis), 504. suavis (Hrythro phaia), 663. subalba (Agrotis), 169. subalba (Euxoa), 169. subcerulea (Agrotis), 365, 25a; (Agqrotis), subconspicua (Agrotis), 233. subcorticalis (Noctua), 452. subcorticea (Agrotis), oul. subdecora (Agrotis), 233 494. subdecora (Huxoa), 255. subdolens (Cerastis), 4138, 423. subflavidens ( Copable- pharon), 118. suhfleva (Aspila), 48. subgothica (Agrotis), 343. subgothica (Feitia), 345. subgothica (Noctua), 545. subgrisea (Agrotis), 592. sublatis (Agrotis), 273. submolesta (Agi -otis), PANSY submolesta (Kuxoa), 215. submuscosa (Agrotis), 666. subnigra (Orthosia), 379. subplumbea (Agrotts), 5O7. subplumbea (Hpisilia), 507. subporphyra (Agrotis), 450. suhpor phyrea (Mythim- na), 450. subpurpur ea pleura), 395. subrectangula (Noctua), 445. subrosea (Agrotis), 364 subrosea (Graphiphora), 364. (Ochro- subrujescens (Agrotis), 653. subrufeseens (Ecto- patria), 655. subrufa (Noctua), 491. subsequa (Noctua), 385, 386. subsignata (Agrotis), 285. subspinifera (Huxoa), 205. substrigata (Agrotis), 439. substrigata (Noctua), 489. succinea (Heliothis), 47. suevica (Agrotis), 442. sueta (Heliothis), 21. suetus (Heliothis), 21. suffusa (Agrotis), 524 suffusa (Noctua), 368. suffusa, var. pepoli (Aqro- tis), 368. sulcifera (Agrotis), 664. sulmula ( Heliothis), 76. summa (Elegarda), 165. superba (Agrotis), 569. syrticola (Hebdomochon- dra), 117. tedata (Pseudoglea), 608. talda (Agrotis), 454. talda (Ochropleura), 454. tamerlana (Agrotis), 541. tamerlana (lLycophotia), 541. Tamila, 72. tanena (Lygranthecia ?), 63. tanena( Schinit), 63. tarda. Avrotis), 424. tarda Noctua), 424. tecta (Kpisilia), 488. tecta (Noctua), 488. teleboa ( Curneades), 261. teleboa (Euxoa), 261. telifera (Agrotis), 287. Telmia, 153. temperata 307. temperata (Amathes), O17. temperata (Heliothis), 47. tenebrifera (Hurois), 614. tenehrifera (Hadena), 614. tenebrosa (Mamestra), 367 tenuescens (Lycophotia), 565. tenuescens (Lygran- thecia), 77. tenuescens (Peridroma), 565. tenuescens (Schinia), 77. tenuicola (Agrotis), 402. tenuis (Anchocelis), 492. tenuis (Hpisilia), 492. tenwistria ( Canthylid ia), 98. tephra ( Agrotis), 267. ltephrias (Agrotis), 192. tephrias (Huoxa), 192. tephrina (Agrotis), 17). tepperi (Agrotis), 450. tergemina (Aspila), 48. termessa (Huxoa), 231. termessus ( Carneadcs), ZBI ternaria (Huxoa), 269. ternarius (Curneades), 269. terracotta (Masalia), 113. terracotta (Timora), 113, terranea (Agrotis), 245, (Agrotis), ALPHABETICAL INDEX, terrealis (Agrotis), 314. terrealis (Huxoa), 514. terrena (EHuxoa), 258. terrenus (Carneades), 258. terrifica (Episilia), 487. terrifica (Setagrotis), 487. territorialis (Carneades), 263. territorialis (Euxoa), 2638. tertia (Schinia), 86. tertia (Tamila), 86. tessellata ( Agrotis), 285 tessellata (Huxoa), 285. tesselloides (Agrotis), 502. tesselloides (Huxoa), 302. testula (Carneades), 236. testula (Euxoa), 236. tetra (Lepipolys), 274. tetragona (Noctua), +19. Tetrapyrgia, 153. tetrica (Agrotis), 230. tetrica (Euxoa), 230. texana ( Carneades), 222, texana (Porosagrotis), 146. tevxanus (Agrotis), 146. thianschanica (Agrotis), 259. thoi eaui (Anthecia), 69. thoreaui (Lygrantheecia), 69. thulei (Agrotis), 491. Thyreion, 57. tibetana (Agrotis), Bile tibetana (Episilia), 477. tibetana (Huxoa), 18%. tibiata (Agrotis), 379. Timora, 1U3. tincta (Agrotis), 429. tincta (Graphiphora), 429. tiniloides (Episilia), 512. tiniloides (Leucania), 512. titubatis (Carneades), 289. titubatis (Huxoa), 259. t-nigrum (Huxoa), 325. t-nigruim ( Orthodes), a8 20. tocionis (Agrotis), 37( tocoye ( Carneades), ee. tocoyx (Huxoa), 237. tokionis (Agrotis), 370. tosta (Masalia), 115. tosta (Timora), 115. totonaca ( Noctua), 634. totonaca (‘Tripheena), 634. toxistigma (Lycophotia), 549. trabalis (Agrotis), 588. 189, 687 transiens (Agrotis), 546. transjecta (Agrotis), 450. translucens (Chloridea), 36. translucens (Heleocheilus), 36. transvalica 114. transversa (Agrotis), 665. transversa ( Noctua), 172. transylvanica (Agrotis), 287. treati (Agrotis), 398 (Timora), trianguaris (Ochro- pleura), 388. triangulum (Agrotis), 399. triangulum (Phalena), 399. Trichanarta, 10. Trichorthosia, 601. Trichopis, 72. tricosa (Agrotis), 345. trifascia (Schinia), 79. trifasciata (Agrotis), 243. trifasciata (Huxoa), 243. trifasciata (Timora), 110. trifida (Euxoa), 159. trifida (Noctua), 159. trifurca (Agrotis), 171. trifurca (Huxoa), 171. trifurcula (Agrotis), 169. trifurcula (Huxoa), 169. trigona (Rhynchagrotis), 640. trigona (Triphena), 640. trigonalis (Noctua), 170. trigonica (Agrotis), 431. Trilewea, 72. tripars (Kucoptocnemis), 465. tripars (Mythymna), 465. Tripheena, 622, Tripseuxva, 139. triseriata (Axylia), 452. trisignata (Agrotis), 437. tristicula (Agrotis), 275. tristicula (Huxoa), 273. tristigma (Graphiphora), 411. tristigma (Noctua), 400. tristis (Agrotis), 665. tristis (Noctua), 510. tritict (Aqgrotis), 310. tritici (Huxoa), 295. tritici (Noctua), 293. tronella (Euxoa), 282, 661. tronellus (Carneades), 232, 661. 169, 688 truculenta (Agrotis), 549. truculenta (Lycophotia), 549, trumani (Noctua), 666. trux (Huxoa), 245. trux (Noctua), 245. Trypana, 1d. tuberculum theecia), 66. tuberculum(Melicleptria), 66. turana (Agrotis), 578. turatit (Agrotis), 175. turbans (Agrotis), 331. turbans (Euxoa), 331. turbulenta (Agrotis), 164. turris (Agrotis), 29U. typhlina (Agrotis), 470. typhlina (Episilia), 470. typica (Nenia), 619. typica (Noctua), 619. typica (Pronoctua), 642. (Lygran- Ufeus, 583. ultima (Heliothis), 62. ultima (Lyranthecia), 62. umbra (Agrotis), 372. umbra (Noctua), 407. umbratus (Agrotis), 507. umbrifera (Agrotis), 574. umbrifera (Lycophotia), O74. umbrosa 654. umbrosa (Noctua), 415. umbrosus (Heliothis), 45. uncta (Adisura), 109. uncta (Timora), 109. anetus (Heliophobus), 156. undosa (Agrotis), 635. undosa (‘Tripheena), 635. undulans (Spelotis), 570. unicolor (Agrotis), 441. unicolor (Mamestra), 441. unicolor (Ufeus), 585. unifasciata (Agrotiphila), 151. unifasciata (Amphidusis), 131. uniformis (Heliothis), 45. unimacula (Agrotis), 40d, 458. unimacula (Schinia), 87. ursina (Noctua), 249. (Ectopatria), vaccinise (Heliothis), 21. vaccinie (Melicleptria), 21. ALPHABETICAL INDEX, vacillans (Agrotis), 267. vaga (Agrotis), 248. valdensis (Agrotis), 461. valida (Graphiphora), 455. vallesiaca (Agrotis), 326, 568. vallesiaca (Lycophotia), 568. vallesiaca (Spelotis), 511. valligera (Noctua), 170. vallus (Carneades), 242. vallus (Euxoa), 242. yalsinghami (Schinia), vancouverensis (Agrotis), 348. vancouverensis (Feltia), 348. vanella (Pseudotamila), 27. vanella (Tamila), 27. vanidiea (Euxoa), 297. vanidicus (Carneades), 297. vapularis (Agrotis), 347. varia (Agrotis), 293, 552. varia ( Graphiphera), 480. variabilis (Pseudortho- sia), 466. vartago (Hiptelia), 594. variata (Agrotis), 637. variata (Triphena), 637. variicollis (Noctua), 479. varix (Agrotis), 637. vastator ( Agrotis), 367. velaris (Tamila), 88. velata (Agrotis), 438. velata (Graphiphora), 638. velleripennis (Agrotis), 220. velleripennis (Huxoa), 220. velum (Agrotis), 516. venerabilis (Agrotis), 338. venerabilis (lH eltia). 338. venosa (Aidophron), 54. venosa (Noctua), 619. venusta (Melicleptria), 23. verecunda (Agrotis), 327. vernilis (Agrotis), 590. vernilis (Anomogyna), 590. versipellis (Agrotis), 804. verticalis (Agrotis), 287. verticalis (Euxoa), 257. yestermanni (Euxoa), 301. vestigialis (Euxoa), 170. vestigialis (Noctua), 17V. vetula (Mythimna), 606. vetula (Polia), 606. vetusta (Agrotis), 665. vetusta (Kuxoa), 274. vetusta (Mamestra), 274. vetusta (Mythimna), 145. yetusta (Porosagrotis), 145. vibora (Agrotis), 404. vicaria (Ochropleura), 405. vidua (Agrotis), 395. vigurea (Agrotis), 601. vigurea (Huxoa), 661. vilis (Noctua), 249. villiersti (Agrotis), 182. villosa (Heliothis), 20. villosa (Melicleptria), 20. vilsoni (Euxoa), 204. violacea (Tiracola), 608. violaris (Agrotis), 372. violetta (Agrotis), 502. violetta (Episilia), 502. viralis (Agrotis), 656. viralis (Protagrotis), 655, 656. virens (Eurois), 618. virescens (Chloridea), 48. virescens (Noctua), 48. viridescens (Xanthia), 48. viridis (Isochlora), 129. viridis, var. maxima (Lso- chlora), 128, viridis, var. viridissima (Isochlora), 129. viscotti (Hpisilia), 505. vitta (Huxoa), 298. vitta (Noctua), 208. vittata (Agrotis), 476. vittata (Kpisilia), 476. vittifrons (Noctua), 683. vittifrons (Triphna), 655. vocalis (Agrotis), 588. yocalis (Lycupbotia), 538. voccei (Kpisilia), 498. volubilis ( Agrotis), 349. volubilis (Feltia), 849. volupia (Alaria), 59. volupia (Rhododipsa), ov. vulpina (Carneades), 235, vulpina (Euxoa), 286. vulpina (Graphiphora), 429, walsinghamt (Ligran- thecia), 88. washingtoniensis tis), 615. (Agro- westermanni (Agrotis), I wilsonti (Agrotis), 204. wiskotti (Agrotis), 505. wissenbornit (Noctua), 527. wockei (Agrotis), 498. worthingtoni (Agrotis), 465. axanthe (Noctua), 377. xanthiana (Isochlora), 658. xanthiata (Chloridea), 47. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. wvanthiata ( Heliothis), 47. xanthiodes (Kuxoa), 315. xanthographa (Agrotis), 419. axanthographa (Noctua), 419, wanthostola (Agrotis), 485. xanthostola 483. Xestia, 593. xestiodes (Richia), 596. wiphias (Agrotis), 351. xiphias (Feltia), 551. (Episilia), 689 xyliniformis (Carneades), 246. yaxcaba (Amathes), 561. yaxcaba (Lycophotia), 561. youngi (Hurois), 613. youngi (Semiophora), 613. ypsilon (Agrotis), 368, 408. ypsilon (Noctua), 368. zeituna (Agrotis), 572. zelleri (Agrotts), 591. PRINTED LY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. LIST OF THE CURRENT NATURAL HISTORY PUBLICATIONS OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The following publications can be purchased through the Agency of Messrs. 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[With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index to the 3 volumes.] 1896, 8vo. 1/. 6s. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. Albert Giinther. Pp. xvi., 281. [ With Geographic, Systematic, and Alphabetical Indexes. ] 1858, 12mo. 4s. BATRACHIANS, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. Albert Giinther. Pp. xvi., 160. 12 Plates. [With Systematic, Geographic, and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1858, 8vo. 6s. FISHES. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Second edition. Vol. I. Catalogue of the Perciform Fishes in the British Museum. Vol. I. Containing the Centrarchide, Percide, and Serranide (part). By George Albert Boulenger, F.R.S. Pp. xix., 394. Woodcuts and 15 Plates. ue Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1895, 8vo. lds. Catalogue of Fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum. Pp. vii., 196. [With a Systematic Index.] 1854, 12mo. 3s. 6d. 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List of the Shells of South America in the Collection of the British Museum. Collected and described by M. Alcide D’Orbigny in the “ Voyage dans Amérique Méridionale.” Pp. 89. 1854, 12mo. 2s. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan -Shells in the British Museum, collected by Frederick Reigen. Described by Philip P. Carpenter. Pp. xvi., 552. 1857, 12mo. 8s. List of Mollusca and Shells in the Collection of the British Museum, collected and described by MM. Eydoux and Souleyet in the “Voyage autour du Monde, exécuté “pendant les années 1836 et 1837, sur la Corvette ‘La * Bonite,’” and in the “ Histoire naturelle des Mollusques “ Ptéropodes.” Par MM. P. C. A. L. Rang et Souleyet. Pp: iv.,21.. 1855, 12mo. 8d. Catalogue of the Phaneropneumona, or Terrestrial Operculated Mollusca, in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. L. Pfeiffer. Pp. 324. [With an Alphabetical Index. ] 1852, 12mo. 5s. Catalogue of Pulmonata, or Air Breathing Mollusca, in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. By Dr. Louis Pfeiffer. Pp. iv., 192. Woodcuts. 1855, 12mo. 2s. 6d. Catalogue of the Auriculide, Proserpinide, and Truncatellide in the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. Louis Pfeiffer. Pp. iv., 150. Woodcuts. 1857, 12mo. ls. 9d. List of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum. By John Edward Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., &e. Part II. Olivide. Pp. 41. 1865, 12mo. ls. Catalogue of the Conchifera, or Bivalve Shells, in the Collection of the British Museum. By M. Deshayes :— Part I. Veneride, Cyprinide, Glauconomide, and Petricolade. Pp. iv., 216. 1853, 12mo. 3s. Part II. Petricoladz (concluded); Corbiculade. Pp. 217-292. [With an Alphabetical Index to the two parts.] 1854, 12mo. 6d. 10 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE BRACHIOPODA. Catalogue of Brachiopoda Ancylopoda or Lamp Shelis in the Collection of the British Museum. [Jsswed as “ Catalogue of the Mollusca, Part IV.”] Pp. iv., 128. 25 Woodeuts. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1853, 12mo. 3s. POLYZOA. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum. Part III. Cyclostomata. By George Busk, F.R.S. Pp. viii., 39. 38 Plates. [With a Systematic Index.] 1875, 8vo. 5s. CRUSTACEA. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. By C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., &c. Pp. iv., 399. 58 Plates. [With an Alpha- betical Index.] 1862, 8vo. 17. 5s. ARACHNIDA. Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma, based upon the Collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. By T.. Thorell. Pp. xxxvi., 406. [With Systematic List and Alphabetical Index.] 1895, svo. LOs. 6d. INSECTS. Coleopterous Insects. Nomenclature of Coleopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum :— Part VI. Passalide. By Frederick Smith. Pp. iv., 23. 1 Plate. [With Index.] 1852, 12mo. 8d. Part VII. Longicornia, I. By Adam White. Pp. iv., 174. 4 Plates. 1853, 12mo. 2s. 6d. Part VIII. Longicornia, Il. By Adam White. Pp. 237. 6 Plates. 1855, 12mo. 3s. 6d. Part IX. Cassididz. By Charles H. Boheman, Professor of Natural History, Stockholm. Pp. 225. [With Index.] 1856, 12mo. 3s. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Coleoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Lycide. By Charles Owen Waterhouse. Pp. x., 83. 18 Coloured Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes. ] 1879, 8vo. 16s. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 11 Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of Madeira in the Collection of the British Museum. By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. Pp. xvi., 234: 1 Plate. [With a Topographical Catalogue and an Alphabetical Index. ] 1857, 8vo. 3s. Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum. By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. Pp. xiii, 648. [With Topo- graphical and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1864, Svo. 10s. 6d. Catalogue of Halticide in the Collection of the British Museum. By the Rev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., F.L.S. Physapodes and (Hdipodes. Part J. Pp. xii. 301. Frontispiece and 9 Plates. 1860, 8vo. 7s. Catalogue of Hispidze in the Collection of the British Museum. By Joseph 8. Baly, M.E.S.,&¢. Part I. Pp.x., 172. 9 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1858, dSvo. 6s. Hymenopterous Insects. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. By Frederick Smith. 12mo, :— Part I. Andrenide and Apide. Pp. 197. 6 Plates. 1853, 2s. 6d. Part II. Apide. Pp. 199-465. 6 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1854. 6s. Part III. Mutillidz and Pompilide. Pp.206. 6 Plates. 1855. 6s. Part IV. Sphegide, Larride, and Crabronide. Pp. 207- 497. 6 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1856. 6s. Part V. Vespide. Pp.147. 6 Plates. [With an Alpha- betical Index.] 1857. 6s. Part VI. Formicide. Pp. 216. 14 Plates. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1858. 6s. Part VII. Dorylide and Thynnide. Pp. 76. 3 Plates. [ With an Alphabetical Index.] 1859. 2s. List of Hymenoptera, with descriptions and figures of the Typical Specimens in the British Museum. Vol. L., Tenthredinide and Siricide. By W. F. Kirby. Pp. xxviii., 450. 16 Coloured Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1882, 8vo. 1/. 18s. Dipterous Insects. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. By Francis Walker, F.L.S. Part VII. Supplement III. Asilide. Pp. ii., 507-775. 1855, 12mo.. 3s. 6d. 12 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE A Monograph of the Culicidz, or Mosquitoes. Mainly com- piled from the Collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the Investigation into the cause of Malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A., &c. :— Vols. L., Il. (pp. xviii., 424; viii., 391 : 318 woodcuts), and Atlas of 37 coloured and 5 collotype plates (pp. viii., with explanations of plates). 1901, 8vo. 3/. 3s. Vol. III. 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Catalogue of the Arctiade (Arctiane) and Agaristidz in the Collection of the British Museum. Pp. xix. 690. 294 woodcuts. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1901, 8vo. 15s. Atlas of 19 Coloured Plates (xxxvi-liv.), 8vo. 16s. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum :— : Part V. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. xii., 74. 78-100 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic Index. ] 1881, 4to. 27. 10s. Part VI. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. xv., 89. 101-120 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic Index. ] 1886, 4to. 27. 4s. Part VII. By Arthur Gardiner Butler. Pp. iv., 124. 121-138 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic List. ] 1889, 4to. 27. Part VIII. The Lepidoptera Heterocera of the Nilgiri District. By George Francis Hampson. Pp. iv., 144. 139-156 Coloured Plates. [With a Systematic List.] 1891, 4to. 27. 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Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria [Part I.] and Supplement to the Blattarize in the Collection of the British Museum. Gryllide. Blattarix. Locustide. By Francis Walker, F.L.S., &. Pp. 224. [With an Alpha- betical Index.] 1869, 8vo. 5s. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. By Francis Walker, F.L.S., &e.— Part II. Locustidee (continued). Pp. 225-423. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1869, 8vo. 4s. 6d. Part III. Locustide (continued).—Acridide. Pp. 425- 604. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1870, 8vo. 4s. Part IV. Acridide (continued). Pp. 605-809. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1870, 8vo. 6s. Part V. Tettigide.—Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariz.—Supplement to the Catalogue of Dermaptera Saltatoria (with remarks on the Geographical Distri- bution of Dermaptera). Pp. 811-850; 43; 116. [With Alphabetical Indexes.] 1870, 8vo. 6s. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 15 Hemipterous Insects. 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Catalogue of Sea-pens or Pennatulariide in the Collection of the British Museum. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &. Pp. iv., 40. 2 Woodcuts. 1870, 8vo. 1s. 6d. Catalogue of Lithophytes or Stony Corals in the Collection of the British Museum. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. Pp. iv., 51. 14 Woodcuts. 1870, 8vo. 3s. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) :— Vol. I. The Genus Madrepora. By George Brook. Pp. xi., 212. 35 Collotype Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes, and Explanation of the Plates.] 1893, 4to. 17. 4s. Vol. Il. The Genus Turbinaria; the Genus Astreopora. By Henry M. Bernard, M.A. Cantab., F.LS8., F.Z.8. Pp. iv., 106. 30 Collotype and 3 Lithographic Plates. [With Index of Generic and Specific Names, and Explanation of the Plates.] 1896, 4to. 18s. 16 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE Vol. III. The Genus Montipora; the Genus Anacro- pora. By Henry M. Bernard, M.A. Pp. vii., 192. 30 Collotype and 4 Lithographic Plates. 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[With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1885, 8vo. 6s. Part III. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborders Perissodactyla, Toxodontia, Condylarthra, and Ambly- poda. Pp. xvi.,186. 30 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1886, 8vo. 4s. Part IV. Containing the Order Ungulata, Suborder Proboscidea. Pp. xxiv., 235. 32 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1886, 8vo. 5s. Part V. Containing the Group Tillodontia, the Orders Sirenia, Cetacea, Edentata, Marsupialia, Monotremata, and Supplement. Pp. xxxv., 345. 55 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1887, Svo. 6s. Catalogue of the Fossil Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). By Richard Lydekker, B.A. Pp. xxvii., 368. 75 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1891, Svo. 10s. 6d. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). By Richard Lydekker, B.A,, F.G.S. :— Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Pro- terosauria. Pp. xxviii. 309. 69 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1888, 8vo. 7s. 6d. Part II. Containing the Orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia. Pp. xxi., 307. 85 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1889, 8vo. 7s. 6, 20 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE Part III. Containing the Order Chelonia. Pp. xviii., 239. 53 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1889, 8vo. 7s. 6d. Part IV. Containing the Orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodontia; and Supplement. Pp. xxiii., 295. 66 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index, Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species to the entire work.] 1890, 8vo. 7s. 6d. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). By Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &¢. :— Part I. Containing the Elasmobranchii. Pp. xlvii., 474, 13 Woodcuts and 17 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species. ] 1889, 8vo. 21s. Part II. Containing the Elasmobranchii (Acanthodii), HWolocephali, Ichthyodorulites, Ostracodermi, Dipnoi, and Teleostomi (Crossopterygii and Chondrostean Actinopterygii). Pp. xliv., 567. 58 Woodcuts and 16 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species.] 1891, Svo. 21s. Part III. Containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the Orders Chondrostei (concluded), Protospondyli, Aetheospondyli, and Isospondyli (in part). Pp. xlii., 044. 45 Woodcuts and 18 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species. ] 1895, 8vo. 21s. Part IV. Containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the Suborders’ Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. Pp. xxxix., 636. 22 Woodcuts and 19 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species.] 1901, 8vo. 21s. Systematic List of the Edwards Collection of British Oligocene and Eocene Mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. By Richard Bullen Newton, F.G.S. Pp. xxviii., 365. [With table of Families and Genera, Bibliography, Correlation-table, Appendix, and Alphabetical Index.] 1891, 8vo. 6s. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). Part I. The Austra- lasian Tertiary Mollusca. By George F. Harris, F.G.S., &c. Pp. xxvi., 407. 8 Plates. [With Table of Families, Genera, and SubGenera, and Index.] 1897, 8vo. 10s. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 21 Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History) :— Part I. Containing part of the Suborder Nautiloidea, con- sisting of the families Orthoceratide, Endoceratide, Actinoceratide, Gomphoceratide, Ascoceratide, Poterioceratidz, Cyrtoceratide, and Supplement. By Arthur H. Foord, F.G.S. Pp. xxxi., 344. 51 Woodcuts. [| With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms.] 1888, dvo. 10s. 6d. Part Il. Containing the remainder of the Suborder Nautiloidea, consisting of the families Lituitide, Trochoceratidee, Nautilide, and Supplement. By Arthur H. Foord, F.G.8. Pp. xxviii., 407. 86 Wood- cuts. [With Systematic Index, and Alphabetical Index of Genera and Species, including Synonyms. | 1891, 8vo. 15s. Part 1II. Containing the Bactritide, and part of the Suborder Ammonoidea. By Arthur H. Foord, Ph.D., F.G.S., and George Charles Crick, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. Pp. xxxiii., 303. 146 Woodcuts. [With Systematic Index of Genera and Species, and Alphabetical Index. | 1897, 8vo. 12s. 6d. List of theTypes and Figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History). By G. C. Crick, ¥.G.S. Pp. 103. [With Index.] 1898, 8vo. 2s. 6d. A Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea, with their Synonyms and the Range in Time of each Genus and Order. By Henry Woodward, F.R.S. Pp. xii. 155. [With an Alphabetical Index.] 1877, 8vo. 5s. Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History) :— The Jurassic Bryozoa. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.G.S., F.Z.S. Pp. [viii.,] 239 : 22 Woodcuts and 1] Plates. [ With List of Species and Distribution, Bibliography, Index, and Explanation of Plates.] 1896, Svo. 10s. The Cretaceous Bryozoa. Vol. I. By J. W. Gregory, D.Sce., F.G.S., F.Z.S. . Pp. xiv., 457: 64 Woodcuts and 17 Plates. [With Index and Explanation of Plates.] 1899, Svo. 16s. 22 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), with an account of the morphology and systematic position of the group, and a revision of the genera and species. By Robert Etheridge, jun., of the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History), and P. Herbert Carpenter, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S. (of Eton College). Pp. xv.,322. 20 Plates. [With Preface by Dr. H. Woodward, Table of Contents, General Index, Explanations of the Plates, &c.] 1886, 4to. 25s. The Genera and Species of Blastoidea, with a List of the Specimens in the Britis: Museum (Natural History). By F. A. Bather, M.A., F.G.S., of the Geological Department. Pp. x. 40. L Woodcut. .1899; Svo. as. Catalogue of the Paleozoic Plants in the Department of Geology and Paleontology, British Museum (Natural History). By Robert Kidston, F.G.S. Pp. viii., 288. [With a list of works quoted, and an Index.] 1886, Svo. 5s. Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). By A. ©. Seward, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., University Lecturer in Botany and Fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge :— Part I. The Wealden Flora. Part I. Thallophyta— Pteridophyta. Pp. xxxviii., 179. 17 Woodeuts and 11 Plates. [With Preface by Dr. Woodward, Alpha- betical Index, Explanations of the Plates, &e.] 1894, Svo. 10s. Part II. The Wealden Flora. Part II. Gymnosperme. Pp. viii., 259. 9 Woodcuts and 20 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, Explanations of the Plates, &c. ] 1895, 8vo. 15s. Part III. The Jurassic Flora. Part I. The Yorkshire Coast. Pp. xii, 341. 53 Woodcuts and 21 Plates. [ With Preface by Dr. Woodward, Alphabetical Index Explanations of the Plates, &c.] 1900, 8vo. 20s. GUIDE-BOOKS. (To be obtained only at the Museum.) A General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road, London, 5.W. With 31 Woodcuts, 2 Plans, 2 views of the building, and an illustrated cover. Pp. 97. 1901, 8vo. 38d. (Out of print during revision.) Guide to the Galleries of Mammalia in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History). 7th Edition. Pp. 126. 65 Woodcuts and 4 Plans. Index. 1902, Svo. 6d. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 2d Guide to the Galleries of Reptiles and Fishes in the Depart- ment of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History). 4th Edition. Pp. iv.,119. 101 Woodcuts. Index. 1898. 8vo. 6d. (Out of print.) Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Mchinoderma, and Worms), Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. Pp. iv., 180. 125 Woodcuts, Plan, and Indexes. 1901, 8vo. 6d. Guide to the Coral Gallery (Protozoa, Porifera or Sponges, Hydrozoa, and Anthozoa) in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. [iv.,] 7. 82 Illustrations, Plan, and Index, 1902, 8vo. 1s. 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[With List of Illustrations, Table of Stratified Rocks, and Introduction.] 1897, 8vo. bd. Part II. Insecta to Plants, &c. Pp. ix., 64*-158. Woodcuts 108-182. [With List of Illustrations and Index to the two parts.] 1897, Svo. 6d. Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi in the Depart- ment of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). By Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S. Pp. 82. 93 Woodcuts. With Table of Diagnostic Characters, and Index. [Second Edition.] 1898, 8vo. 4d. Guide to the British Mycetozoa exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). By Arthur Lister, F.L.S. Pp. 42. 44 Woodcuts. Index. 1903, 8vo.j3d. 24 BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS (NATURAL HISTORY). A Guide to the Mineral Gallery of the British Museum (Natural History). [By L. Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S.]- Pp. 32. Plan. 1903, 8vo. 1d. The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals, British Museum (Natural History). [By L. Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S.] Pp. 32. 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